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CITY GIRL FARMING | Sustainable Living for Regular People

Olivia's Chicken Makeover!

01/25/2012 By Kerrie

This week I found a white egg in the nest box! Hurray! Olivia is officially done molting.  I know this because she’s my only white egg layer. It’s been a couple months since I’ve seen a white egg out there…she’s been too busy with her chicken makeover to worry about laying eggs!

The poor girl was hardest hit in this fall’s molting process. For a while she was almost naked. She looked pretty scraggly. I gave her extra treats. I fed her yogurt and scrambled eggs. And when she was shivering, I even made her a little chicken sweater to keep her warm.

Now she’s finally back to laying eggs. And she’s looking quite smashing in her new shiny feathers! I think she must think so, too. She’s been strutting around like a girl who’s been on a shopping spree. She’s looking fine and she knows it.

I’ve still got a couple of naked-butted chickens out in the coop, but slowly, egg production is picking up again as they all make it over the molting hump. It’s got to be a lot of work, growing a whole new set of feathers every year. I think my girls like it, though; they’re quite fond of the extra treats and high protein breakfasts they get while molting.

Such spoiled chickens. It’s probably a good thing that I’ve only got 9 of them.

Olivia last summer.

 
The New Olivia…molting done..shiny and new.

 

Filed Under: Chickens Tagged With: chicken treats, chickens, molting

Kerrie

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