4m x 3m Omlet pen, cube, new auto door still boxed and coop light

[Baggins]

I wonder if anyone can help please .....

 

Our original Omlet girl, Pepper (now over 3 years old), has had a dreadful moult this year - her first ever. Not only does she look dreadful but she is behaving rather strangely .... doing a very odd impersonation of John Cleese's Monty Python walk, and often walking backwards with her neck down towards the ground.

 

In all other ways, she is behaving normally - eating, drinking, preening, scratching .....

 

Any ideas, please?

[Gamebird]

Send her for an audition to the Ministry of Silly Walks?

 

Sorry, I don't know a lot about moulting chickens but it could be her hormones are playing about and making her do funny things. If she is still eating and drinking and generally looking happy I probably wouldn't worry too much.

 

I know that protein is good for moulting chickens in the form of a tin of tuna to give her a bit of a boost and help her regain her duvet.