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[jellykelly]

And it's only taken 11 months. We rescued 5 ex batts back in january and 3 out of 5 thrived and grew feathers very quickly. One died in august - she never recovered from the battery farm and always looked unwell - so much so that her nickname became sicknote.

The final exbatt (nicknamed skanky) has laid throughout but didn't really grow any feathers back - she always looked ragged and 'chewed', for want of a better word.

Finally though, after all these months - she's fully feathered! She had a moult and back has grown some lovely ginger feathers. I'm just hoping she stays that way now. Very pleased - to look at them all now, you'd never know they were battery hens.

[Patricia W]

It's wonderful when they do get their feathers back isn't it? You feel that they are " real" chickens again. I'm constantly amazed how beautiful they look - and how they looked when they came.

[Snoxy]

Only collected my 5 ex batts on the 12th and already I can see feathers sprouting around their necks...amazing...just love them

[sage]

When I got my girls in May. All but Mavis feathered up quickly. Mavis grew a few on her neck but not many, she is having a massive moult at the moment and looks a right state but I can see new feathers poking out. i just know she will be stunning when all her blond feathers are through.

 

Sage

[dancing cloud]

It's so lovely when they look all fit and well and hard to remember what sad little things they looked at first until you see their photos again. I remember my second rescue were practically naked when they arrived and I had no idea what their colours would be. Within eight weeks they were well on their way to being fully-feathered pretty girls, but it was just as well they were not rescued when it was freezing.

 

All of my February rescue are fully-feathered except Little Chicken, who seems to be starting her moult now (only -11 here yesterday ). Lady, my very blonde girl, dropped the lot in early November and initially I teased her and told her she'd grow back brunette, but stopped because she seemed so upset at losing all her feathers. She even used to pick them up after they'd fallen out! Thankfully she grew back blonde, now has the most wonderfully plumed tail and seems very proud of herself again - vain little thing.

 

I'm hoping Saturday's rescued Christmas Chickens will feather up quickly. Holly's not missing many feathers and Mistletoe only really needs an undercoat and her tail, but Berry's going to be chilly round the rear for a while - bbrrr!

[skye]

Our rescue hen, Dorcas, had a bright red bald bottom when she came to us in November 2009, which refused to grow back all this year. The baldness was in a neat square shape so I suspect she may have had some dirty feathers shaved off by the BHWT or the farm before we got her.

 

She has moulted quietly and elegantly this autumn, finally growing the most beautiful fluffy ginger nickers in place of her bright red monkey bum, to keep her nether regions toasty this winter

 

AND she's the only one of six to be laying us beautiful brown eggs almost every day. AND the only one of our spoilt little madams who doesn't mind the snow and has great fun on her own digging away in it... the other spoilt little madams refuse to even put a foot out of the run, and stand there looking down their beaks at her

 

skye x