Chicken bald back

[nin-chicken]

Looking for some advice please...

My girls were last wormed in may so are due to be done again. I was going to do it a couple of weeks ago but then one chicken was ill & not eating so I waited... Then she got better so I was going to do it but then I noticed piles of feathers everywhere and the same chicken is now moulting! The other two don't seem to have started their moult. So should I wait? Or flubenvet them anyway? I'm worried if I wait for all 3 to finish moulting that the worming will be long overdue!

What to do????

[jimnpaula]

I would wait. It won't do them any harm to delay the worming until they've finished. I say this because I lost Jet during worming when she was having a particularly heavy moult and my theory is that she just couldn't cope with two things stressing her system at the same time.

Just my opinion, others may have a more scientific explanation.

[Cat tails]

The children's petting zoo, where my chickens were in boarding, only worms once a year and he has loads of fowl running around.

So waiting a bit longer will most likely be fine.

[The Dogmother]

I'd wait - it's not urgent that they are wormed, but moulting in itself is enough of a burden on their systems.

[nin-chicken]

Thank you all so much for your replies. I will wait to worm. Hopefully there will be a gap before another one starts moulting!

Alice x