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Chicken tail feathers?

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Hey there, fellow chicken enthusiasts! 🐔✨ So, you’ve welcomed some cluck-tastic silver laced Orpingtons into your life—how egg-citing! But it sounds like one of your feathered friends is sporting a bit of a tail feather dilemma. No tail feathers and a social butterfly? Maybe she’s just the rooster's prized hen! Let’s dive into this feathered mystery together and figure out if there’s anything to be concerned about or if she’s just living her best chicken life. 🥚💖
Chicken tail feathers?
Chicken tail feathers?

Hey everyone, we got a few chickens about a month ago now. They are silver laced orphingtons, 6 hens and a rooster. We got them just after they started laying so they are still young.

One of the hens (light brown) seems to have little to no tail feathers, or they are pressed down constantly. They have been like this since they arrived. She is not egg bound either. We are new chicken owners so I’m wondering if we should be worried? She’s still first one to the food and pretty vocal and social so she seems fine in that regard.

Is she just the roosters favourite perhaps?😅

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