Speckles is still dropping feathers. She has a very pale comb and a short tail at the moment. Her two little feathers that stand up on her head have returned and her head has a lot more white than before she moulted.
Speckles with her little head feathers sticking up
Speckles has more white on her head than before she moulted
She has quite a white patch on her head
The girls do look funny when you catch them straight on
She seems to have been moulting for ages and she does get more white each year. She is a cute little girl.
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She’s my favourite .. But looks so sad .
She’s my favourite too (along with Emerald). She does look sad. Moulting seems to really knock her confidence and she isn’t her usual perky self. I will be glad when she is through it and back to normal.
She looks so different to when we saw her, I rather like her with all thoes much bigger white spots.
Aricana’s get bigger white spots after each moult and this is her second moult with us. They say that you can tell their age by how much white they have, the older they are the more white they will have.
There’s no doubt that she is one lovely bird; the last year seems to have passed so quickly, since her last moult. The difference in her comb is really amazing.
I think her comb varies more than any of the other girls. It’s gone from being the brightest and biggest to being so pale.
How old are your girls? Did you get Speckles as a pullet/young hen?
I have had Speckles for a year now and she was just in her first moult when I got her (July last year 2015) so I didn’t get her first eggs until this spring (March).
I got Toffee and Emerald the year before Speckles at the beginning of June 2014 and they were already a year old and I got Peaches and Barley at the end of June 2014 but they were only six weeks old.
This means that Toffee and Emerald are about three years old, Peaches and Barley are definitely two years old and Speckles is about a year and a half old.
So really you can say Speckles is about one year, Peaches and Barley, two years and Toffee and Emerald, three years.