One of my hens has begun to go through a bad moult while sitting on 5 eggs. She had plucked some feathers to line her nest box but when I opened the box this morning there were way to many feathers for this and when she came out of the box she looked awful, loose rough feathers everywhere. I haven't had this happen while breeding before. I have fostered her eggs to another hen and put her in a hospital cage. I've also rang the vet and he said that the avian vet isn't there until tomorrow and he admited not knowing very much about budgies and I should just keep doing what I was doing and ring again tomorrow.

 

I had a cock bird several weeks ago that went through a bad moult, he was all fluffed up and didn't look good, thought we would lose him but after a week in the hospital cage he was fine. Do you think my hen will come good too?

Bad time for her to be moulting... keep close watch on her. You are doing all the right things from what I can tell. Some of them take it quite hard. Have you any MOULTING AID you can use ?

I ended up taking her to the vet that night as she didn't look good and she died in the vet's hands :angel1:

It doesn't look like any of her eggs are going to hatch either but I'll give them another few days just to be sure

l'm sorry for your loss

Sorry for your loss atleast you tried your best, it was just bad timing