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Quote: Maybe your parents got rid of them before they went into their molt. Lots of farmers do. It's not worth while (in their opinion) to feed hens that are not producing. Even for a little while. Nope. Got rid of the roos, yes. (We had a little bantam that kept EVERYONE in line!!) but we...

When I was a kid and we had chickens, I never noticed any of them going through a hard molt, ours never stopped laying, and they all free-ranged. I've heard about those hard molts though! I wonder if there's a molting difference for free-rangers and chickens that are penned. (Mine have a big...