So now I"m wondering--I can tell an extreme molt but sometimes they seem to all 'molt' (I see a whole lot of feathers in the coop, like a pillow fight gone bad) but then it seems to stop and they don't seem to lose the big feathers. My roo lost all his tail feathers and no more, like something...
Mye girls are getting bare spots on their backs and sides, so I thought roo--but he's losing feathers, too, all his tail feathers are gone. I know I don't have parasites, I've been quite anal about that. My eggs have dropped from 4 -5 /day (for 5 hens) down to 0 -2/day. Several days in a row...