ok this past spring I got 5 gals off of a friend of ours... the girls I'm not sure on age but I'm thinking about 3 years old... When we first got them and all summer we were getting 2-4 eggs per day from them...
Then about the beginning of august the girls started molting... and stopped laying eggs... ok I'm thinking they will molt about a month or so then start laying again... mean while our new babies started laying and are each laying an egg per day still even though it's getting cold! But the older gals still look kinda scraggly and haven't laid anything!
So question is... how long to birds typically molt and when will they start laying again? I know they are older they are eastereggers... But I figured they would still lay something every now and then... right now it's been almost 3 months... They all look healthy other than the scraggly feathers no mites or anything...
Then about the beginning of august the girls started molting... and stopped laying eggs... ok I'm thinking they will molt about a month or so then start laying again... mean while our new babies started laying and are each laying an egg per day still even though it's getting cold! But the older gals still look kinda scraggly and haven't laid anything!
So question is... how long to birds typically molt and when will they start laying again? I know they are older they are eastereggers... But I figured they would still lay something every now and then... right now it's been almost 3 months... They all look healthy other than the scraggly feathers no mites or anything...