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    Chicken may be losing her appetite

    One of our four hens - a three-year-old Barred Rock - doesn't want to eat when I release the hens from their coop at dawn, even though she always used to dig in right away with the other three as soon as they got out. Instead, she roams around the pen and even hides under the coop, making what...
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    Questions about a January molt

    Thanks for the info!
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    Questions about a January molt

    Thanks! That's reassuring.
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    Questions about a January molt

    My wife and I have a small flock of four hens in central Maine, including two Rhode Island Reds that are about a year old. One of the Reds has just started to molt. Is a late-season molt like this unusual? Should we do anything? We're coming out of a January thaw and heading back into cold...
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