I live on a ranch in Az. north area, I was reading every one blogs or jernals I've got a chicken book with me now and I looked up Molting which is when a chicken will lose there feathers and do this a couple of times a year. I had a little Silkie who was always Molting she looked so rattie...
I have lost several chickens and am not sure what is killing them. The first death had no sign of injury, it was just laying there dead. We are thinking that the hawks are snapping the necks of the chickens. We have enclosed the run area with netting so that the hawks cannot get in to the pen to...