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For most chickens that hatched in the spring, that is probably true. But I've had chicks that hatched in February (early spring) that molted their first fall, when they were less than one year old.

What season is it where you live? In the spring, some hens go broody and sit on a nest trying to hatch eggs. Broody hens stop laying eggs while they are broody, and can take a while to start laying again after they are done being broody. In the fall, most hens molt (lose their feathers and...