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Yeah, I've come upon this article a while ago too, but what didn't quite match up was the statement about "poor" layers equal early molters. I don't think I can expect my chickens to lay more than 1 egg per hen every day, can I? LOL Yet, they went into a molt after laying for only 3 months at...

If these are just mini-molts, I'm not looking forward to when they're going into their hard "real" molts They'll be running naked for months and freeze their little behinds off?

Quote: It didn't look like a mini-molt for the two that went through it starting at 6 months. They lost all their tail/wing/neck and head feathers. The polish was completely naked around her neck for a couple of weeks. As soon as they started molting, I gave them lots of extra protein in form...

Cathryn - that is very reassuring to hear that there are others out there with less than year old chickens that are molting and not laying for a long time. I was beginning to think that I have very strange chickens that aren't normal...LOL Maybe it's the Bay Area climate that makes those...

I have a total of 4 hens. 2 hens (a polish and an EE) that were born March 1 and 2 hens (an australorp and an EE) that were born at the end of March. All 4 of them started laying at 20-22 weeks. At the end of September when they were then 6 months old, the first born chickens stopped laying and...