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An update! My rooster and his sister just had their first adult molts (18ish months) they looked very rough and they DID go off their feed. The hen lost a lot of weight and was very miserable. She's fine now. Feathers grew back very quickly but she dumped a lot of them all at once. She was fat...

Well my leghorn and orpington just moulted at 16 months old and it was nothing to write home about. They stopped laying for about 2-3 weeks and there were a lot of feathers laying around. They didn't look much worse for wear except their tails looking pretty rough, and they were cranky. My...

Mine don't stop eating, but I don't feed them only commercial feed so perhaps that is a factor. So far none of mine have had severe moults, axtually their moults have been pretty unremarkable and egg laying just reducing and not stopping. Although most of them are not yet 2 years old. The 4 that...