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When the molt is sudden and hard, the effects can be so severe, poor dears. Warmth (bad time of year for molt!), TLC, hand feeding, great nutrition, treats for raising spirits (live healthy mealworms may work when little else will), keeping them in a safe place so they can't hurt themselves...

Great news!!!! JJ

Your girl knows she's loved, and that helps JJ

Great to hear. Cold-ish today, tomorrow in our neck of the woods (NJ, PA) so she just needs warmth, nutrition (your usual TLC!) JJ

Poor dear. But a lucky one, to have you keeping such a close eye on her, and helping her through this terribly disconcerting time for her. JJ

That she is eating well is huge.............she just needs to be warm and as comfy as possible and thigs should get better soon JJ

Yeah, she's really having a tough one. Get poultry supplements in her water (e.g. Avia Charge 2000) and just keep at the hand feeding till some good foods find their way in to her. You are doing this, I'm sure, and it will make all the difference. Poor dear. It's such a disconcerting time for...

Yup, the molt. Hen Ellie does this when she has a hard molt. They need extra TLC at such times, great nutrition, extra protein, hand feeding in the event they are too loopy to eat enough (during the worst days Ellie would be too loopy to eat on her own), warmth, comfort, ..... - once the...