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  1. C

    Molting or something else?

    I just noticed that one of my 1 year old hens has a bare spot on the front of her neck (apologies for the bad pics, she wasn’t very cooperative). I know that chickens usually molt in the fall, and they’re pretty young still too, not sure if this is an early molt or something else. None of my 5...
  2. M

    Entire flock not laying

    I have a mixed flock of 24 hens, 3 roosters. 16 of our hens are a year old and laying, 8 are still too young. We mix our own feed-same recipe each time and it is 20% protein. Throughout the winter, we were getting anywhere from 9-14 eggs/day. This past Saturday, we didn’t get any eggs. Sunday...
  3. Northern Henster

    Are hens supposed to be moulting in the dead of winter?

    I'm in Ontario, Canada, and for the past month or two, winter has been in full swing - nighttime lows of between -15C (5F) and -25C (-13F). The coop cools down to around -5C (23F) at night, but it's typically colder than that during the day (both inside and outside). There's also usually a...
  4. cluckcluckduck089

    Chickens not laying

    Hi! We have around 15 adult hens who have all suddenly stoped laying. Only a few are molting now and we don’t live somewhere that gets really cold. Our ducks also stopped laying a few weeks ago. Does anyone have any idea about what could be happening. Thanks
  5. A

    Is my chicken just molting?

    Hello My wee silkie (3 years old now) she's not lay me an egg in over 2 years for whatever reason. She's been fine the past few days and today i noticed she was so fluffed up and her bum dropped and she seemed a little unbalanced . She gave herself a good shake and loads of feathers came off -...
  6. exactlyzac

    Butt Feathers That Won’t Grow Back!

    My sweet girl Sunny is a 1 1/2 year old Frizzle / Showgirl Silkie, so the naked neck comes standard, but her butt feathers just won’t grow back in. Winter is coming and Chicago gets pretty cold so I’m worried for my girl. She looooves brooding in the box so I assumed that’s why her butt...
  7. CluckkyKrista

    Help - molt or mites?

    Hello all you lovely chicken-loving peeps, I’m hoping for some help caring for some of my girls. I noticed feather loss on two of them several weeks ago (mostly Matilda our 1yr old copper Maran and Ella our grey Easter Egger). I thought it might be a first molt initially (it’s spring here in Aus...
  8. Quacking ducks

    What’s wrong with my hen?

    My hen “Snuggle” has been molting for about 7 months, she keeps getting new feathers and then the feathers break off again. Her back looks like when a rooster mounts a hen a lot but I don’t have a rooster. Any ideas? Thanks
  9. Emrosenagel

    A few issues in the flock

    Hello! About a week ago I made a post about red globs and intestinal lining in poop. After that, a few more birds had intestinal lining and no more red globs. I had a fecal float done that came back negative for worms or cocci, but I decided to worm anyways since it may not have shown up. About...
  10. Emrosenagel

    Molting hen not acting normal

    Hello! I’ve got three hens at 1 1/4 years old. One hatched eggs a month ago and instantly went into a molt; she’s acting fine, busy with the chicks. One hasn’t started yet, and it’s the third, Rachel, that is acting off. About a week ago I noticed that her feathers were looking raggedy. Then I...
  11. C

    Molting or Mites (or Both)?

    The only girl left in my original flock is about 2.5 years old and has started losing a lot of feathers. Over the last week she started losing the down feathers on her body, and last night she lost some of her tail feathers. She does not seem to be following the typical pattern of feather loss...
  12. Fallenone05

    Early molting = bad winter?

    Not really sure where to put this thread but bear with me 🤣 My birds have always molted sometime between the tail end of August to November, when daylight really starts decreasing. This year it started in June. I thought maybe it was because of their age. They didn't molt last year due to...
  13. biscotti

    Feather damage - mites? During molt

    Hello! My runner boys have being going through molting the past couple of weeks, and one of them looks the roughest of all by a lot (he was like that as a duckling as well, so I think his default is to look like bad taxidermy unfortunately) BUT, yesterday I noticed what looked like lice in the...
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  14. FNF

    Runner duck feathers / eggs

    Feels like I've been posting questions about my ducks a lot recently :D. I have three ladies, about a year old this month. They've been very reliable layers with three eggs in the duck house each morning, up until the last two or three weeks or so. At first the drop seemed to be because one of...
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  15. LilHitzel

    Mites, Feather Pecking or a Molt?

    Mites, feather pecking or a molt? 5 out of 6 hens are losing feathes on their necks, heads, backends or stomachs. Their skin looks clean and mite-free under their feathers, they’re about a year old and we don’t have a rooster. All are laying semi-regularly, one lays soft eggs frequently. We...
  16. arstarr

    Incomplete Molt???

    One of my silver laced wyandottes started to molt and then quit midway though. She's often seen on her own so I think she is bullied. I separated her to give her time to grow her feathers in peace, but after a month of isolation she only managed to regrow the ones picked out on her back from...
  17. kanami

    tis the season!

    molting season 🪶 🥲 i swear it was more feathers than poop in the coop today when i went to clean it out;;
  18. H

    Feathers curling?

    My O Shamo rooster is going through his first molt, 5 to 6 months old, and some of the feathers are curled. Most are normal but if something is wrong I want to catch it right away. He is on a 17% all flock pellet feed. Pictures attached. Pics of full body so you see how most of his feathers look
  19. buffy-the-eggpile-layer

    Molting Hen Is Acting Poorly - Treatment Needed?

    My 4.5 y/o EE, Darla, is going through a pretty extreme molt. She's at the bottom of the pecking order and always pretty awkward, but is acting even more confused and flustered than usual, and is otherwise very low energy. This is normal for her during molts. However, I noticed the following...
  20. G

    Chickens are not laying

    Hi all! I am trying to get to the bottom of why my chickens aren't laying. Two of my steadfast layers (Black Sex Link and White Leghorn) never recovered after molt last fall. We finally butchered them a few weeks ago. In the last few days of her life, the leghorn was lethargic and her comb...
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