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  1. Barredrocker99

    Egg with no shell at all?

    Hey all! With the colder weather approaching, a couple of my girls are going through some pretty gnarly molting. One of my Easter eggers hasn’t been laying for the last couple weeks(I know this because she is the only one out of 16 chickens who lays very light brown eggs) due to her molt. Two...
  2. Barredrocker99

    Laying while molting?

    Hey all! With the colder weather approaching, a couple of my girls are going through some pretty gnarly molting. One of my Easter eggers hasn’t been laying for the last couple weeks(I know this because she is the only one out of 16 chickens who lays very light brown eggs) due to her molt. Two...
  3. P

    First Molt for 2 1/2 year old hens - and 6 month old joined them!

    We had never had a full molt with our 2 1/2 year olds (one leghorn, two red sex links) and they are nearly bald right now! Our 6 month old starlight green egger has joined them with a partial molt. No one is laying except for our one other starlight green egger. (They had both been laying one a...
  4. Crazy Duck Lover

    Wet Feather VS Molt

    I have noticed a change in my duck feathers and am wondering if it’s wet feather or a molt. My ducks are 7 1/2 months old and have never had an obvious health issues. Egg laying has stopped for the most part (I’m only getting one egg a day) so that makes me wanna think it’s a molt. I’ll attach...
  5. TOPChickens14

    Chickens not roosting during molt

    For the past few weeks several of my chickens have been molting, they're on the tail-end of the molt but there is one issue. Most of the molting chickens aren't roosting anymore. Some sleep in the nest boxes while a bunch sleep on the coop floor. This has been a pain because the coop is much...
  6. DuckDuckJuice

    How to break duck of egg-laying?

    Hi, again. I have a new question, this time about our Khaki Campbell. She has laid an egg every single day for over a year, even during molts. Her first molt was incomplete and she looked terrible for the bulk of this year. She has been in her current molt for over two months now and it doesn’t...
  7. thecarmiearmy

    Molting during a rainstorm

    Hello all, I live on the west coast, where we are getting hit with heavy rainfall and floods. My hen has been molting (growing her feathers back, currently) and lethargic. Yes, I figure she's tired from her body being in overdrive to grow those feathers back. We've been giving the chickens...
  8. chickenGrant

    Pecking out feathers STILL! HELP!

    Hey everyone, I am going to apologize in advance for how long and confusing this may be. Alright here we go… By the way these Chickens are just over one year old. So last winter (winter of 2020) is when it all started, I noticed a fair amount of feathers were missing on two out of the three...
  9. S

    Plucked feathers not growing back 3+ weeks

    So my male muscovy Jack broke off all of his tail feathers fighting with his brother (who we've since re-homed). I pinned him down and pulled about 8 or 9 out. A week later I pulled some more. I didn't want to pull the rest until I saw some growth. Now here it's been 3 weeks since I pulled the...
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  10. Anime2lover

    Do all cayuga ducks get some white when they molt?

    I just got two Cayuga ducklings. I thought they were supposed to be all black. But recently read that they gain some white when they molt. Is that true for all of them? Of so, how much white would they get for each molt??
  11. DuckDuckJuice

    Funky Eggs

    I have a question about eggs. Our girls (two SA, one Pekin, one KC) have all been molting and/or broody for the last two months. Two started laying again this past week and everything seems good. Today, we had three eggs in the nest. Two were normal, one was... wrinkly? I’m not sure how else to...
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  12. MenachemEliyahu

    Lethargic and underweight Leghorn

    I found one of my chicken lying on the ground. I can’t say exactly when she stopped laying but it seemed as if she was molting. She had lost all her tail feathers and her comb is pale. She is about 10 months I’ve noticed recently that she has been lethargic. When I took her out I could feel her...
  13. windexmultipurpose

    Molt or mites?

    Hello. I recently took in an injured bird and am wondering if the missing tail feathers are due to injury molt ot mites. I have attached pictures. She does seem to be scratching a lot but am unsure if that's due to molting mites or just regrowing injured feathers. Any advice? She has no visible...
  14. Hiyaherc

    Sick Hen

    Hello Everyone and Happy New Year, I have a sick 7 year old hen. Suzie in the fall went through a full molt. After she came out of the molt she went broody for the first time which we ended up disrupting since the eggs were not fertile. She was separated from the rest of the flock until she...
  15. Catbutts

    Is this molting??????

    Hi. My 11 months old Hybrid hen lose her chest feather since last month! Is this molting or some kind of disease? she doesn't show any sign of sickness and doing pretty well. Ps. She is a leader of the flock so I don't think it's pecking
  16. JamieMcClain

    Late molt!

    Ok my speckled Sussex has decided to molt. Problem is it’s less than 30 decrees F outside and there’s snow on the ground! I’m afraid she will get too cold! Is there anything I can do to help her? She’s a very skittish chicken so the least stress the better.
  17. QckQckWdlsWdsFieFiFoFum

    Molting Terribly???

    I had- til cop came-3 hens,rooster(it was bc of him discovering vocal box&apparently loved to hear himself sing to the others💗that I had to give away😭😭(given to me as chicks,I had no idea who was what),&2 ducks-also given to me as ducklings.But I visit them as much as I can bc I💜them&my heart...
  18. K

    Just Joined BYC! Could use some guidance on an issue w/ Silkie Chicks!

    Hello fellow chicken lovers. Introducing myself to BYC and looking for some guidance. As of this past summer, I am a new chicken mama to 3 silkies (hopefully hens, but still not sure!). I am obsessed with them and I have read so many helpful threads on this site, thanks for sharing your...
  19. L

    Hen pulling rooster’s feathers and eating!!!

    Hi all! Background: 3 chickens: one partridge Cochin hen (top of pecking order), a dark Brahma hen (probably bottom of order) and a handicapped dark Brahma rooster. They are going through their first molt (about a year and two months old, southeaster Wisconsin) with the rooster looking the...
  20. buffy-the-eggpile-layer

    The Mysterious Case of the Egg Yolk Stains

    Hi folks, HISTORY: I'm hoping someone can help me deduce what's going on over here. Two of my 19 month old hens--a GLW and BO--had been going through a pretty hardcore molt since a couple weeks ago. They'd been separated into their own pen, to help keep them from the drama of the rest of the...
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