molting symptoms

  1. B

    How long to feed flock raiser to molting chickens

    Hi all. My chickens are in the process of molting I believe. They are still laying though. All I have read says they usually stop during molt. Is this normal? Some are missing some patches of feathers now in areas. It has been a slow process I have noticed over the last few weeks. They are also...
  2. JBirdy

    Molting Hen With Very Watery Poop - Not Worms

    Hello, I'm wondering if someone might be able to help me figure out why one of my chickens is under the weather. She's a bantam silkie who seems to be going through a pretty big molt - she is in the regrowth process now. About three weeks ago (around the time she began molting), she stopped...
  3. L

    How long does Chicken Molt

    Hi, I have a golden top and she has not laid or go broody since November. I can see she has lost some feathers on her chest so maybe it is because she is molting. But it has been few months now and she still has a bald chest. Their daily diet consists layer pellets, bird seeds, meal worms...
  4. jenaialynn

    Losing feathers in spring

    Hi this is my first post! About this time last year I got two wyandotte (silver laced) and two gold-sex linked chicks. My two wyandotte's have been losing feathers around their neck and wing area for the last couple weeks. I have checked for lice and mites and can't tell anything, and their...
    • jenaialynn
    • Thread
    • feathers feathers missing lice mites? molt ? pecking ? mites? skin condition? molting and diet molting symptoms spring hens wyandotte hens
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Chicken Behaviors and Egglaying
  5. SoliLuneStelle

    Is this molting or illness? New chicken mom.

    I'm new to raising chickens (since september). My girls are just shy of 1 year old, and when I cleaned their coop today, I noticed there were more feathers than usual and my one buffs had a pale comb and face. I was wondering if anyone could confirm if this is molting. Her behaviors seem normal...
  6. Sandy80

    Molting hens lost food appetite. Normal?

    Looking for information & advice for my 9 hens. The girls are 18 months old & going through their first molt. They have drastically reduced amount of layer food they eat at about the sane time I noticed them losing feathers. I historically gave them organic layer food (16% protein) & just this...
  7. Leihamarie

    Please add your experience! Molting Survey: How do your chickens molt?

    Hi All, I'm putting together a "real molting" thread to help new chicken keepers with molting expectations all in one place and would LOVE your input, please!!!! So many chicken care websites claim that molting is very predictable and always happens within certain parameters in a certain order...
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