molting

Since my girls are molting, I decided to save some of the prettiest feathers in an ornament! Has anyone done anything similar before? The process itself it’s pretty self explanatory-I just picked up some feathers on the ground, carefully put them in a glass ornament, disinfected the outside of...

Hello, I have two Bielefelders that are 1.5 years old. Around mid July of this year they stopped laying eggs and started to molt. At first it was a lot of feathers, they were very lethargic. Those new feathers have filled in but they are still continuing to loose feathers. Around the neck...

All of my hens are a little over 2.5 years old and most have finished up a molt. A couple returned to laying, but, as the days shortened, they soon stopped. Only one RIR is laying (after a molt). My ISA brown seems to have stopped entirely, which is a first, and my GLW, after starting to lay for...

Hello all! I’m new to this site. My mallard duck, Quackie, is five years old. She has been scratching and preening herself a lot. Loosing feather and skins cells all over the place. I would assume she was molting but she molted last month. She is an indoor duck with access to clean water and...

What could be going on if a rooster's face gets all pale (just his face, comb and wattles are fine), but then gets it's color back as soon as I pick him up or give attention? Molting related somehow? I believe this also happened with my boy this time last year, he's in the process of growing...

My red leghor, Princess Lay A is 18 months old and started molting about a month ago. A couple of weeks ago she stopped wanting to go outside and doesn’t perch at night. She creeps slowly and limps but I can’t find any injuries on her feet. She eats and drinks. The past couple of days I’ve...

This is the first full year I have had my ducks , they are 1 year and 4 months old and I noticed my one ducks feathers look bad and my other ducks feathers are beginning to look the same. Attached are some pictures of what I’m talking about

Any ideas why my silkies are having trouble growing back their feathers? It's a been a consistent problem for two years of molts now - they will lose the old feathers but not grow enough new ones back and some of the ones they grow back aren't smooth and pretty like they should be. These hens...

Is this normal for this time of year? I have six chickens and they have laid six eggs per day for the last 11 days. Everywhere I'm looking on the internet, other chicken owners claim that their production is way down and molting feathers all over the coop. Have seen very few feathers around...

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...

Hello, I have 4 girls: 2 Easter eggers, one barred rock, and one golden Wyandotte, all about 18 months old. My smaller Easter egger Pippi is molting and hasn’t laid an egg in over a week. They have a very secure run, and they all love to sleep outside on their roosting bar, but Pippi has moved...

I have two Easter eggers, one of whom is a carbon copy of Hey Hey from the Disney movie Moana (legal name: Mystery), and one who is an anxious escape artist (Laura Houdini Gremlin). For the past few weeks I’ve been dealing with a string of chicken issues and so I’ve been a little…high strung. A...

One of my molting hens has a scabbed wound on her butt, where she's started molting. I think it is probably from picking and already sprayed the birds with stop-pick, but the area is swollen and firm to the touch. I want to make sure this isn't something to worry overmuch about. I've given her a...

Hi all! I need help with one of my hens. We have had some really bad flooding in Florida, and as a consequence of that, cocci and mold we lost lost at least 7 baby chicks. It has been rough this year. Now everyone seems to be doing better, I've been providing probiotics and electrolytes in the...

I'm in a bit of a bind. During the last month or so of summer a few of my chickens started to have laying issues (weird shell-less, soft shelled, and otherwise wonky eggs; illness before laying a weird egg, then no eggs but acting like laying; suspected internal laying). It's been such a...

I only have one laying hen that I bought a few weeks ago that laid two eggs for me then stopped laying! I thought maybe it was the stress of the move being with all new chickens but it’s going on too long for it to just be stress. My guess is molting since she’s missing some feathers around her...

Hi everyone, Long time lurker here, I have a silkie hen that was…not always the brightest but now she is either getting dumber or sick… I got her as a day old and she was quite energetic, actually I thought she was a boy while she was growing up because she was always running around and fighting...

How do you know if your quail has mites, and if they are gone? They are molting, I see the one with baby feathers replacing for adult feathers. Sometimes I see a broken feather, is it because I stress them out so much because I keep checking them, or would it be mites? I don't really see...

Several hens have been pecked or gotten their feathers broke by the roo. This one is different. She's not losing saddle feathers like the others. She's only losing wing feathers. Is it possible that she's molting already or is this also from the roo? I've never had a chicken molt so I don't know...

Hello! I have searched this website endlessly with no definite answers to my problem. Hopefully you guys can help me. I have an almost 3 year old hen that stopped laying eggs for the past 5 months. I wanted to specifically collect her eggs so I could incubate them, so I moved her, the...