Apache12
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- Apr 22, 2020
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I’m in Phx Az so I assume the girls molt later. one is done the other seems close. It’s been a month and no eggs. Pretty normal? Could it go much longer until the days go longer?
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Molting is triggered by length of daylight, not temperature.Chickens moult when they think it’s cold enough to.
I added to my post to add 'weasel' words........nothing is written in stone.That isn’t the experience I’ve had. We had a few really hot days in October (I live in Australia this was about middle of spring), after about 3-4 days the temperature went back to being cold again. This set of a few of my chickens need to moult. I checked they’re coop I couldn’t find any mites, parasites, anything. I checked them over and they were completely normal except they were moulting. After about 3-4 weeks they had finished and went back to laying.
Yes, they are.but they are all different.
How old, in months, are the birds on your graph?
Yes, they usually molt every fall/winter, starting in their second fall/winter.And they will molt every year?
also if it daylight wouldn’t the amount of daylight they need be more definable. Like once there are X number of hours they will lay again? Seems so random
Molting is triggered by length of daylight, not temperature.
Molting is triggered by length of daylight,
Seems so random