2 of my 9 Blue Wyandottes have not done their first adult molt & will be two years old the middle of April. I don't remember seeing this in the past 28 years of chicken raising. Their hatch mates did a slow molt in Oct & Nov while still laying & then stopped laying all of Dec & Jan & finished their molt. These 2 are still laying eggs & were the only ones laying in Dec & Jan. The beginning of Feb the others started laying again along with my 7 pullets. The eggs of these birds are pale & somewhat rough, so poor shell quality. The birds look ratty, because of not molting. This is the first year I didn't use lights for 14 hours. I had the light go on at 5 a.m. all winter. Yesterday I got one rough egg & one soft egg, not sure if the soft one was from one of these two. Anyone had this problem? I assume they are not going to molt. Are they going to kill themselves? Can anything be done besides separating them & giving them less light?
