HEY! Where's my EGGS??

[Dances with Ducks]

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Seems molting is a sort of group effort.

But don't you see feathers in their bedding when they molt?
You should see the teensy little green egg my runner laid today.

 

[streemers]

no i dont see many feathers in the bedding when they molt but there are a few extra out in the yard. i normaly figure it out from first the lac of eggs then there necks get scruffy.

 

[Dances with Ducks]

Ok - I'll watch for that. They were all born last April so they may be due for it, the campbell's feathers are practically bleached blond! The welsh has had several big-piles-of-feathers molts and except for laying later and later each day she has been the least affected, so this theory fits too.

 

[streemers]

well let us know what you find out

 

[Dances with Ducks]

The other two have resumed laying, the welsh took a total of two days off and the runner only one.
But the campbell hasn't laid for a week now. I have seen a couple of her feathers in the yard though, so it probably is a molt. She seems otherwise OK, no strange poop or anything. She is a little less active than the others but she was always like that. My deepest fear was that she may be egg bound, but I would have seen other signs by now, I think?
Maybe the fact that they are all different breeds (although the exact same age) puts them on different molt schedules.
So I have relaxed about it, I think they are OK.