How do you do a forced molt? Mine are starting too but I just leave them alone by end of Sept beginning of Oct they will have all their new feathers and be looking good.
I have the book should have looked it up.
To give the flock a rest from egg production and have all new feathers going into the cold winter months.
I think most ducks do this naturally, mine do, they stop laying and start to molt on their own .
It seems once one starts they all get going. I still have 2 ducks brooding they aren't on eggs so next week they will be outside so they can get going along with the rest. Even my chickens are molting so it must have something to do with losing daylight sets off their clock. If you are worried some may not finish before cold weather sets in then by all means do what you have to do, I just know here they seem to start and finish before the real cold hits.
