Is it normal for chickens to molt in the summer?

[Chicks R Friends NOT Food]

I gave my dad's friend my rooster. He has never been normal, so it wouldn't suprise me if he's still not.... I went to visit him on Saturday and he was missing a lot of feathers on his chest. I thought the goats were eating them because I've seen them trimming his tail feathers for him. When I lifted his neck feathers, he did have new ones growing in. Is it possible he's molting? I thought this was a winter thing.

 

[EweSheep]

NOt all that unusual for them to molt. My spitz and Welsummers are going thru it as well!

 

[Buff Hooligans]

I have four Buff Orps and they've been flinging feathers all over the place for about a month. In the fall, they will probably start to molt in earnest...

 

[peakpoultry]

I hope it's normal because all of my birds are molting.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

Yup. It's starting to look like a pillow exploded in my run...
Between the heat and the molting my egg production is waayyyyy down.

 

[jsimplytx125]

I'm sooo glad that's what this is. My run looks like something got in and threw feather all around. I noticed they are the smaller fluffy feathers, just everywhere. I have 15 RIRs about 20 weeks.

 

[kycklingmamma]

One of my welsummers is molting "hard", she has more pinfeathers coming in than she has her regular feathers left, she looks like a porkiepine..I also have seen feathers for the last month or so throughout my run and coop...the heat and molt is really hard on them, give them extra protein to speed the molt up...they love catfood and during molting times it is a good treat to give them..

 

[cmom]

They can molt any time of the year. Mine go through min molts. I find feathers around but the birds don't show it much.

 

[SunAngel]

Must be normal. A few of mine are molting after being broody for 2 months. I think they are doing it on purpose just so they don't have to lay me eggs!

I had to go looking for my white Cochin the other day, there was so many feathers in the run it looked like she had been attacked. There are quite a few feathers in there from my other hens too. So she isn't the only one molting.

 

[Ratbird]

Yup. It's starting to look like a pillow exploded in my run...
Between the heat and the molting my egg production is waayyyyy down.

Heat can temporarily drop egg numbers and increase feather dropping. Also obviously drinking a lot more water but also larger, squirt poos that also helps remove heat from their bodies.