I am so confused, two of my birds went through molts and didn't lay for at LEAST six weeks, which I considered totally normal and fine. Then, my Easter Egger started a soft molt... but then began laying again after only three weeks. And just recently my Barred Rock started laying after just over a week of soft molting. She still has a slightly bare patch on her rump! This has me worried, since I don't think she got enough down-time from egg-laying, and if she's somehow splitting her energy between molting and laying, well that's just not good! Maybe I just mis-read the molt? False molt?? I'm honestly at a loss. I just want to know if this has happened to anybody else before, and if there's something wrong with my birds - or are they just speed molters??