Moulting NOW.. can this be right???

[Wendy'sChicksRock]

thats what im dealing with too

my poor pretty girls are looking terrible...

 

[Frannabelle]

Moulting in Michigan too!

 

[gritsar]

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Chicks go through several juvenile molts before they reach the point of lay. They are growing and need new feathers to match their growth. Then some go through a mini-molt in the 8 to 9 month old range. Others don't have their first adult molt until approx. 18 months.

My older girls are going through their fourth adult molt, at age 3 years 5 months. The oldest of the younger birds in my other coop are only 15 months old, but one look at them and it's easy to see they are molting too.