Moulting?

[SassyKat6181]

Kept the guineas in today as the weather was really rainy and calling for thunderstorms. Went to water and lock up and I swear there were enough feathers spread around the coop to make up an entire bird. I did a head count 3 times to make sure!

They are only 6 months, is it a usual moulting time?

 

[terrilhb]

I don't know if it is molting. Mine are 5 months and I see feathers all over all the time. I am anxious to see the answer.

 

[SassyKat6181]

They are usually out free ranging, and they go all over....so I usually don't see any feathers. But I swear I could make a decent pillow with the amount of feathers in the coop from them being in just one day.

 

[PeepsCA]

My Guineas moult in the fall, which is the norm for all of my full grown birds (and my Hens stop laying when they moult).

I have tons of light colored Guineas, so it looks like it snowed here, inside and out, lol.

 

[patti'speeps]

My Guineas are molting now as well. There outside pen looks like one of them exploded there are so many feathers, lol. I thought something got in and shredded one when I first saw all the feathers. It would take a pretty gutsy racoon to take on one of my Jumbo Guineas, lol.

 

[leonphelps]

it would make sense that the birds moult to grow thicker feathers for the winter.