Ellyhutch
Songster
- Dec 15, 2020
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I recently moved my apartment ducks outdoors after living the first 13 months of their lives indoors. They seem to be CONSTANTLY molting. My Ancona drake has basically been molting his chest and back feathers since January (he's only shed and regrown adult wing and tail feathers once). My Muscovy hen starting shed every feather on her body - seriously, every one, like all at once - other than her wing feathers within the first 2 weeks of June. She's now very slowly shedding her wing feathers. However, she's starting molting chest and side fluff for the third time this summer. What's going on with them? Is this stress? Adaptation to outside? No other behavioral changes other than my Muscovy hasn't laid an egg probably since the second week of June.