Please Tell Me You're Molting Too?

[Crunchie]

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Yep, I often do double takes when I walk out to the pens, looking for a dead chicken for all of the fluff & feathers laying around. I feel like I'm raking & picking the runs out all. the. time. And...hardly any eggs. I actually bought eggs yesterday so I could some baking. I have 50+ adult chickens!

The only thing laying--though they are molting just as hard as anything else--are my large fowl white crested black Polish. Those girls are consistently my best producers. They put my Ams and Marans to shame in the laying department.

ETA: I do have a few black copper pullets that are just starting to lay. They're too young to be molting...maybe I won't have to buy eggs next week!

 

[logansmommy7]

I have some barebacks here that we got from a person with a crazed roo...I keep hoping to see new plumage growing, but none so far, will the feathers ever grow back?

 

[destiny_56085]

Cockerel pens.... no feathers.

Pullet pen.... looks filthy, but all feathers from the last week.

My adults I'm ashamed to even take pics of right now. I have quite a few hens that are solid pinfeathers and no fluff whatsoever. Even 2 of my roosters are missing all their feathers on their breast and cushion.

It must just be the season/weather. Normally all ours wait til the end of august. The pheasants just dropped all their feathers last week and the peacock males are mostly tailless too.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

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They'll grow back eventually. Give it a few months. Took my female at least a month to get pin feathers in. She's not fit for showing at all, but she doesn't look gawd-awful anymore either!

 

[TK Poultry]

i just hope all of mine are done before the fall shows the first show around here is in september and i hope there done its mostly my ducks and a few of my chickens.......when do you think they will be done b/c after the molt i think ill have a few more layers b/c their vents are widening and there waddles and combs have redden and grown so im ready for the molt to be over