Quiz: Is Your Flock Ready for Molt Season?

[eddie_van_quailen]

d) A rare condition where feathers grow backwards

I loved this

 

[MyBabyHens]

10 / 10 !

Was Not expecting to get them all right !

 

[TheChickenGirl16]

I loved this

That one got me too!!

 

[Pukkits]

This is my favorite bird molt photo I have. Camilla doing her best "creepy Jim Henson puppet from The Labyrinth".

 

[Mother of Chaos]

This is my favorite bird molt photo I have. Camilla doing her best "creepy Jim Henson puppet from The Labyrinth".View attachment 4214557

Poor girl! I assume she feathered in ok and became gorgeous again?

 

[Pukkits]

Poor girl! I assume she feathered in ok and became gorgeous again?

She did, though that photo is a few years old now and we are on a mostly new flock. I think of that photo the only bird left is Lucia, the buff orp feet in the top. I know it's her from her crooked toe. Lucia is now the honored auntie, teaching the eight new lavender and chocolate orps the best ways to manipulate the humans into offering treats and how to properly sit on the humans feet so they can't escape.

Lucia is getting ready for her molt and looking wilty. Our new hens are going to love the high protein snacks that come out when molt starts. I don't think the new girls are going to annual molt until next year, so they will assume it's some kind of autumnal equinox multi-week food holiday of snacks.

 

[BDutch]

So tell us: what’s your best tip or trick for helping chickens through molt season? And don't forget to share your results in the comments.

Give my flock chick feed with 19.5 % protein and little calcium.

They also have access to a container with layer feed. So my chickens can eat the chick feed by choice. They also free range a few - several hours a day for extras (insects, seeds) and a good condition.
If they cant free range I often scatter some dried mealworms in the run added to some mixed grains/seeds (scratch).

My chickens never have a hard moult. Maybe bc our temperatures drop slowly here from September till December .

Katrientje my bantam RIR started moulting right now, she stopped laying eggs atm.

10/10

 

[BDutch]

My chickens don't molt...

Stil pullets? Wait till next year.

 

[TheChickenGirl16]

She did, though that photo is a few years old now and we are on a mostly new flock. I think of that photo the only bird left is Lucia, the buff orp feet in the top. I know it's her from her crooked toe. Lucia is now the honored auntie, teaching the eight new lavender and chocolate orps the best ways to manipulate the humans into offering treats and how to properly sit on the humans feet so they can't escape.

Lucia is getting ready for her molt and looking wilty. Our new hens are going to love the high protein snacks that come out when molt starts. I don't think the new girls are going to annual molt until next year, so they will assume it's some kind of autumnal equinox multi-week food holiday of snacks.

Lucia sounds like a sweetheart!!

 

[BackyardinWales]

This is my favorite bird molt photo I have. Camilla doing her best "creepy Jim Henson puppet from The Labyrinth".View attachment 4214557

I'm glad mine haven't done that!!