Winter Molt??

[Timothy Menezes]

You can probably speed her feather growth with Feather Fixer or other vitamin/mineral supplements. My understanding is growing those feathers requires certain cheleted minerals and the regrowth can be sped up by providing them. A good normal feed has these minerals at the normal levels, but not as much as they could use during molt.

This is something I recently learned about so haven't tried it yet. It's certainly worth looking into with your cold temps. I am constantly temped to move out of expensive and liberal Ca, but at the same time, it's 60 degrees outside right now. Tonights low is supposed to be 50 or so. The recent rains have the grass and wildflowers sprouting out

 

[Skye'sDucks]

Going off of what Timothy Menezes said above, I know that a lot of people give their ducks extra protein during a molt, usually through dog or cat food, as a little extra boost to help molting. I'm giving my drake a little cat food every morning after his feed to help him along. (and I think he's addicted to it, lol! never before have I gotten him to jump for a treat until now....he'll be sad once I stop haha)

 

[Timothy Menezes]

Cat kibbles are an excellent supplement, dog food not so much. I mix scratch, cat kibbles, and pigeon seed or wild bird seed. The chickens love it when I toss out a few handfuls of this mix.

 

[Miss Lydia]

My ducks love Salmon N pea dog food.

 

[DuckyDonna]

My ducks love Salmon N pea dog food.

so for my future molts, is this a dry dog/cat foods that y'all give them?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Mine is, pretty sure it’s for others too.

 

[Skye'sDucks]

I give dry cat food.

 

[Timothy Menezes]

Yes it's dry, and it's only cat food. Dog food I am told has something that problematic for poultry digestion.