molting

This girl is the only one of my flock that looks like this. She’s 8 weeks old, it’s my first time having chicks. I have her isolated but I’m not sure what’s going on.

I have 5 hens no roosters. They are well fed, free range for several hours a day plus have a decent size run rest of the time. In last 8-12 weeks all the hens seem to be molting all but one is back to being fully feathered. I have one hen whose back remains bare. Just curious what could be...

I have a female Indian Runner who just went through a molt but her feathers stayed a yellow tint. After she grew all her new feathers I noticed she is molting again. What would cause this?

What’s going on with my girls? All super active and clean, zero signs of mites. Full access to oyster shells and high quality, Kalmbach feed. Are they just molting? They are about 12 months old now, and no rooster.

I have a year old hen that I can’t tell if she is molting or if she is getting picked on. This is our first full year of chickens and they haven’t really molted yet since we have had them so I’m not too sure. She is missing feathers on the back of her neck and has no tail feathers. She is still...

Is this just a molt? We have no roosters, all the girls are in a very large, enclosed space. Super clean coop and feathers, no signs of mites or bugs. They’re about 12 months old. Cold and rainy here in the Northeast.

Hello, friends! I have an almost 3yr-old Indian Runner (Onyx) that still has not had a full molt, and I'm a little worried. Her flight feathers and tail feathers are very raggedy. Her 'sisters' (the ones I got at the same time/age) have both molted in full, at least once. And my two originals...

I know there are a ton of posts about decreased egg laying. Thanks for your time. It's late Feb in Willamette Valley Oregon with warm weather 40s-60s. Collection of and mixed breeds; 12 female ducks, of which 7 are almost a year and 5 are 'a few' years old; 6 adult drakes, 3 of which are were...

I can't figure it where it's coming from! I have one hen that is molting. Otherwise, I have 8 seemingly healthy hens, but every time I go out to the coop/run there is blood splattered! Today two hens have blood on their backs, but it doesn't look like it came from them. What do I do?!

Hi! I'm a chicken newbie. I've not gone through a molt with my flock yet, so I don't have much experience. I added 2 hends to my flock a few months ago and was told that they were close to molting when I bought them on November 4, 2023. My concern is that the healthy looking lavender in this...

Hi! I don’t think this is necessarily an injury, but I’m not sure. Her neck has been bald for a couple of months now. No signs of mites or any other infestation, all of the hens get along super well and I don’t have any roosters. Is she just going through a molt? My Easter Egger also had the...

Hello all… Recently, l have noticed one of my Rhode Island Reds missing feathers. She will be 2 yrs old in April. Two years ago, l started raising my layers, starting off with 10 hens; 4 Rhode Island Reds, 3 Brown Longhorns and 3 Black Sexlinks. I had added 4 more young Rhode Island Reds to...

I am a new chicken keeper, so please help me figure out what to do here. This hen might be molting but my flock is 8 months old and it's winter so the timing is wrong, and the feathers look broken off. There are 8 hens and one rooster, and all grew up together. I removed her from the flock...

So, I have some chickens that did a partial molt. The chickens will be a year old this March. I have added extra protein to their diet, meal worms, feather fixer feed, etc etc. Some of the girls only lost feathers are their necks. They got their feathers back already (still not laying again...

One of my silver laced wyandottes started to molt and then quit midway though. She's often seen on her own so I think she is bullied. I separated her to give her time to grow her feathers in peace, but after a month of isolation she only managed to regrow the ones picked out on her back from...

Hello! I’ve had chickens almost 2 years but this is my first year I’ve dealt with molting. A bit about my flock: 8 hens are 1yr 11m (golden comets & Easter eggers) 4hens 1yr 1m (Rhode Island reds, buff Orpington & copper maran) Egg production started to decrease in October and then only...

Hey yall, my 2 black australorp hens were acquired in June 2023 at 6 weeks and started laying in September. They laid beautifully for the first couple of months about an egg a day from each (even though the eggs are quite small) but they just recently (10ish) days ago stopped laying completely...

One of my chickens, not the biggest, but the most precocious, as well as the alpha, has been molting for 4 weeks now, first molt. She is active frisky, and eats well. I am however concerned about her pale, shrunken comb. Should I be?

Hi I have a question...Is this OK for a drake's bill to look like this? Why this is happening to their bills? This isn't my drake and it's from: https://instagram.com/fatty_and_friendsigshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA== The owner said it's OK for drake but it looks really bad imo..what we can do to help our...

molting season 🪶 🥲 i swear it was more feathers than poop in the coop today when i went to clean it out;;