What Is Molting & How Can You Help Your Chickens?
October 24, 2023Molting is a natural process wherein chickens lose feathers. Here’s what’s going on as well as a few ways to help birds through the uncomfortable process.
Molting is a natural process wherein chickens lose feathers. Here’s what’s going on as well as a few ways to help birds through the uncomfortable process.
Learn more about molting, the natural process in which a chicken sheds old feathers and grows new ones, by Chickens magazine editors.
A reader’s young laying hens are losing their feathers and laying less eggs. She’s worried about her hens but she needn’t be. They’re probably going through their first molt.
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