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.
7 Herbs To Help Chickens Through Molting Season
October 4, 2023Molting season is painful for chickens and their keepers, but you can provide these 7 herbs to help your chickens feel better when the feather are flying.
Flying Feathers: A Few Facts About Chicken Molting
October 3, 2023Learn more about molting, the natural process in which a chicken sheds old feathers and grows new ones, by Chickens magazine editors.
5 Protein Sources You Can Offer Molting Chickens
September 29, 2022This time of year, egg production drops while chickens are molting—shedding old feathers to produce new ones. Here’s how you can help them through seasonal molt.
Some Chicken Behavior Can Be Downright Wacky!
September 28, 2022Some chicken behavior can be downright wacky, which is definitely the appeal of backyard poultry for many. Check out some weird things your birds may do.
6 Expectations For Seasonal Molt
August 26, 2015Rachel Hurd Anger Our flock’s annual molt has always begun with the Polish in mid-summer. Next is the Partridge Plymouth Rock in late summer. In early fall, it’s the Australorp’s turn. Finally, the Silver Laced Wyandotte experiences her awkward nudity through the chilly days between Thanksgiving and the first days of December. This year, […]
6 Ways to Give Molting Hens a Protein Boost
October 3, 2014Opening the coop to find a carpet of feathers that wasn’t there the day before can be shocking, whether you’re a beginning or experienced chicken keeper.
How to Care for Molting Chickens
December 30, 2013A 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.
