Are your chickens molting? Mine are! Share pictures of the rattiest, worst looking birds you have! Ten out of my thirteen layers are molting right now, and this is the best I got so far:
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"Study books and observe nature; if they do not agree, throw away the books." ~ William A. Albrecht
I have three that are looking ragged right now. I don't understand why they lose their feathers just as it's getting really cold. I would molt in summer if it were me.
"People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do."
I really don't understand why they molt just as the cold is starting either, maybe because that's a bad time to be reproducing so they can put the energy elsewhere?
Our gold laced wyandottes are basically done molting now, and the silvers are just starting ¯\_(ツ)_/¯