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Ratty Chicken Picture Exchange -- Molting

James Freyr

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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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James Freyr

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My last hens are molting pretty hard. The others look all shiny and new. This poor thing looks the worst.

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Todd Parr

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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.

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Rebecca Rosa

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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?