What does it mean when a chicken is molting?🐓 Molting is the natural shedding of old feathers and growth of new ones. Molt is driven by season and usually occurs in the fall when the hours of sunlight decrease. 🐓 WHAT TO EXPECT DURING A MOLT Chickens stop laying eggs, lose old feathers and experience feather regrowth. It’s that time of the year, you will begin to notice a crazy amount of feathers flying around in your nesting boxes, coop, and chicken run. 🐓 All chickens will molt annually, th

So how to tell the difference between when a chicken is done molting and ready to lay and when they are not. Mooncake (the lighter one) just laid for the first time since her first molt. She has bright red comb and waddles. Her sister Flyssa still has some time. #sisters #blueandalusianchickens #mooncake #flyssaminnelli #molting #laying #chickens #chickensofinstagram #redcombandwaddles #yay #eggs | Gigi Humphrey