[Shazzer]

In the last week one of my 3 chooks has been shedding feathers all over the place, and now one of the others is as well they are all over the floor in the run and the house looks someone has has a pillow fight!  I have had a red mite problem of late but I think i've been winning on that one, when I looked in tonight with my torch i couldn't see any really only the odd one.  Any ideas or could it just be a moult

[Kate and her Ducks]

Sounds like they're moulting . Mine seem to have synchronised their's ( :cry: no eggs).

[Foxy]

sounds like the moult, it can be really dramatic though!  

[Vember]

( :cry: no eggs).

Really really sorry Kate feeling very bad, every time I see you mention it I try an hide under my desk :oops:
 I was just so excited, nervous & everything I so should of fetched you some


Sorry  :oops:




My lot are moulting Geese, chucks everything, can't move for feathers  

[Kate and her Ducks]

Tell me about it. Two of my girls (ducks) moulted so badly they sank in the pond!

Pics:

http://www.chat.allotment-garden.org/viewtopic.php?t=21923&highlight=ducks+float

[Kate and her Ducks]

Really really sorry Kate feeling very bad, every time I see you mention it I try an hide under my desk :oops:
 I was just so excited, nervous & everything I so should of fetched you some


Sorry  :oops:

quote]

 :oops:
Obviously bringing this up far too often :oops:
I do miss my eggs though

[Shazzer]

so moulting means no eggs, for how long they have only just got over being broody, so no eggs! I JUST WANT EGGS!

[Vember]

Really really sorry Kate feeling very bad, every time I see you mention it I try an hide under my desk :oops:
 I was just so excited, nervous & everything I so should of fetched you some


Sorry  :oops:

quote]

 :oops:
Obviously bringing this up far too often :oops:
I do miss my eggs though

 

[Shazzer]

getting lost on the hiding under the desk thing

[Vember]

Sorry I went to Kates at weekend, and knowing she hadn't had eggs for a while i SHOULD have taken some


But I didn't  

[Shazzer]

oh ok

[Kate and her Ducks]

And moulting doesn't necessarily mean no eggs. They can moult in different ways. Gentle moults occur over a longer period time but they usually lay a few eggs (energy going into growing feathers). Severe moults are quicker to get over but they tend not to lay at all. Mine have done both but have now all synchronised a severe moult :cry: !!!

[Shazzer]

the last time one of mine moulted she never really grew them back and has always looked a bit plucked around her back end!

[chicken soup]

Two of my girls have just stopped being broody and gone into moult mode so guess how surprised I was when both of them left me an egg yesterday.    This morning the coop looks a mess though feathers everywhere so I shall be off out to clean them out later today if it doesn't rain.

[Ruby Red]

Well Ive given up on mine ever laying again. They went broody and moulted all over the place 8 weeks ago. Still no eggs. . .  :cry: