Ugly Chicken

I have 9 chickens and one by one they have started to molt.  Their coop has been full of feathers for quite a while now.  I have cleaned it out a couple of times, but the feathers just keep falling off! 


This poor gal is staying in the coop to keep warm.  She did come out for some fresh greens!  


Under natural circumstances a chicken will molt for 14 to 16 weeks during the late summer or early fall.

Molting is where they lose all or some of their feathers and stop producing eggs. This is a natural shedding of feathers.  Laying will resume when molt is over. 


Mine have started molting so late, I am wondering if I will get eggs this winter.  They may wait until spring as they don't like short days of winter either!