Topic: ? Moult

[grannyjanny]

We have 4 Plymouth Rock bantams & have had ::) fun since getting them, from not laying very well (tried 3 foods as they weren't eating). We have Mother & her 3 girls. Mother & one of her girls have just come out of a 4 week period of broodiness & now it looks as though they could be going through the moult. There are feathers in the run where as when broody they were in the coup. The info I have found suggest that the moult is in an Autumn-Winter
thing or around their birthday. We saw them at the end of Feb & they were 18 weeks at that point. Don't know when Mother was born. Could the weather confuse them, it's quite cool here ATM.

[Anisemary]

My broodies always go into moult when their chicks are two or three weeks old, hatching really takes it out of them.  The upside of this is if they get it over with after hatch, they usually miss the annual  Autumn moult, and are giving me a few eggs while the others are taking their rest!