This picture really does not show how pitiful Dixie was while she was molting. Now that the big girls are about a year and 1/2 old, they are beginning to molt. Dixie had a hard molt - and over night lost most of her feathers. The run looked like someone had had a pillow fight! Hers are now growing back in and she looks beautiful again. Her feathers had been looking pretty dingy, even after a bath, so she was due some fresh ones!!! Now Penny is in full hard molt.
When they are in molt they do not lay eggs - which means I have a bunch of free-loaders back there!!! I think this winter I am going to put lights in the coop so they will keep laying more regularly through the winter.
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