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What can I do to get through the molt?
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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 230731" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>I'm recalling back from my chicken days now. The actual most is caused by a combination of age and light, or less light actaully. Heat causes fether loss, not a real molt. The poor buggers are trying to get cool. Heat stress causes them to slow down their egg production. The hens we kept in an enclosed run had a fan blowing throough it and that helped. The free range girls spent a lot of time around the rabbitry because there were misters going that kept that cooler. Unless there isn;t any shade I don;t think the color makes a real difference. The white hens, the reds and the grays (barred rocks) all pretty much behaved the same way. It seems that the white leghorns actually suffered more in egg production. Just guessing because the white and red leghorns were the only white egg layeers we had and I sure couldn;t tell the difference between the eggs from the 2 colors. Juts seemed that the wattles on the whites were paler and more shriveled then the reds. But that could have been because they're less noticabe on white then red chickens.</p><p>Sorry just babbling</p><p></p><p>dun</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 230731, member: 34"] I'm recalling back from my chicken days now. The actual most is caused by a combination of age and light, or less light actaully. Heat causes fether loss, not a real molt. The poor buggers are trying to get cool. Heat stress causes them to slow down their egg production. The hens we kept in an enclosed run had a fan blowing throough it and that helped. The free range girls spent a lot of time around the rabbitry because there were misters going that kept that cooler. Unless there isn;t any shade I don;t think the color makes a real difference. The white hens, the reds and the grays (barred rocks) all pretty much behaved the same way. It seems that the white leghorns actually suffered more in egg production. Just guessing because the white and red leghorns were the only white egg layeers we had and I sure couldn;t tell the difference between the eggs from the 2 colors. Juts seemed that the wattles on the whites were paler and more shriveled then the reds. But that could have been because they're less noticabe on white then red chickens. Sorry just babbling dun [/QUOTE]
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