Photo Caption: Margot, the Wellsummer, went through an ugly molting season. (Journal photo by Lacey Vilhauer.) It’s fall, and your chicken coop looks like a massacre happened inside with the number of ...

For the longest time, I had several chickens with bare backs and bare butts. Here are three common reasons chickens lose ...

Dec. 12—No matter how long one has cared for backyard chickens, every year brings new surprises. Farmers tending to their flock as the days begin getting darker and colder may be surprised to visit ...

While the average pet owner may be familiar with the seemingly never-ending tufts of fur shed by their cat or dog, the hobby farmer may be more familiar with another loss of overcoat — hen molting.

Unless you keep chickens yourself, you may not know that eggs are a seasonal food. Spring and summer produces abundant eggs while production tapers off in fall while chickens go though their annual ...

The chicken feather count in the coop and in their little yard is way up, presaging their annual molt. This was quite disturbing the first time around, as the hens lose their insulation at an alarming ...