{"id":42240,"date":"2026-08-13T09:22:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T09:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=42240"},"modified":"2026-08-13T09:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T09:22:06","slug":"red-is-broody-and-snow-is-moulting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=42240","title":{"rendered":"Red is broody and Snow is moulting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Red has gone broody after laying seven eggs in fifteen days. Snow stopped laying ten days ago and has now started moulting dramatically. Yesterday at lunch time when I cleaned up the run I picked up a huge amount of feathers from Snow including a lot of long ones which I think are mostly wing feathers and perhaps a few tail feathers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This will mean Snow won’t come back in to lay this year which is two months earlier than last year. Snow laid 85 eggs last year. This year she has laid 45. This is a big difference but chickens can lay half as many eggs each year as the year before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The feathers I collected from Snow in just one morning<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Snow is dropping feathers while I am photographing her<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Storm looks a bit scruffy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Storm’s leg feathers are very patchy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cloud looks a bit tatty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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So does Mango<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Snow doesn’t look bad considering how many feathers she is dropping<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Maple and Popcorn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Gold doesn’t look bad now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Red is broody<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I lift Red out of the nest box<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

If Red starts moulting when she comes out of being broody that will mean we will just have the two newest girls laying. Hopefully though Maple and Popcorn will continue laying through the winter as it’s their first year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having lost two of the newer girls this year I am hoping to get two more girls in the spring. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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