This revised edition now has 100+ new pages to give you the most up-to-date information available. Covers Housing, feeding, breeding, chicks to adults, caponizing, killing and dressing, disease control, and incubation. Includes chapters on turkeys and waterfowl.
Chickens will molt at about 18 months of age. Molting is where they loose all or some of their feathers and stop producing eggs. This is a natural shedding of feathers. Molting may take 2-4 months.