The one-year old Orloffs are in a full on feather dropping molt. Don't know if all the very hot weather over the past two weeks set this in to motion, or the fact that they are getting ready for the fall... this week was much cooler. They have all stopped laying eggs. We were only getting about two eggs per week from each one, which we attributed to the extreme warm temps this summer.
While the ladies don't look any less feathered, in all reality, it is obvious in their coop and pen that feathers are a flying off their bodies at a rapid rate. I didn't want to stress them out any more than they already are, so I tried to take the snap shots outside their pen which kinda put a bit of a blur through the middle of the photos.
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