How to Help Your Chickens Through A Molt

How do we help our girls through their molts?

Every night, after the girls have been put back in their secured run, we give them soaked organic ancient scratch grains, black oil sunflower seeds, and freeze dried meal worms. This "snack" is packed with protein and healthy fats to give the girls the energy they need to make new feathers, and get their bodies ready for the cold weather that will be here before we know it. They are obsessed with this recipe and we've seen an increase in egg production with it even during the hardest stages of their molt.

Remember, make sure layer feed is 90% of your hen's diet. If you have roosters, they should not ever eat layer feed as the calcium will wreck their kidneys. In that case, when your hens would be eating flock feed (much lower calcium percentage), you can increase the calcium snacks (like oyster shells or feeding them crushed egg shells) and protein a little more during a molt.