Show NORMAL HENS HAVE TIME FOR MOLTING it usually requires days to complete the molt and few eggs are laid by fowls by H R IL WILLIAMS WILI IAMS professor animal husbandry university of 0 arizona all normal hens heas have a molting bolting season which comes in the late summer and early fall it usually requires bout about days to complete the molt and during this period few eggs are laid this Is a critical period tor for the hens and they should have special care and attention meal sunflower seeds and a limited amount of corn will supply the oil constituents icille skim mill meat meal and green alfalfa are especially good to furnish the protein during this time the liens hens should be given granulated bone to furnish the ash constituents r required in the new feathers vigorous liens hens properly red led will molt more rapidly than those lacking vitality or where here they do not receive special attention it sometimes happens that show birds are made to molt early in alie season |