Photo Caption: Margot, the Wellsummer, went through an ugly molting season. (Journal photo by Lacey Vilhauer.) It’s fall, and your chicken coop looks like a massacre happened inside with the number of ...

Molting is the process of shedding off old and worn out feathers to replace them with new ones. They will lose their features in a sequence from the head, neck, down the back, across the breast and ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- A House Democrat and a Senate Republican have teamed up to push for a ban on "forced molting" of chickens in Illinois, a practice they say is both cruel and a risk to public ...