moulting season BrE
molting season AmE

The moulting season occurs in late spring and is a process that takes six to eight weeks.

Our moulting season, like that of the fowls, must be a crisis in our lives.

During the moulting season the hair falls off first from the neck, then the mane and lastly the body hair.

Cashmere is collected during the spring moulting season when the goats naturally shed their winter coat.

Often, the young males develop their neck rings and nape bands in two or sometimes three successive moulting seasons.

The most important moulting season of the lobster in Scottish waters occurs between May and August.

Mere angry poultry in moulting season; whom Brunswick's grenadiers and cannoneers will give short account of.

In the spring (the moulting season), the goats shed the inner wool, which regrows in winter.

Biometrics, weights, breeding and moulting seasons of passerines in an Azores cloud forest.

He is little better than the Lord Mayor, who flutters proudly for a year, and then drops his borrowed feathers in his moulting season.

The specialty animal fibre is collected by a number of methods including combing, shearing, and collecting the hair shed naturally during the moulting season.

After collecting the hair either through shearing or collecting during the moulting season the hair goes through a sorting method.

Punta Ninfas is the location of an important colony of elephant seals, whose breeding season occurs from September to December, with their moulting season taking place from January to April.

You speak of a furrow and a harrow as being the same thing; you talk of the moulting season for cows; and you recommend the domestication of the pole-cat on account of its playfulness and its excellence as a ratter!

This is molting season and the geese cannot fly.

This spring, during molting season when the geese are easier to capture, trappers will move them to southern Alabama.

How I dread his annual molting season.

Down and feathers, the external plumage, are also plucked from live birds during the molting season, but this is now rare.

Under his leadership, the town rounded up about 350 of its thousand-plus birds during molting season for a ride to a meat processor.

He is in a post-primary molting season.

He gestures toward an armchair in the corner, its fabric so worn that if the thing moved I would attribute it to the molting season.

Ikk's got the whole town sewed up tight as a carapace in molting season."

It finally settled on rounding them up during molting season, when their ability to fly is limited, and slaughtering them.

The fur is thick year-round, as it is shed and replaced gradually rather than in a distinct molting season.

The molting season for crabs is moving up the East Coast, delighting diners and challenging chefs.

The animals also like being petted and scratched, particularly during molting season, and they willingly submit themselves to regular checkups and the taking of blood samples.

During the molting season, the males shed their stunning train feathers and reveal the unassuming grey-coloured tail which is normally hidden from view beneath the train.

Gray bats have uni-colored dark gray fur on their backs that may bleach to a russet or chestnut brown after the molting season (July or August).

They can be solitary in general but are gregarious and form large groups during pupping and molting seasons when they haul out on ice floes or, lacking ice, on land.

She'd possessed a total of three pairs of shoes: those she'd been found in, a pair of cheap canvas tennis sneakers, and grayish bedroom mules that had gone through more than one molting season.

Whether they scatter widely to dense hiding-places and by sitting close escape discovery, or whether, like some of the snipe, they make a short northern migration in the molting season in search of solitude and a change of food, is yet to be discovered.