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Oh my gosh, hahah! Thank you so much! Poor Willow looks really lovely, now, months later. I promise!

Here she is today. Most of her pinfeathers are grown out. This post is not an entry in the contest, but is more for a 'before and after' photo for those that are curious!! Looking just a little better....!! She still has a few feathers to grow in on her back. She hasn't started laying again...

WalkingOnSunshine, I have noticed that this particular color/pattern of EE tend to have these terrible molts! If you look through this thread and the ones from years past, the EEs with this coloration seem to pop up a lot. It must be genetic!

How cold does it get? For the most part I let mine stay outside without heat when they molt; unless it is really really cold (we had some -30°F days last year) I let them be. The only time I put 'clothes' on them is if another chicken is plucking out the blood feathers. Most chickens do not...

This isn't a photo so I can't really enter it, but in the spirit of the contest, I took this video yesterday of poor molting Moa, our top barred rock hen! Guest vocals by Coho, a salmon faverolles.

Yep, they are okay! It seems to depend on genetics, which chickens molt "explosively" and which ones have a (much more reasonable) tendency to lose just a few feathers at a time and replace them as they go..! I have noticed certain breeds are more prone to doing this. After watching the "worst...

Haha! I should have taken a photo of her without her protective "cape" but it stresses her out to take it on and off, so I settled for these.

She won't win, but here's poor Willow (an easter egger), entering "All Other Breeds" Her back is entirely pinfeathers too, but we put a protective fleece "cape" on her to keep the other chickens from trying to eat her pinfeathers. "Are you seriously taking my photo when I look like this?!"