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Official BYC Contest
Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures - 2025
Ends December 31st, 2025
Are Your Chickens Molting?
We Want Your Pics!
For more information on your flock's annual molt, see here:- Molting: All You Need To Know
- What Happens When Chickens Molt?
- Chickens Losing Feathers? Managing Your Flock's Molt
- Molting- Your Flock's Seasonal Shedding
- DISCUSSION: For the new folks that haven't experienced a molt yet.
The contest is simple, post pictures of your birds in the worst part of their molt. Once we're past the molting season, our esteemed panel of judges will pick a loser... er... winner!
Prizes - At least one 3-month PFM
To increase your chances of winning, please read the rules before entering.
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Rules:
- An entry is up to 50 pictures of your molting chicken. Please include:
- Name
- Breed
- Chickens only.
- If you have more than one chicken to enter, do them in separate posts.
- Must be your pictures that were taken THIS YEAR, so probably within the last few weeks and over the next few months (depending on your climate, birds, etc.).
- Molt pictures submitted to our previous molt contests are not eligible for this contest.
- Images that have been resized might be disqualified if they are too small to judge.
- ALL pictures MUST be uploaded to BYC and not hosted on other image sites, personal websites, etc.
- No screenshots, watermarks, date stamps, text, etc., on the photo. No collages.
- The photo needs to have been taken by you.
- You cannot use a photo that won an award in another BYC-sponsored contest.
- High-quality images are recommended. Basic editing, such as cropping and other subtle changes, are allowed.
- ALL photos MUST be uploaded to BYC.
- Prizes are limited to one per person per contest.
- All BYC rules apply: Terms and rules
- Accepting entries through December 31st, 2025, at 11:59 pm Pacific Time
If entries warrant, we will have two categories, "Frizzle" and "Non-Frizzles" (on account of Frizzles having some pretty bad molting genes and winning this contest for a few years
Photography tips from fellow BYC members:- Photography Tips from BYC's jolenesdad
- Photography Tips from BYC's mdees88
- Photography Tips from BYC's TudyBot
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2022 Frizzle Winners
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2022 Non-Frizzle Winners
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2021 Winners
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@Aussie-Chookmum See more pictures here. |
@Dorothy Dandurand See more pictures here. |
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