can a chicken change colors?

[MysteryChicken]

My first color changing hen.
Before the color change: 2020 - 2021

Now, 2022

 

[MysteryChicken]

She's two years old last September. Hatchery bird fro Atwood's farm store.

So, she's still young, like my birds.

 

[The Truth Is Out There]

I had a polish hen go from a brown and black to white after molting! Each year with another molt she would get whiter. When she passed away at 9 years old she was completely white. No joke. This was a few years ago, but I'll see if I can find a some pictures to post...

*Edited to add these pictures:

Meet Ursula, the color changing hen, in the back of the corner. She is about 4 years old in the picture and is her "normal" color. (To explain why there is a pile of hens in a corner...there are chicks under there. The little black hen hatched a few chicks, and these other two broody hens decided they wanted those chicks instead of hatching their own. So, they joined right in and the chicks had three moms!)

Here she is on the left half-way through her "change."

And here she is nearly all white!!!

I would seriously think you were messing with me if I met your birds then saw them again later!!!