Chicken changing color

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Aug 4, 2021
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I have a two year old chicken named Pico. She is a Black Australorp.
She started out black at a few months old, but slowly speckles of white began popping up. At around a year old, she was nearly all white with a few random black speckles. Now, after her first molt, she is a mix of black and white, leaning a litfle more to the black side.

Does anyone know what's going on?
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Groovy, Any thoughts on ops hen or have you not pinpointed the likely cause of the color change?
This one, looks similar, but this one looks more like a case of Vitiligo, based on the amount of white.

I don't think it's the samething going on with my birds, since their change practically followed the same pattern, & they almost completely mirrored each other's heads.
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Also, the first hen with more white has grown orange feathers recently.
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This one, looks similar, but this one looks more like a case of Vitiligo, based on the amount of white.

I don't think it's the samething going on with my birds, since their change practically followed the same pattern, & they almost completely mirrored each other's heads.View attachment 3461812View attachment 3461813Also, the first hen with more white has grown orange feathers recently. View attachment 3461814
Do you might know of a reason besides vitiligo?
 

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