Ended Official 2022 BYC Other Fowl Molt Contest

[DukesDucks]

It is difficult to impress the ladies when all you have left are

two plain tail feathers and a powder puff butt.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

It is difficult to impress the ladies when all you have left areView attachment 3271379View attachment 3271380 two plain tail feathers and a powder puff butt.

It's all about his confidence. Just act like there's nothing wrong.

 

[Canadian Wind]

One of the ducks is moulting their flight feathers. I have quite the collection now! No idea what I'm going to do with them, but they're pretty...

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Mine does too!

Ditto!

 

[Liz Birdlover]

One of my senior pigeons,
He likes being a red neck!

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

One of my senior pigeons, he likes being a red neck
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I bet that feels so picky.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

I bet that feels so picky.

It's not like thorn sticking prickly, but yeah kinda weird, like if you just touch the end it reminds me of when my little cousin got a spike hairdoo & he was learning to use hair gel. It is so sensitive, when the feathers are too new to flake off the keratin coating yet, the birds will avoid being preened by other pigeons & avoid me petting them.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

So I swept yesterday, as I do daily. This is a spot by the feed tin that accumulates "stuff" (stuff is molting feathers & feather dust) from the "breeze" created by flapping wings. Yup, this spot was spotless yesterday. I fill a 50lb feed bag of just feathers weekly, during molt. I look around because I swear as many feathers as I collect, there just has to be somebody bald, but nope, all birds have their feathers. Go figure.

Molting is exhausting he's got one leg tucked in & gonna take a late morning nap. Everyone here has pin feather heads & necks.

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

So I swept yesterday, as I do daily. This is a spot by the feed tin that accumulates "stuff" (stuff is molting feathers & feather dust) from the "breeze" created by flapping wings. Yup, this spot was spotless yesterday. I fill a 50lb feed bag of just feathers weekly, during molt. I look around because I swear as many feathers as I collect, there just has to be somebody bald, but nope, all birds have their feathers. Go figure.
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Molting is exhausting he's got one leg tucked in & gonna take a late morning nap. Everyone here has pin feather heads & necks.
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Wow! Do you do anything with the feathers?

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Wow! Do you do anything with the feathers?

I hate to waste, but I can barely keep up with everything as it is. There never seems to be enough hours in the day. There's a whole process of properly sorting, cleaning & storing them, too, if one plans to make pillows with the small feathers. The larger flight and tail feathers are usually pretty beat up by the time they're molted, but if I see some perfect ones, I mail them to a place...I used to donate parrot feathers, when I ran a small rescue, but I do not have parrots anymore, I have pigeons & chickens. If anyone wants to donate molted feathers that are not beat up, check this out.

https://www.feathersfornativeamericans.com/about