Ended Official BYC Contest—Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures—Fall/Winter 2018

[Chickielady]

Where is all the good pics ?
Out of 100 chickens I have, none have had much of a molt this summer.
Almost boring!

 

[geina]

Here’s my little mounting chick Frankie no Feathers. Taken 9-19-18.

 

[geina]

View attachment 1538790 Here’s my little mounting chick Frankie no Feathers. Taken 9-19-18.

Other breeds plz

 

[CityChicks361]

I’m honestly a bit excited for the moult. Our chickens are a little over a year old and for some reason a 3 of them have bald behinds. I’m looking forward to them (hopefully!) having butt feathers again!

 

[AdelleSV]

For all other breeds: My goofiest lady with 5 o’clock shadow and what I did with the feather explosion.

 

[Bantambuff]

My hen and roo have just started today. There was quite an explosion of feathers.☺

 

[KellyJean]

Goldie went into a hard molt right after getting a hormone implant. This was her first real molt at 2 1/2 years old. Even though she went totally bald this is my favorite pic of her with those funny looking tail feathers.

 

[akidleativy2]

I went out to my coop this morning and it looked like a chicken exploded! Feathers everywhere! The molting has begun!

 

[PetraMarco]

Frizzle, I felt so sorry for this one, but she is just happy chick.

 

[carrierose]

My molting baby

This looks more like damage from an overzealous rooster. I have many hens with bare backs from young overzealous roosters. Be sure to take the sharp points off the rooster's spurs or your hens will have tears in their skin that other chickens will peck at and turn into horrible sores.