Open Contest Official BYC Contest—Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures - 2025

[Lacy Duckwing]

Update: (Sorry I wasn't able to edit to add these to post #34)
Here's my beautifully pathetic-looking hen. She's still losing feathers while also half growing others.

Instead of a fuzzy turkey head, she is sporting a Mohawk and 5-o-clock shadow.


For some reason the undercarriage hasn't molted yet, so she appears to be wearing fluffy pants

No worries! That is perfectly fine!
I love the 'pants'.

 

[Minanora]

Peaches!
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She's a 3 year old sapphire olive egger. She molts much harder than the rest of my flock. My DH thought we had lost a chicken to a predator because of all the feathers in the yard

More photos from today of peaches.

I can't stop laughing.

One more for the derpy feet.

Plus two more just because.

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

More photos from today of peaches.

I can't stop laughing.

One more for the derpy feet.

Plus two more just because.

Love it! She's looking better already!

 

[N3mesis_IceWing_NightWing]

XD nice looking molts heh

 

[NorthwoodsChick]

She looks like she has some nice feathers coming in. Molting or not, she sure looks pretty!

Thanks- She’s at the end of molt- Her entire back was pin feathers 3 weeks ago (when I didn’t think to take photos)

 

[BackyardinWales]

My poor Mary. Her first proper moult, and besides scaring me with white feathers everywhere that looked like someone had been killed, bless her (her sisters are moulting too, but not as noticeably) she has lost her tail. Pooe girl.

 

[BackyardinWales]

Cheetah
My Sunburnt FRIZZLE EE
She started molting at the end of last winter.
My rooster liked her A LOT!


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Awwwww bless her

 

[heatherbeast]

Entry 1:
Name: Jolene
Breed: Fayoumi/Starlight Green Egger mix

This is what she gets for taking Dolly's man! More pics to come in the next day or so.

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Ah, I waited too late to edit! Here are more pics of Jolene being scruffy. She is CRANKY!

Watch out, Jazz Hands, she's gonna beat you up!

 

[heatherbeast]

Name: Chicken Nugget
Breed: Cinnamon Queen

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Forbidden porcupine:
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Filling in a bit:
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Oooooh whee! She's a contender!

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

My poor Mary. Her first proper moult, and besides scaring me with white feathers everywhere that looked like someone had been killed, bless her (her sisters are moulting too, but not as noticeably) she has lost her tail. Pooe girl.

Another tailless one, lol. Don't worry, you're not the first (even on this thread) that had a scare that something got a chicken by the feathers everywhere.