Ended Official BYC Contest - Post your best (worst) chicken molt pics!

[LunaTheSickChick]

This is Coconut my Frizzle X
Not sure what the cross it though..

This looks great. I have a couple of hens molting. I'll enter when I've taken a few pics

-Jet

 

[LunaTheSickChick]

Chickens Are Molting - We Want Your Pics!​

It's that time of year again where our birds start their metamorphosis into... well, okay, they don't turn into anything, but it sure is interesting to see them go through their molting process and leaving feathers all over the place!

For more information on your flock's annual molt, see here:

• What Happens When Chickens Molt?
• Chickens Loosing Feathers? Managing Your Flock's Molt
• Molting- Your Flock's Seasonal Shedding
  
• DISCUSSION: For the new folks that haven't experienced a molt yet.

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The contest is simple: Post pictures of your birds in the worst part of their molt. Once we're past the molting season our esteemed panel of judges will pick a loser... er... winner!

We will have two categories:

"Frizzle" and "All Other Breeds" (on account of Frizzles having some pretty bad molting genes and winning this contest for a few years). Please state which category you are entering when posting your pics!

Prizes:

There will be two winners per category, the first place winners will receive a $50 gift certificate to the BYC Store and the second place winners will each receive a free 6 month Premium Feather Membership for themselves or a friend.

The rules are simple too:

1. Must be your chicken
2. Must be a picture taken THIS YEAR, so probably within the last few weeks and over the next couple months (depending on your climate, birds, etc.)
3. Must say which category you're entering in

Good luck to you and your ugly... er.. molting chickens!

Here is the winner of our previous contest, entered by missesball

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When it says category what to you mean ?
I'm all new to this

 

[LunaTheSickChick]

This is coconut my frizzle not sure on age but I brought her last year in November she was e same size.
I'm entering her in the wort molt comp

 

[PeepersMama]

When it says category what to you mean ?
I'm all new to this

The two categories are frizzle and non frizzle, since frizzles tend to have much more... Interesting molts than birds with normal feathers.

 

[MagpieDucks]

When it says category what to you mean ?
I'm all new to this

Yours is in the frizzle category.

 

[LunaTheSickChick]

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This is coconut my frizzle not sure on age but I brought her last year in November she was e same size.
I'm entering her in the wort molt comp

She is a frizzle in frizzle section for Como lol

 

[Allie Grace Sanders]

Here is my 10 1\2 month old ISA Brown. "All other breeds"

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Olive, my faverolle mix hen, "All Other Breeds"

 

[Hensndoes]

All other breeds.

Ricky. 1 1/2 yr old GLW. Pic taken Oct 13, 2017. My hens all molted in fall. Didn't see this then but just had to share the pitty.

 

[SilkiesnFrizzle]

Her is my poor girl Frizz....she's a frizzle.