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

I'm so glad for contests like this... so I know what to expect when my girls get naked this year for the first time. My poor husband is going to have fits if he sees a bad one, and my youngest is going to have to leave the poor grumpy girls alone. She loves to sit and cuddle and preen them... but I think its more of a struggle snuggle.
 
Chickens Are Molting - We Want Your Pics!

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This is Lucy, a Welsummer, taken the tail end of 2017 (not exactly sure)
 

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OMG I’ve lived on farms most of my life and always had chickens but never experienced an obvious molt. Is this just because of extreme temperatures? We have had times with some downy feathers around but never baldy chooks. Can any other Aussies shed some light on this for me please! I have seen chickens around the traps that have been roughed up by roosters before, missing feathers on their backs.
 

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