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

[microchick]

This is Little S**t. Yep, fill in the blanks, that is his legitimate name. He kept escaping, I kept catching him. Finally said, 'You Little S**t stay in your pen! and the name stuck. He started this molt in July and got a lot worse before he started looking better. I also affectionalty called him Coyote Ugly during his molt. The only pretty thing bout him was his personality, LOL

He is a Black OEGB crossed with a Bantam Cochin. So guess he would be considered an 'other'.

 

[ronott1]

View attachment 1571053 This is Little S**t. Yep, fill in the blanks, that is his legitimate name. He kept escaping, I kept catching him. Finally said, 'You Little S**t stay in your pen! and the name stuck. He started this molt in July and got a lot worse before he started looking better. I also affectionalty called him Coyote Ugly during his molt. The only pretty thing bout him was his personality, LOL

He is a Black OEGB crossed with a Bantam Cochin. So guess he would be considered an 'other'.

Poor Thing!

 

[apryl29]

This is my entry for the "All other breeds" category.
Dovey's been noticeably molting for a little more than a week. Right now she looks like she's chosen a porcupine costume for Halloween. She had a few days where her pin feathers hadn't come in and she looked like someone had plucked a chicken for processing and changed their mind part way in. She spends her days sitting in the corner all puffed up like she's angry at the world.

 

[WVduckchick]

 

[N F C]

This is my entry for the "All other breeds" category.
Dovey's been noticeably molting for a little more than a week. Right now she looks like she's chosen a porcupine costume for Halloween. She had a few days where her pin feathers hadn't come in and she looked like someone had plucked a chicken for processing and changed their mind part way in. She spends her days sitting in the corner all puffed up like she's angry at the world.
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I can understand why she's so angry...who wouldn't be when you look your worst and someone insists on taking a picture!

Poor girl!

 

[apryl29]

Tina update.. she looks like a hedgehog
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That just looks painful.
How do they break open the pin feathers on their head? Rub them against something, or do they break open on their own at some point?

 

[silkiemother]

is that a muff I spy?and sorry if any photos or posts I put on here are weird,my computer doesn't really like me and it will add stuff or switch stuff without me,or my family, knowing

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

That just looks painful.
How do they break open the pin feathers on their head? Rub them against something, or do they break open on their own at some point?

I don't know

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

Not an entry since she's not a chicken but My turkey hen, Sweet Pea is in a sad state at the moment!

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Love that her face isn't in these pictures. Like she's trying to hide she's so embarrassed.

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

Shadow my OE lamenting the loss of all those feathers.
As a rooster favorite she wears a saddle and I checked her to see how it was-- every time I touched her handfuls of feathers came off.
All other category.