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

[achiekitty]

These pics are too funny and cute for words! My hens have alot of bare bellies so not worthy of even being far distant runner ups in this contest.

Now I REALLY know what the term ‘hard molt ‘ means!

I agree with you. Our EE, Goldie looks like a miniature dinosaur and a bit scary and pitiful, but nowhere near these girls. Next to them, Goldie only has a semi-hard molt.

 

[SueT]

Can we enter more than one photo?
This would be my 2nd, poor Charlotte the leghorn, feathers falling from her as she walks:

 

[Diamondpfarm]

Well I was going to post a few of ours but after looking at the Thread ours don’t look NEARLY as bad as some of those pitiful chickens....

 

[casportpony]

Well I was going to post a few of ours but after looking at the Thread ours don’t look NEARLY as bad as some of those pitiful chickens....

I wanna see your pictures!

 

[CCUK]

Well I was going to post a few of ours but after looking at the Thread ours don’t look NEARLY as bad as some of those pitiful chickens....

I wanna see your pictures!

X2

 

[casportpony]

Can we enter more than one photo?

Yes. No limit on the number of pictures of the same bird. No limit on the number of birds you can enter either.

 

[Frosty]

How about a molting Frizzle Polish? Think this is a hen or a roo?

Believe it or not, this is the same chicken now!

 

[CCUK]

Here's Pedro

With a lonesome tail feather

 

[PioneerChicks]

I have two questions.

Question one: when will this contest end? Not that I don't like looking at molting chickens, I just want to know.

Question two: My 6 year old RIR is in a molt, and she grew back her feathers everywhere except her bum still only has pin feathers. She has been like this for a week and a half, and I am starting to get worried. Could it be from lack of protein?

 

[Chickassan]

Nope, they don't preen the casings from the bum feathers as readily so it looks prickly longer, given the state of the neighborhood you can't blame them....ouch!

I have two questions.

Question one: when will this contest end? Not that I don't like looking at molting chickens, I just want to know.

Question two: My 6 year old RIR is in a molt, and she grew back her feathers everywhere except her bum still only has pin feathers. She has been like this for a week and a half, and I am starting to get worried. Could it be from lack of protein?