Ended Official BYC Contest - Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures - 2020

[Owntalin]

Alice is my Araucana. She had a bad moult at the beginning of Autumn/Winter this year (March in the Great Southern Land)

Here are some photos showing the feather loss and progress of new feathers.
It was a very educational, though distressing time. For me at least.

View attachment 2302341

She lost most of her feathers just as the cold weather started. Poor thing.
View attachment 2302342

View attachment 2302343

It looks really uncomfortable. I feel itchy just looking at her!
View attachment 2302344View attachment 2302345View attachment 2302346

She's not in time out, really! She's standing in the only bit of sun she could find.
View attachment 2302348

Looking more like a secretary bird than a chicken!
View attachment 2302349View attachment 2302350

Trying to warm up with what's left of her flight feathers.
View attachment 2302352View attachment 2302353

My little porcupine.
View attachment 2302355


There are a lot more photos of her, if anyone is a glutton for punishment, in the article I made documenting her moult.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/alices-amazing-moult-molt.75749/

Ohhhh my goodness! Poor little thing! Yeah I bet that was distressing! Ohh my goodness didn't know they moulted!

However.... The winner is... slightly obvious!

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Ohhhh my goodness! Poor little thing! Yeah I bet that was distressing! Ohh my goodness didn't know they moulted!

However.... The winner is... slightly obvious!

There's still lots of time before the end of the competition!

(Still, it would be sad if she went through all that for nothing! )

 

[aart]

End date is probably in December, so plenty of time left!

The other ones didn't end until almost spring....or later?
Plus gotta give the other side of the world a chance, right?

 

[mandymcg05]

There's still lots of time before the end of the competition!

(Still, it would be sad if she went through all that for nothing! )

That poor baby lol. I haven’t experienced this yet but I’m sure it will be traumatic when it happens lol. Did you have to separate her from the flock? Do they pick on the less fortunate?

 

[cluckcluckhens]

Not sure if our young ones will molt this year or not. They are 14 months old. All of them went through a mini molt last year. No signs yet, let's keep it this way for a while.

 

[aart]

Not sure if our young ones will molt this year or not. They are 14 months old. All of them went through a mini molt last year. No signs yet, let's keep it this way for a while.

Was that a juvenile molt?
At 14 months now they should molt this fall.

 

[Kiki]

@R2elk Where you asking about this contest?
I can't remember who mentioned this one recently.

 

[R2elk]

@R2elk Where you asking about this contest?
I can't remember who mentioned this one recently.

Nope, I posted links to it in a number of threads when it was first announced. All of my birds are doing slow molts. Other than the number of feathers on the ground, you wouldn't even know a molt was going on.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

That poor baby lol. I haven’t experienced this yet but I’m sure it will be traumatic when it happens lol. Did you have to separate her from the flock? Do they pick on the less fortunate?

She had moulted the winter before but not as hard a this.

The flock did not pick on her as far as I could tell and she needed them to keep her warm!

 

[SueT]

My rooster is molting and lost all but one of his proud tail feathers! He looks so ridiculous walking around like this....but this last feather has hung on for days now.