Ended Official BYC Contest - Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures - 2021

[CrazyCochin]

{Non frizzle} And one of our poor poor Welsummer hens.... Another beauty that became a beast.

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I'll have to check again, but that wayward feather may have come off.... But then again, we have two wellies that look like this.

 

[WallacetheKhakiCampbell]

This is not a entry but my poor 2 year old Smudge he is Blue marans beautiful bird. Looks like a bad puller right now.View attachment 2822431

My BlueCM Looks EXACTLY the same rn!

 

[Run Amock DucksNChickens]

It's the beginning of Spring here down under, but I'll take some photo's when it happens and save them for next year.

Loving all these featherless birds lol.

 

[cherrynberry]

Non Frizzle.


This is Dumpling. She started her molt about half a month ago, but lost a bunch of feathers overnight. Her tail is pretty much gone now and she is growing lots of pin feathers. Have not seen her lay an egg in a while.

 

[BarnyardChaos]

Meet Olivia, a Rhode Island Red hen about 3 years old. I have several girls and boys in various stages of molt, but she is by far the most naked. Poor girl!

 

[cherrynberry]

Meet Olivia, a Rhode Island Red hen about 3 years old. I have several girls and boys in various stages of molt, but she is by far the most naked. Poor girl! View attachment 2828423View attachment 2828424

She is going to look real pretty afterwards!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Non Frizzle.


This is Dumpling. She started her molt about half a month ago, but lost a bunch of feathers overnight. Her tail is pretty much gone now and she is growing lots of pin feathers. Have not seen her lay an egg in a while.

They can't lay when they are molting it takes all they have to build feathers same with a rooster when they molt

 

[cherrynberry]

They can't lay when they are molting it takes all they have to build feathers same with a rooster when they molt

I have some that do, but they are going through a lighter molt. I think it depends on the individual

But yes, I expected the egg production to drop. Its almost time to deworm them!

 

[microchick]

I finally got out with the camera. The rooster I wanted to enter a pic of didn't want to cooperate with the camera but then I remembered this guy in the bachelor coop.

This is Indy, he is 4-5 years old and is an Amish barnyard cross of black Game Bird and BBR bantam. He is usually an iridescent black with purple highlights and has brown hackle feathers. Very striking looking when he isn't looking like he did two rounds with a chicken plucker.

 

[Killyhawker]

even hatching chicks…bare back, scraggly tail, bare belly… growing back nicely. She’s such a typical, but pretty to me, Mille Fluer Barbu d’Ucclé.