Ended Official BYC Contest - Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures - 2022

[casportpony]

She is the top hen, why would she want to be separated?
Fancy Nancy was one year old in May.

Guess what? Fancy Nancy is getting her feathers back now, So many new pinfeathers!

Post more pictures!

 

[SueT]

Speck, our 6 yr old Sussex, is our only chicken that goes thru a dramatic molt. The others all seem to molt gradually.

 

[Idaho Chicken Bungalow]

I was looking for this! One of my poor English Orpington hens is getting hit hard this year!

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Bless her heart!

 

[the_peanut_coop]

My chickens have never moulted badly

 

[Poultrybonkers]

One of Beabras sisters decided to drop all her feathers

Poor thing looks like a porcupine!

Id say so lol

 

[3KillerBs]

One of Beanras sisters decided to drop all her feathers View attachment 3287874

Poor thing looks like a porcupine!

 

[Paradisewife]

Her sister Cagney was much less dramatic.

 

[3KillerBs]

By the standards of many molting hens here, Afredo, our Silver-Laced Cochin, doesn't look so bad.

But this girl is a MASSIVE overachiever.

I only collected eggs for 5 days and I figured that I was safe because she was molting and *shouldn't* be laying.

My "all Australorp" hatch has 4 babies with feathered feet and the only other feather-footed bird in the flock is an OE who is nowhere near laying yet.

 

[SmiYa0126]

My poor barnyard mix "fluffy" dh named her, she's bald from her pants to her shoulders.

 

[Sc_chickengirl]

He lost his tail! Now he's losing his neck feathers!