Ended Official BYC Contest: Worst Chicken Molt Pictures, Fall-Winter 2013

[Nambroth]

WalkingOnSunshine, I have noticed that this particular color/pattern of EE tend to have these terrible molts! If you look through this thread and the ones from years past, the EEs with this coloration seem to pop up a lot. It must be genetic!

 

[Nambroth]

She won't win, but here's poor Willow (an easter egger), entering "All Other Breeds"
Her back is entirely pinfeathers too, but we put a protective fleece "cape" on her to keep the other chickens from trying to eat her pinfeathers.

"Are you seriously taking my photo when I look like this?!"

Here she is today. Most of her pinfeathers are grown out. This post is not an entry in the contest, but is more for a 'before and after' photo for those that are curious!!


Looking just a little better....!!
She still has a few feathers to grow in on her back. She hasn't started laying again but seems to think about the nest box more than she was before. It has been about 10 weeks so far. About 12 weeks since her last egg.

 

[Lisa and girls]

Sorry for the some what blurry pics. Hard to get my little Dora to sit still. She just kept running away and looking at me like 'why are you taking pics of my butt?' Bare belly, bare butt, had to enter her.

 

[Emma61]

 

[mamabigbird]

I thought my 18 month RIR/mutt cross was going to pass up on the moult as all the others are pretty much fluffed out again and Vicky kept her feathers. Well about two days ago she bombed the coop with her feathers and I could barely even tell who she was when I saw her running around with bare legs and bare butt. Poor thing looks miserable and we're just about to have a cold snap.
Here's a pic of her in full moult. She tweeky so pics are a bit blurry.

 

[miquwid]

Poor girl, what she eating?

 

[mamabigbird]

I threw them some bread just so I would have some hope of getting a pic.
She still wouldn't stand still though.

 

[makluvsanimals]

categoryther breeds
these pictures make her molt look good...its not good at all....she lost all her tail feathers.....she no longer looks like a pearl leghorn...poor opal

 

[miquwid]

Poor baby

 

[StudioHens]

I feel like if I saw one of my birds molt like this I might freak out a little. lol