Post Pics Of Your Chicken With Worst Molt

[CarriBrown]

Poor Potpie was literally full of pinfeathers! Not a feather on the girl. It was pouring rain outside here in SoCal. Then, raining one day, 99 degrees the next... and Potpie's pin feathers were feathers. The poor girl can't win for losing! Pin feathers in the rain, new feathers in the heat!

 

[canada-goose]

Some of those birds look terrible! Poor things, all those pinfeathers must hurt.

 

[BarkerChickens]

Frenchie had her first molt ever (last year)...and decided she needed ALL new feather (minus about 5 wing feathers). I don't have a pic of her at her worst, but here are two pics when the feathers started coming back in. Pardon the yellow skin, her an another BR hen got attacked by two stray miniature pinschers that got into our yard. Both recovered 100% and getting ready for this years molt (I hope she molts like this again! She's looking scraggly!).

 

[cwhit590]

Yikes! None of my girls have molted as hard as y'alls hens yet! I still have a couple to go yet tho...
Some of them look half chicken, half hedgehog!

 

[insiderart]

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I enjoy how Frenchie decided to keep those 5 feathers!

Hmmmm I think I'll need all new feathers now, 'oh, except for these 5 (just in case I need to fly)'.

 

[Mahonri]

I have feathers all over the coop, but the only one that looks like she is missing any is my EE "Sunshine"... her muffs and beard are gone and part of the feathers on her back. (no roo involved) I'm guessing one of the other girls didn't like the way she looked.

 

[emjay]

so do the other hens peck at teh birds who are molting that bad, seem like easy targets for attack, or do you seperate them when they look that bad. wow. I hope my girls don't go that bald, haha. funny though.

 

[thecochincoop]

wow I have never seen birds molt like that. mine are so fluffy that all you notice is all the feathers that make me double check to see if a critter got in, funny but not, I actually did a head count since my last splash just decided to molt and it looked like a dog killed a pillow out there.

 

[BarkerChickens]

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I enjoy how Frenchie decided to keep those 5 feathers!

Hmmmm I think I'll need all new feathers now, 'oh, except for these 5 (just in case I need to fly)'.

My favorite one is the lonesome feather on her right wing. She looked so funny when she would flap her wings.

 

[Marlinchaser]

I am glad I clicked on this thread, I thought it said chicken with the worst MOLD, and all I could think of is I still havent got rid of the Chicken stir fry thats been lurking in the back of the frige. Didnt really want to take a picture of that, but I think I would have won if there was a prize.