Ended Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures - 2024

[Lacy Duckwing]

Winners announced here!​

This contest is brought to you by our BYC Sponsors
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Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures - 2024
Are Your Chickens Molting?
We Want Your Pics!
Ends December 31st, 2024

It's that time of year again when our birds start their metamorphosis into... well, okay, they don't turn into anything, but it sure is interesting to see them go through their molting process and leaving feathers all over the place!
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For more information on your flock's annual molt, see here:

• Molting: All You Need To Know
• What Happens When Chickens Molt?
• Chickens Losing Feathers? Managing Your Flock's Molt
• Molting- Your Flock's Seasonal Shedding
• DISCUSSION: For the new folks that haven't experienced a molt yet.

How to enter
The contest is simple, post pictures of your birds in the worst part of their molt. Once we're past the molting season, our esteemed panel of judges will pick a loser... er... winner!

The rules are simple too:

1. An entry is up to 50 pictures of your molting chicken. Please include:
   • Name
   • Breed
2. Chickens only.
3. If you have more than one chicken to enter, do them in separate posts.
4. Must be your pictures that were taken THIS YEAR, so probably within the last few weeks and over the next few months (depending on your climate, birds, etc.).
5. Molt pictures submitted to our previous molt contests are not eligible for this contest.
6. Images that have been resized might be disqualified if they are too small to judge.
7. ALL pictures MUST be uploaded to BYC and not hosted on other image sites, personal websites, etc.
8. No screenshots, watermarks, date stamps, text, etc., on the photo. No collages.
9. The photo needs to have been taken by you.
10. You cannot use a photo that won an award in another BYC-sponsored contest.
11. High-quality images are recommended. Basic editing, such as cropping and other subtle changes, are allowed.
12. ALL photos MUST be uploaded to BYC and not hosted on other image sites, personal websites, etc.
13. Prizes are limited to one per person per contest.
14. All BYC rules apply: Terms and rules
15. Accepting entries through December 31st, 2024, at 11:59 pm Pacific Time

Good luck to you and your ugly... er.. molting chickens!

Prizes:

Place	Prize
1st	12-month PFM and a 2025 BYC Calendar
2nd	6-month PFM and a 2025 BYC Calendar
3rd	3-month PFM and a 2025 BYC Calendar
4th	3-month PFM and a 2025 BYC Calendar

If entries warrant, we will have two categories, "Frizzle" and "Non-Frizzles" (on account of Frizzles having some pretty bad molting genes and winning this contest for a few years

), and the following prizes will be awarded to both categories.

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2023 Winners

From left to right, photos by @guess_what, @coach723, @fowltemptress, & @MT813

2022 Frizzle Winners

From left to right, photos by @gimmie birdies, @taprock, & @kurby22
See more pictures here.

2022 Non-Frizzle Winners

From left to right, photos by: @Poultrybonkers, @HorseGirlAbby, @Artichoke Lover, @pipdzipdnreadytogo, @Judy Chicken Mama, @Paradisewife, @cluckingheck, @OneMountainAcres, & @Miss Cheep
See more pictures here.

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2021 Winners

From left to right: @The Moonshiner , @Naisha, @higginskzoo, @locoyosh, @SteveE, @Wildgrass, & @wolfinator
See more pictures here.

2020 Contest​

Non-Frizzle Category	Frizzle Category
@Aussie-Chookmum See more pictures here.	@Dorothy Dandurand See more pictures here.

Previous Molt Contests

Year	Thread
2022	Official BYC Contest - Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures - 2022
2021	Official BYC Contest - Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures - 2021
2020	Official BYC Contest - Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures - 2020
2019	Official BYC Contest - Post your best (worst) chicken molt pics!
2018	Official BYC Contest - Post your best (worst) chicken molt pics!
2017	Official BYC Contest - Post your best (worst) chicken molt pics!
2016	Official BYC Contest - Worst Chicken Molt Pictures - Fall-Winter 2016
2015	Official BYC Contest - Worst Chicken Molt Pictures - Fall/Winter 2015
2014	Official BYC Contest - Worst Chicken Molt Pictures - Fall/Winter 2014
2013	Official BYC Contest: Worst Chicken Molt Pictures, Fall-Winter 2013
2012	Official BYC Contest: Worst Chicken Molt Pictures - Fall/Winter 2012
2011	Official BYC Contest: Worst Chicken Molt Pictures - Fall / Winter 2011

 

[CCsGarden]

I can't wait! I have some pictures!

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

 

[Debbie292d]

*Not an entry.

Charlotte! My beautiful fluffy gorgeous silkie! This is from a couple of days ago. We've determined she bleached out this summer, so the change is so drastic now!

Before:

 

[chooki]

 

[chooki]

I must repent - I love to look at other people's half bald chickens!

My chickens are not as courages - they don't go nearly as naked.

 

[fuzzi]

Abigail
Dominique (bantam)

Stay tuned...

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

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I see some nasty looking pins there... and she doesn't look pleased! What's her name?

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

Abigail
Dominique (bantam)
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Stay tuned...

Yay! I can't wait to see her process!

 

[chooki]

I see some nasty looking pins there... and she doesn't look pleased! What's her name?

Her name is Mahua, I have used other pictures of her in another competition, but yeah, same chicken.