Question about Molting

[LittleChickenRacingTeam]

If this is the pic you were thinking of, the chicken was bred to be featherless. It's not molting, and always looks like this.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

AAAUUUUUGGGGGG!!!!
MY EYES!! MY EYES!!!

 

[seismic wonder2]

ack.

What's next? A horse with no legs? Fly with no wings? (technicaly I guess it would then be a walk...)

People keep messing around trying to figure out if the COULD do something without thinking about if they SHOULD do something.

Poor Bird.

 

[GoodyChickenShz]

That first barred rock is a rooster, right? Sure looks funny without it's tail feathers. The next barred rock hen looks exactly like mine right now! And here I was thinking she was being chewed to death by bugs! My white rock looks a lot like that too. And, OMG, that last little boy. So feisty looking too!

 

[ChicknThief]

Quote:
*slips on her sunglasses*

Yup, thats the one!

Don't know what made me think it was Big Red though.... Oh well.

 

[lewisfarmgurl]

WHY WOULD ANYONE DO THAT TO A CHICKEN!!!

Sorry, it just upset me so to see something like that. I feel like crying for it.!

It looks like it has a realy bad sun burn.......someone get it some SPF 1000.

 

[ChicknThief]

It is certainly an aweful thing, but you may rest assured that that chicken is probably not sunburned. Chicken skin turns permanantly red when exposed to sunlight. Just like how Turken necks turn red shortly after being turned out of the brooder. Besides, that chicken probably spends more time in a lab than outside.

 

[basicliving]

I had a hard time believing that featherless chicken above was real. I did a little searching and found this though http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2307-featherless-chicken-creates-a-flap.html Unbelievable.

Penny

 

[CherylNJ]

I'm eighteen to nineteen months into my chicken raising. I know that's about the time they start to molt. I check on my girls at least twice a day if not more so. This morning when I let them out I only seen the typical feather here and there. I came home from work today to let them out and at first I thought something got in my coop and killed my brahma. There is feathers from one end of the run to the other and inside the coop. My other three have not started although they are all different birds. Is it normal for them to lose that many feathers all at once.

 

[lazy gardener]

Some birds molt slowly. Others look like the aftermath of a pillow fight, and look like they should be packed in cellophane and placed in the meat case at the local grocer. In theory, the ones that molt fast and get it over with so they can get back to the business of laying eggs are more productive.