Unofficial BYC Other Fowl Molt Contest - Three Prizes!

[casportpony]

Winners Announced Here!

Unofficial BYC Other Fowl Molt Contest​

Are Your Other Fowl Molting?
We Want Your Pics!

It's that time of year again where 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!

For more information on your flock's annual molt, see here:

• 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. Must be your other fowl (turkey, peafowl, duck, guinea fowl, quail, etc., anything but a chicken).
2. No picture limit, post as many pictures of your bird as you want.
3. If you have more than one bird to enter, do them in separate posts.
4. Must be your pictures.
5. ALL pictures MUST be uploaded to BYC and not hosted on other image sites, personal websites, etc.

Good luck to you and your ugly... er.. molting other fowl!

Prizes

Place	Prize
First Place	A 1-year PFM ($60 value) for yourself or a friend.
Second Place	A 6-month PFM ($35 value) for yourself or a friend.
Third Place	A 3-month PFM ($20 value) for yourself or a friend.

This contest is open to all BYC members where the contest complies with local laws/ordinances. All BYC rules apply: Terms of Service (Rules)

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Not an entry but my poor Sweet Pea tends to molt hard. This was 2 years ago lol

 

[007Sean]

Although these pics have never been entered in a contest, they have been in an album and looked at by a few thousand viewers.
Here's some before/after and during molt pics.

 

[007Sean]

After 15 years this one met its fate 3 days ago with a raccoon that dug under the apron and into the pen.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Pics or it didn't happen.

look how he hangs his head in shame

 

[The Phantom]

Here is my poor hooded merganser drake coming back into color. A few pictures before and after

 

[Bantambird]

Rosabelle is molting. She's also pretty grouchy and trying to pick fights through the fence! She put her nest in a bad location twice this year so no poults for her, which is a first for a while! However, Annabelle co nested with Blackie, and boy was Rosabelle mad! I tried letting her out the other day after breaking her off her most recent bad decision nest spot, and she was so intent on stealing Annabelle and Blackie's poults that she really barked up her face! Silly girl! So now she's just gonna have to sit tight with the hens until she settles down, probably after the Big Molt.

 

[casportpony]

A HUGE THANK YOU to all who participated, this wouldn't have been possible without all of your entries!!!! Great job everyone, this was so much fun!!

Now, for the moment you've all been waiting for! The judges have finished with their decisions and we have winners!

@OneMountainAcres, @daynedoe, & @WannaBeHillBilly



First Place - @OneMountainAcres ​

Second Place - @daynedoe​

Third Place - @WannaBeHillBilly ​

I will be sending you instructions on how to claim your prizes momentarily!
~ Shout out to all of the judges that took the time to go through all of the entries. I know it was incredibly difficult to judge and I appreciate all of you! ~

And huge THANK YOU to our sponsor!

 

[Nabiki]

I have feathers everywhere in my yard right now. This guy looks the worst.

 

[R2elk]