pictures of molting chicken?

[frizzleman74]

i have 11 chicks right now and an 11 month RIR and bantam frizzle. I would like to know what to expect when a chicken begins to molt. Doesn't matter the breed, just go at it!

 

[ADozenGirlz]

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You want molting pictures, we've got molting pictures!!

This is Phoebe pre-molt:

And during:

This Easter Egger in the front isn't wind-blown, she's ragged looking from molting:

Those are just two of my girls but here's an entire thread dedicated to severe molting (not the norm):
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=257565

 

[whiteflare]

Wow. Looking at the pics of Phoebe... now I can be pretty sure that none of my hens have molted yet. Despite the fact that they're nearly three years old!

 

[ADozenGirlz]

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[Ridgerunner]

I'd suggest you look more at the Easter Egger than the Silkie. The Silkie looks like an extreme case. I seldom have any that look that bad. With some of mine, they look a bit rough but the only way I really know they are molting is that I see a lot of fresh feathers, though some are more evident. And they don't all molt at the same time. Each chicken looks different when molting.

 

[paigeandclyde]

my chickens are molting too. they have big patches without feathers haha

 

[ADozenGirlz]

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Phoebe isn't a Silkie, she's a bantam Cochin Frizzle, and you're right, she I'd certainly NOT the norm, that was an extreme case of hideous molting. Poor Phoebe. The indignity.

 

[key west chick]

Tomorrow I will try to get pictures of Roadkill molting. He is my bantam frizzled NN. Last year I checked him daily for lice, mites, fleas, ticks, anything that would make him look so hideous. Nope, nothing, just a really, really bad molt. And its starting again now. Poor guy. He looks awful. Here he is, it will only get worse...

 

[ADozenGirlz]

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OMG!!!!

Now THAT is a wicked molt!

 

[key west chick]

Last year I really thought something was wrong with him. I though he either had some kind of blood sucking cooties or some serious feather picking was going on. Nope, just a real bad molt. Takes him forever to grow his feathers back in too. Here he is normally.