Open Contest Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures - 2024

[Lacy Duckwing]

Breed = Battery Hen
Name = Hatty (because she looks like she needs a hat)
(She did look worse but i didn't get any pictures when she did)
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Breed = Battery Hen
Name = Hazel
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WOW! You've got some really rough looking girls there! Hatty is very impressive with her molt!
Is this their first molt with you? If not, has their molts always been this rough?

 

[Blue is my chicken]

WOW! You've got some really rough looking girls there! Hatty is very impressive with her molt!
Is this their first molt with you? If not, has their molts always been this rough?

This is their first molt with us but she looked worse when we got her (we have had them maybe a month maybe a bit less)
I think it was the stress of living on the egg farm that made her (and her friend) lose so many feathers but she is regrowing her feathers

 

[Carters Chick House]

Breed = Battery Hen
Name = Hatty (because she looks like she needs a hat)
(She did look worse but i didn't get any pictures when she did)
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Oh my. She looks miserable.

 

[Blue is my chicken]

Oh my. She looks miserable.

She may look it but she is so much happier

 

[Carters Chick House]

She may look it but she is so much happier

Mine felt like a porcupine. I was afraid to touch her.

 

[fowltemptress]

My worst molter this year is my cranky mess, Elise. Elise is an Easter Egger and has decided as long as she has to suffer, she's going to attack everyone so that they suffer, too.

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

My worst molter this year is my cranky mess, Elise. Elise is an Easter Egger and has decided as long as she has to suffer, she's going to attack everyone so that they suffer, too.

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Oh, bad birdy. But do you blame her?

 

[NanaK]

This is Savannah my Cream Legbar.
She was not real happy being photographed.

 

[fuzzi]

Here is Boudicca..She is our pretty Speckled Sussex..But look at the pretty girl, only 1 tailfeather left...View attachment 3950251

Poor baby.

My Speckled Sussex (bantams) are about 19 months and not laying, a few feathers dangling but not worthy of entering here.

Martha is irritated with all her flockmates, think she is molting? Her head is looking bare.

 

[fuzzi]

This is Savannah my Cream Legbar.
She was not real happy being photographed.

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Oh my, the expression on her face!