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

[fowltemptress]

Okay! This weird, scraggly thing used to be an Easter Egger hen named Cinder. I'm not sure when the metamorphosis happened - it's like a couple days ago I had a hen, but yesterday I looked out and it's like Cronenberg had visited the coop. Unlike my other bad molter this year, though, Cinder gets sweeter instead of crankier, and she seeks out other chickens to snuggle against.

 

[NorthwoodsChick]

I love this description for roosters; I'm stealing it! I already get a bunch of flack from a couple of my friends for often using the word "sexy" as a descriptor for my birds, so I might as well double down.

This would be a great adult thread. How to describe your co… eh-hem, rooster.

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

Awesome birds so far everyone! Some of them are almost painful just to look at!

 

[EChicky]

Entry 1: Molly and Doty. They may look crazy, but at least they’re molting together.

 

[EChicky]

Entry 2: Trixy. She only has one tail feather

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

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Entry 2: Trixy. She only has one tail feather

Oh, I love the one tail feather.

 

[CCsGarden]

RIP Petra
She was in a hard molt and after she grew her beautiful feathers in, she died.

Breed: Black Laced Wyandotte
Name: Petra ( which means Rock)
There is a story behind her.

Entry 1

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

RIP Petra
She was in a hard molt and after she grew her beautiful feathers in, she died.

Breed: Black Laced Wyandotte
Name: Petra ( which means Rock)
There is a story behind her.

Entry 1
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So sorry for your loss.

If you want, feel free to share her story.

 

[CCsGarden]

So sorry for your loss.

If you want, feel free to share her story.

I would be it might be graphic for some!

 

[Bolfreak]

Not an entry, my Narragansett hen Bill’s first horrid molt. I caught her and checked her for parasites it was so bad At least the feathers are coming back in, she just looked plucked for a long time