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windypines
True Blue Farmgirl

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Michele
Bruce Wisconsin
USA
4241 Posts
Posted - Oct 14 2008 :  5:11:30 PM  Show Profile
Here is a picture of the most a chicken can molt!



Actually she is starting to grow back the new feathers. But man does she look terrible. She is probley 3 years old, maybe 4.

Michele

kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl

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kristin
chickamauga ga
USA
11303 Posts
Posted - Oct 15 2008 :  05:41:23 AM  Show Profile
Apparently that's what mine are doing now. Pure ugly. And what a mess of feathers all over. And not a single egg. I am so disgusted with chickens right now. But I guess it's something they just gotta do.
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ddmashayekhi
True Blue Farmgirl

4743 Posts

Dawn
Naperville Illinois
USA
4743 Posts
Posted - Oct 15 2008 :  07:10:17 AM  Show Profile
Wow, that is one ugly bird! Is this one of your brown hens? Any of the others having this big a molt going on?

Dawn in IL
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Bellepepper
True Blue Farmgirl

1207 Posts

Belle
Coffeyville KS
USA
1207 Posts
Posted - Oct 15 2008 :  10:34:46 AM  Show Profile
My hens are heavy into the molt. Also not laying many eggs. My pullets are beginning to lay so last night we started culling the hens. A neighbor came and got 5 of them. Now on the way to the stew pot. Tocos and enchilidas more likely. We don't eat our hens. Just don't seem right. But then, I guess I have never been really hungry.
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MaryP
True Blue Farmgirl

58 Posts

Mary
Coeur d'Alene Idaho
USA
58 Posts
Posted - Oct 18 2008 :  3:10:15 PM  Show Profile
How about this ugly bird! Featherless chicken:
Edited by - MaryP on Oct 18 2008 3:11:31 PM
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl

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kristin
chickamauga ga
USA
11303 Posts
Posted - Oct 18 2008 :  4:41:56 PM  Show Profile
OMG! What is that? That is scary! Is it supposed to look like that? It seems like it'd be cold all the time, poor thing.
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ddmashayekhi
True Blue Farmgirl

4743 Posts

Dawn
Naperville Illinois
USA
4743 Posts
Posted - Oct 18 2008 :  6:58:38 PM  Show Profile
That will scare the pants off any tricks or treaters you get this year! Hard to tell who's bird is uglier, Michele's or Mary's!

Dawn in IL
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MaryP
True Blue Farmgirl

58 Posts

Mary
Coeur d'Alene Idaho
USA
58 Posts
Posted - Oct 18 2008 :  9:46:22 PM  Show Profile
hee hee it's not my bird. It's a genetically engineered chicken with no feathers.

http://www.nextnature.net/?p=668
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windypines
True Blue Farmgirl

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Michele
Bruce Wisconsin
USA
4241 Posts
Posted - Oct 19 2008 :  04:41:59 AM  Show Profile
That poor chicken. That is proof that nature should not be messed with.
Sorry about my picture being so small.

Michele
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