2018 Ugliest Molt winner

This year's prize for the ugliest molt in the chicken yard goes to Ducky, hubby's yard ornament rooster.  The hackle feathers pretty much all fell out a few days ago, but that doesn't seem to crimp his style with the young layer hens any.

Ducky's ugly molt

For the record, he is NOT a naked neck chicken, though he sure does look like one right now!  All the roosters are missing their tail feathers, except the youngest one hatched this spring.  I think even Mac Daddy, the remaining Silkie rooster, is actually missing tail feathers, but it's hard to tell on him.  It could just be that I gave him three new hens Saturday night, and he's been macking his tail fluff off since daybreak Sunday morning.