it may be where comb is developing. Not sound like pecking as its not bloodyHi I have an issue I would like anyone's advice on. I have a group of nine six week old chicks with their mother hen and they are all quite well feathered now apart from their heads. Yesterday I noticed one of the chicks has a bald patch on the back of his head/top of his neck at the back which would have been fluffy not feathery. Its a clear strip of bald skin. How has this happened? Is it the fluff falling out, or has he been pecked by the others? Is this a sign of illness? I'm worried.