bald chickens

[courtyard92180]

I have heard recently that bald chickens on the back are not laying because they are malting. I had four roosters and just thought that they were beating up the hens. I thought that malting occurred in the fall. Someone told me that if the chicken has a bald back, it means that it is not laying. Is this true? Or is it from the roosters being too rough?

 

[alex]

I think its from the roosters because i have never heard of a chicken getting bald on her back because of laying. When they molt....they molt all over not only the back.