Balding chicken head

[Peepchirpquack]

I have noticed that my hen's head has been balding. I don't think it is from other chickens pecking her, because she is at the top of the pecking order.

 

[MrsBrooke]

Do you have a rooster?

MrsB

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Do you have a rooster?

 

[MrsBrooke]

Jinx!

MrsB

 

[Peepchirpquack]

I saw her lay an egg

 

[MrsBrooke]

I saw her lay an egg

Yes, but do you keep a rooster on your property?

If a rooster treads a hen, he will grab the feathers on/around her head ad he does so = potential feather loss.

Also check for external parasites around her earlobes.

MrsB

 

[Peepchirpquack]

We do not own a rooster. I will check for parasites

 

[Peepchirpquack]

I didn't see any parasites

 

[Peepchirpquack]

Could she be molting?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Molt doesn't look like that and if you're in the Northern hemisphere, wrong time of year. She's not losing feathers elsewhere.
Perhaps she got into a spat with another hen and was scalped.