bare spot, broken feather - picking, pecking, mites, or just molting???

[Kagen]

Have one year old hens. One of which an Easter Egger has missing feathers on both sides of neck and head. Not sure photo does a great job of showing that base of at least the bigger feathers is still there.
This bird is not at bottom of pecking order (huge for easter egger, bigger than black cross, Bard rock or the 3 amber tetras) and when I come out a few times a day with extra food or scratch there isn't any issues in front of me between birds, the order seems established and not much aggression shown.

So being a first year to have grown hens, is this:

Mites, self scratching, other(s) pecking, or what molt looks like? The apparent broken feathers has me thinking not molting as I'm asking don't they just fall completely out?

This is only bird with issue, my 4 year old named her Wild-Duck full name Wild-Duck Ducky Weeks (another hen is named Ducky, she first liked confusing people into thinking we had ducks, now is amused at folks not being able to get names straight.)

 

[BravewingTheHen]

Looks like it might be molting... Chickens use two different methods of molting. One method is when a chicken loses all the feathers in a single day (don't worry, they don't look completely naked, just have less feathers) and your coop may look like a chicken exploded with a ll the feathers everywhere. The other method is two drop a few every day, which takes much longer. One of my hens is molting right now, and she is using the drop-a-few-a-day method, and the front of her neck looks sort of bare, a lot like the picture you show. Anyway, I hope this helps, and hopefully it is just molting and nothing bad!