Brahmas - are their molting patterns different?

[Newfoundland Chick]

My recently acquired Dark Brahma hen is bald underneath her wings & on her butt. According to the books, chickens tend to molt from the neck down in different stages. Are Brahmas different...? Or is she plucking all of her feathers out...? Poor little Mable...

 

[charlielynnsingletary]

My brahma Ethel is the same way expect her belly and inner legs are naked. I posted about it a few days ago. Some think she could be molting others think she is broody. I think its both. But whatever it is for the first time since I got her she has given me a egg everyday.

 

[Newfoundland Chick]

Yes, Mable's belly & inner thighs are bald too...she looks terrible! She had been living with an aggressive hen...an Easter egger who plucked her feathers out - I'm wondering if she's mimicking the behavior on herself. Or if it's a stress-induced thing - because she changed homes. Or if it's her first molt (she's 13 1/2 months old). But my Australorp began molting at the end of the winter & she followed the textbook pattern from the neck down...so, I don't know. I'm relatively new at this...got my first chickens a little over a year ago. And I worry about my 5 little hens incessantly!