Chickens have naked butts!

[Sweetest]

Ok, so it seems that all 11 of my chickens have plucked out the feathers on their butt/lower belly area. One has even pulled out the feathers on her chest. So when they're free ranging, I see jaunty hen tails...and naked hen butts.
No mites. But what gives?!

 

[rc4u]

maybe there taking after someone??? you don't have any streekers or live in a communal area?? really just kidding..

 

[Sweetest]

Haha! Sadly, life would be made a lot more exciting by something like that! Hmm, they CAN see in our bathroom window from their run...why they haven't gone blind by now...

 

[tadaen sylverma]

2 of my standards ( jersey giants??? I think ) have similar. Zero feathers on the back end of their breasts, well below the tail visible only from directly behind them. I had worried it might be something but they seem fine, and both of them are the same way. The bantams are perfectly fine but I don't know what to do with these 2 big ones I have. They are laying normally it seems. Get at least 1 good sized egg every day, sometimes 2 (total not from each, the eggs are plainly different each time so maybe each one is giving 1 every other day or something).

I just wonder if I need to worry about this.

 

[sphillips]

I started seeing the same thing with my chickens, started with one, but now all but my white Leghorns are bald butts. I thought they may be starting a moult, as they are about a year old now. Have more questions, but will run my own post on that. Hope you get some answers!

 

[WindStep]

?

 

[Sweetest]

Mine are about a year old now too...could just be a moult.

 

[sunspot]

Same here - but I have seen them pecking from each other. Too many in my pen (20)?

They lay OK