Please help identify this skin problem. Pics!

[Lobzi]

Im guess its a molt. My roo does this once a year, and is currently looking a lot like that in the areas where feathers are missing and just regrowing back in.

That pink patch is really a lot deeper red in color. He has no tail feathers currently and little tail and butt area are red. Im guessing it is from the sun on pretty sensitive skin.

 

[chickensioux]

We will treat this as sunburn. There are way more hens than roos. Thanks for all the suggestions, I think we will try Desitin

 

[Wynette]

It doesn't look like sunburn to me - it almost looks like some sort of allergic reaction. If she were mine, I'd separate her & start her on an extremely basic food regimen (different from waht she is currently eating) just to see if it goes away.

ETA: This does not look like molt to me, either, but I'm no expert.

 

[beth59]

That looks very much like one of my RIR's back where the roo has made her lose her feathers. Lost the roo to a coyote about 3 weeks ago and the skin is losing it's redness and some feathers are starting to return. My girls have shade, so I think it's just irritation, rather than sunburn. None of my other hens' backs were that red, even though they also had feather loss because of "Bob". I had just started to work on making hen aprons when we lost Bob.

Beth

 

[australorpchick]

Looks like my australorp's rear last year. We used blu-kote, neosporin, treated for bugs, but could never figure out what it was and she's the only one who had it. She's the #2 hen, the Hench-hen, so no one picks on her. We only had 1 roo for several hens last year, so I don't think it was the roo. I thought I was going to have to make her special sweatpants for the Winter, but she molted and grew her feathers back. Haven't had any nakedbutts this year.

 

[Lobzi]

I treated my boy multiple times with Frontline for puppies and kittens just to make sure it wasnt something more than sunburn from molting.