Tenacious bald patch!

[barba]

My 15 month old Australorp still has a bare patch on her back. We haven't had a rooster with the hens in a little over five months. When we had a rooster, the hens were starting to look pretty beaten up; we re-homed the rooster and my 15 month old cream legbar's feathers grew back pretty quickly, but the Australorp may even be looking worse than she did before - and in the same exact spot!




Is she just molting, am I being impatient, or is there an underlying health problem?

 

[junebuggena]

She may not grow those feathers back until she molts. That's just how it goes. Rooster damage frequently does not resolve until molting season.