Ok, so we have about three or four hens who have some pretty severe bald patches on their backs - you know, from the over-amorous attentions of the boys. :rolls eyes: Most of the girls have done their molting thing and are all grown back and ready for the winter (here in NJ, it's already frosting over at night now) but these few haven't as of yet.

I'm not so worried about them during the night- we put an infrared lamp on a thermostat in the coop to help everyone stay warm once the temps are hovering in the really cold - but i'm not sure if there's anything we can do to help protect them during the day when they roam. We have to grease the comb (vaseline) of one of our roosters at night during the winter to protect him from frostbite - but I'm not so sure that would be a reasonable thing to do for the much bigger exposed areas on the girls.

So, any thoughts, folks? ^^;