Recent content by Maton1

Hi again. So I've supplied you with a few more pics if it helps. Hope I'm not bothering. Pic #1- Shows inside the Omlet run and you can see the coop at the back of it. What I've noticed is that the chickens, except for a few times a day mostly stay together within a sq.meter area. They love...

Thanks, yes we tried the pinless peepers for some weeks and they really worked for us. The only slight problem was that it started to turn her beak a little black and blue. I guess the pins hit a vessel or something. Since we've taken the peepers off of her to let her beak heal we started...

No, we carefully monitored here daily and never saw any blood. It's possible maybe something happened during the night in her coop but I would've noticed first thing in the morning. It's more like bruising, dark lines inside the beak. But yea, otherwise she seems fine, eats great, always...

Tried to clean dark area around the beak with q-tip. It's not dirt. Darkening coming from within beak. She's never bled from the outside anywhere. So, maybe some kind of hemorrhaging in the beak and nostril cavity?? And only after one week of having peepers? Kinda weird. It looks like we're...

Ok. We'll take them off soon but I'm pretty sure it's not dried blood. I've watched her daily and quite frequently and so far there's never been any blood either from the front of her beak or coming from the notriles. I'm checking her all throughout the day. I noticed it starting to...

Correction. Our hen has only had the peepers in 1 1/2 weeks so a few more days to go. Here is a pic of her. We were concerned about that dark area in between the peepers at the top of the beak. It could be dirt (hopefully) but my wife was concerned that it's hopefully not dying tissue...

Hi everyone. Just a little update. The peepers have been working great. Our hen has not pecked since on anyone's feet and all her victims had time the heal up fine. BUT, I noticed today that the red skin around the inserted Peepers appears to be changing color slightly, from red to a light...

Thank you. Yes, I'm very disappointed and especially concerned about the hen with the picking problem. She is everyone's favorite, great egg layer and she made us all laugh at her funny personality during a pretty difficult time. Problem is she has to be isolated. She's gotten better but...

Well folks, I really appreciated all the tips I got here and I considered and tried. But sadly most of what we've tried hasn't worked for the hen that's been pecking at feet. Poor thing has been in a box for a few weeks (of course I let her out but she's isolated). She still goes after feet...

We put the peepers in today. Kinda sad. It's been about an hour or so and the chicken is still not really adjusting to them. She acts confused, and sometimes moving backwards and not really able yet to eat normally. How long should I wait? Since it was my first time doing this I was a...

Thanks. We might try them tomorrow as it's been 4-5 days of isolation now and we will see how she does around the others now. I'm a litte unsure though about these peeper. Wow, they are very stiff and seem as if they could puncture the tissue around the nose. I've heard though that it's good...

Ok. I'll look up some of those higher protein feeds. I give them oyster shells already but I backed off a little a few months ago after I found an egg that had a lot of calcium deposit on it. I thought maybe I was giving them too much. I know it prob doesn't help you help me too much but I...

Thank you so much for both replies! That gave me a little hope. I'll keep her one more night separated then that will be the 4th night. Then I'll let her loose and see how it goes. I checked the legemehl feed and it contains 16.5% raw protein. I've been supplementing some extra protein...

So, we found out a week ago that our most loved Hen in the family started going after the other chickens feet to the point of drawing blood. I wouldn't call it 'pecking' per say even though it is,,,,butt almost like biting. She really pecks hard and pulls as if with the intent to draw blood...

I make seed balls with coconut oil for wild birds. I also made a large seed flock block for my hens using coconut oil because I have a chicken that has been bullying all the other hens. I made it for a bordom buster. The bully Hen is now constantly on the flock block. I just don't know how...