Recent content by PeterB94

Ok I will give this a try. Thank you. Have you ever had success with anti peck spray?

Hi @3KillerBs . Thanks for the reply, I can't catch some of them so I doubt I'll be able to do this

Hi all, I'm in desperate help for some answers to this thread as lately the problem has escalated. I have since built an extension however their coop is already quite large - whilst not free range they all have plenty of room. I have sprayed anti peck but to no avail. Even when they have a...

Hi all, I'm in need to revisit this thread as there seems to be a lot of feather plucking going on again. The main time this occurs is when the hens are trying to dust bath. They all do it to each other and eat the feathers. I have just bought some growers pellets to mix with the layers as...

I believe you are both spot on ! I do have a few girls molting and have seen most of the chickens eating feathers just lately. Thanks so much for you help!

Hi, Just wondering if anyone can tell me what the white things are in my chickens stool please? They sort of look like dandruff flakes. They don't move and don't look worm like. (The long things are pieces of straw) Thank you

Hi all. I have had a bird in quarantine due to an small wound she had. Whilst she has been isolated I believe she may have got into the habit of pecking/eating her eggs. It is shortly coming up to the time in the UK where we have the shortest daylight. When the hens stop laying for a brief...

Hi, No not yet, I currently haven't got sufficient space to quarantine them out of sight although I am building something. If I put them in the isolation bit I had for an injured chicken they'd be inside all day.

Hi. I'm still having pretty severe problems with feather plucking. A lot of it seems to be happening at dust bathing time when the chickens don't want to move. It seems to be 2 chickens mainly that are doing it, one being a known bully... Shes even scratching their backs. A lot of the chickens...

I just wanted to post a comment to thank everyone who helped me with their input from the day I posted Elsa's injury on here. It really filled me with confidence to treat my first hen injury and was very reassuring at a time when I didn't expect her to survive. This site and it's users are...

Thank you so much for such a detailed response, it really is so valuable to me to get opinions from people like yourselves. I'm going to print and frame that expression 'chickens aren't nice' haha. I love it and it's 100% worth remembering when we all try to anthropomorphize them. The only...

I reintroduced Bluey (the bully) a few days to the flock after a few days of giving Elsa a chance to settle in. All in all it's going pretty well however I have noticed that the nasty behavior is still very much evident although Elsa has gotten good at dispersing when Bluey goes to engage. The...

Ok thank you, I'll have a look to see if I can get the equivalent in the UK. I offer oyster shell and insoluble grit seperately at the minute.

It's a pellet layers feed. I dont know the exact protein %. What feed do you use if you don't mind ? Also, why is it do you think that the chickens would just let it happen ?

Yeh iv read that a few times. It's a well known brand of layers pellet although they do get protein sources from bugs and various sources. They have a good size run and I give them various enrichment so I can't see those being the stress indicators