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Haven't ever seen them eat feathers

My biggest problem.with this tractor that I'm going to have to rebuild are the nesting boxes...no matter what I put in them the girls scratch every bit of it out...so when the egg is laid it his the board and cracks leaving me with useless eggs and I think leading to the two hens eating them...

I was thinking maybe they weren't getting enough roaming space as well maybe... Thought about opening the tractor during the day letting them lose and closing them up at night and see if it improves anything.. I feed them egg laying pellets and they always have grass and almost everyday they get...

Maybe one of my "girls" is a rooster and I don't know it? They all look like hens and have never heard a crow...or maybe I've got a bully hen..but she doesn't seem to have any injuries on her poor bald head

No roosters all girls ..I do have a silkie roo that runs about in the yard freely but he's never with them in their tractor

Has anyone ever had an Easter eggers just go bald on their head? Last year she was beautiful this spring... She looks like a buzzard?? I've checked for mites...none... What could be causing this ?? No injuries to her head from pecking either.. Is she just gonna be an ugly girl? [/IMG]

I have two Easter eggers hens out of my five ladies eating eggs as soon as the suckers come out!! So frustrating! I'm at my wit's end with this! I've tried the golf ball as the fake egg for them to Peck and get bored with I also try to get the egs out ASAP but seems as soon has they pop them out...

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I was watering my father's chickens when I noticed one of his hens comb flipped over it seemed to be halfway torn its still bright read no part of it looks dead its scabbed very well but I put neosporin on it . she doesn't act sick or like anything is even wrong. Is this okay or should I just...

All silkie hens I threw the two roosters out after finding them hogging the food

I recently threw two roosters out of my april hatchlings out of my coop to free range ..they were keeping my girls from eating food!! They would literally lie dwn beside te feeder and guard it! Now im trying to put a good amount of weight back on them before the cold weather sets in.. u can...

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I just discovered my silkies have mites or at least I found them on one chicken o assume my flock has them? What should I do???

Now I only have five hens had six but she's the one in the picture :-(

No roosters all hens that I raised from babies .. I'm thinking it was a racoon that tached through the window of my chicken tractor they sleep very close to it on the roost I kept it open thinking they'd get too hot at night ..now they get closed up !