This is our setup and we have and just added some things to make them happy. Toys that dispense treats and I just treated all their butts with pine tar. The good news is I seem to be keeping their butts infection free for now and covering them up with blue coat. I hope the pine tar really stops...
Thanks no parasites it definitely then pecking eachother but now it feels intentional nd eating of feathers it’s brutal and at this point we literally are doing everything but separating six damn chickens.
We keep hosing them down with blue coat, one of our girls butt is really wounded we might have to somehow separate her but that’s going to be hard to do. It’s cold and rainy here so letting them out all day is tough too. We just purchased some chicken toys that dispense treats that will...
We have six hens and we noticed that at least 3 butts are being plucked…we have tried giving them toys and things to peck at in the run and we let them out when it’s good weather, our coop can handle 14 hens so there is more than enough space, places to roost, we are concerned that one ore more...