Chickens pulling out other's feather's

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Curious to see if the spray worked.
We recently got rid of our only rooster because he continued to attack me. It let me with 12 hens and I have thoroughly enjoyed them now that I can go in with them and not worry about a roo. In this time, however, the hens have started pecking at each other and two specific ones have had their feathers on the back of their neck pulled out. I'm wondering if it's just a coincedence that it happened after the roo left but then again maybe they are all trying to become the dominate hen.
 
So I'm noticing a lot of little fluffy feathers all over the place from my four 10 week olds. Based on the colors it looks like they are all losing feathers. There are just a few of the bigger adult kind of feathers. Is this a normal feather loss for this age?
 
sn0wwhite said:
So I'm noticing a lot of little fluffy feathers all over the place from my four 10 week olds. Based on the colors it looks like they are all losing feathers. There are just a few of the bigger adult kind of feathers. Is this a normal feather loss for this age?
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They go through mini molts and so when they are growing up it looks like feathers are everywhere!
 

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