Help need opinions on debeaking

I have never had any of my chickens debeaked. I think the only time chickens peck each other that badly is when they are stressed and crammed into battery cages practically on top of each other. I personally would never choose to have that done to my babies. Congrats on your new chicks!!

Please do not debeak them. The coop is plenty roomy for them, the run is a great size, just give them some roosts or even a cement block or something they can fly up to in the run, if they need to run away from each other and they'll be fine.

I would not debeak then either i think it is a cruel method (just my thoughts) 

Typically chickens are only de-beaked if kept in very small cages or severely overcrowded. And even then it is a cruel practice. NO backyard chicken flock should ever be de-beaked, there just isn't reason to. 

IF you ever have problems with chickens picking on each other, just give them more space (ie, free-ranging) and hiding spots and they will be fine. 

Hope this helps!

I agree with the previous posts.  It's not necessary.  I have two productions reds that I bought already laying and they were debeaked.  My three BR's are not debeaked.  The reds have more issues grooming, one had lice that were tricky to get rid of and I think not having the longer beak made it difficult for her to naturally groom herself.

I would not debeak them if I were you. I never had any of my chickens debeaked. It is just not natural. Good luck with your new chicks!!!

Debeaking is cruel, please don't. i have hens i raised from babys and they really dont peck each other. we rescued some hens who where debeaked and the poor things had a really hard time free ranging, they could not eat treat blocks or peck and eat anything harder, they even had hard time with treats, like pumpkins, melons, i felt so sorry for the poor things

De-beaking is a horrible practice.

Its very painful to the chicks and they do it while they are still awake without any anesthesia.

The only real reason why de-beaking even exists it to prevent battery hens from pecking each other to death.

And they wouldn't try to peck each other to death if they weren't squish in to small cages with other chickens, where they have no space and never see daylight.

Please don't ever support de-beaking. Chickens have beaks for a reason and its very hard for them to eat without them.

If you ever have a problem with picking you could always use "no pick sprays" or in some desperate situation pinless peepers.

But most of the time, if they have enough space to get away, they will be fine

Backyard flocks are almost never de-beaked and chickens with beaks are happy chickens

As everyone said, two thumbs down on de-beaking. Sounds like you have enough room for six chickens. I have a similar setup for my 4 hens and I am hopefully adding 2-3 more this spring. They get along fine.