ForFlocksSake
Songster
This morning I was watching my RIR take a dust bath and my barred rock walked up to her and started pecking her backside. She pulled off a feather and ate it then went back for more. I intervened and grabbed the RIR to take a closer look. She’s missing feathers in one area (see photo). I read feather eating could be protein deficiency but they’re on 20% crumbles and I throw black soldier fly larva and scrambled egg scraps at them multiple times per week. The strangest part is my RIR continued to lay in her dust bath and wasn’t really protesting at all other then one little yelp sound. Both have laid an egg every day this week and last and seem healthy otherwise. The others don’t have any missing feathers. How do I stop this?
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