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    Pecking help please....

    Thankyou, thinking I'll need a second coop..... Will the hens split themselves into 2 " happy" groups or do I need to choose and seperate them? Anything else that would help? To promote feather regrowth ? Presume they'll be OK all out together during the day. Will check the feed. Thanks for all...
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    Pecking help please....

    Thinking that might be the case.....
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    Pecking help please....

    Thinking I might be underestimating the coop size they need.....
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    Pecking help please....

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    Pecking help please....

    Their new coop is plastic and I put loads of mire powder on when I moved them in. Clean their coop weekly and sprinkle with more powder in the nesting boxes. Never seen any mites or lice, and have handled them frequently ( to apply sprays/potions!) over the last few weeks. Also, not all of them...
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    Pecking help please....

    Their coop is for 8-10 hens with 2 roosting bars and 4 nesting boxes. I feed them layer pellets and cast grain every afternoon onto the ground in a couple of areas for scratching. They free range from 7am til dusk (9pm ish), their free range area is grass, with some bare soil areas they use for...
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    Pecking help please....

    Hi there! Looking for help please... I had a small group of 5 hens and several of them had bald areas of feathers that had been pulled out, mainly bottoms, small areas on wings and base of the tail. I originally thought they had mites as I had never seen them peck each other and so tried for a...
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