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    Why are my females scalping each other?

    You need to separate them a bit they will end up drawing blood, I needed to take the male out and then after separating females that were badly pecked and treating them I reintroduced them to the flock after the male was not in their common place and it stopped.
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    Why are my females scalping each other?

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    Raising chickens

    I have had the girls since September 2019 and they have done well overall, I lost a very nice hen last February to respiratory illness, the one vet that takes chickens was off for five days and she didn't make it. I have to thank this site for all the information I get from all the people that...
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    New lifestyle for my girls

    I took many of these suggestions and added to the pen, I also have a raised 6x8 coop and put a lot of soil under it and basically it seems like a sand box to them, so they are doing better. They get a spiked head of cabbage to play with often and a 1/4 melon or cantalope daily.
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    Bullied hen

    Thank you
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    Bullied hen

    i have one hen that spends most of her time sitting in the nesting box area because most of the other hens pick on her. I have nine chickens ( I lost one in winter with a respiratory ailment, no vet was available), and they have a fairly large coop(6’x8’) and a penned in area. I free ranged them...
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    New lifestyle for my girls

    I have had my chickens since August 18, and since that time they have been free ranged over four acres of land but due to a recent predator problem I had to fence them in and I know they aren’t happy. There are only nine and they have about a eight by twenty five foot area but I can tell they...
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