Sorry you got sick! I love how you are excited and eager to do so many things! Life is never boring as there are so many ways to use our time.
God bless you in your career in the USCG.
Speaking of Pearl Harbor day, that is the same day as my grandmother's birthday. She was born in 1915 and...
Apart from using pinless peepers and having a larger space, I would figure out who is doing the feather picking and separate her from the flock.
Good luck with this! Keep us posted!
I don't know if I am overly cautious but I have always waited until my newbies are about 12 weeks before leaving them in the coop overnight. I free range them together or even allow some pen time together at about 10 weeks. When I finally do have them in the coop overnight I always put them...
I had someone drop off a rooster once in the middle of a cold January night.We woke up and my husband told me the rooster was crowing. I said, "but we don't have a rooster." I went out to investigate and found a rooster standing in the pitch black in a snowbank. I grabbed him and brought him...
Is it all the hens plucking out the feathers or just one? I have used pinless peepers before on the guilty hen or hens and they work. Another idea is if it is just one instigator, to isolate that one for a bit instead of the rooster. This may rearrange the pecking order and stop the behavior.