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    Pecking Problems

    I've been having pecking problems lately and is wandering if anyone has any advise on how to make it stop. I have five hens that have been together for a year now. No problems until it started snowing and they started pecking each other. Even to the point that the victim of the pecking would...
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    dried yolk looking stuff around vent UPDATE W/ PICTURE

    It looks like a skin problem. Did you try a triple antibiotic, like neosporin, on it? That would be my first thought.
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    Hens ganging up on one hen and pecking her!

    Giving them more range time in the yard will certainly help. Changing their diet will also help discourage this.
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    How many nests?

    I forgot to say that you want your nest about 2 feet off the ground.
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    How many nests?

    Do 1 nest per 4 chickens and you will be fine. You will find that they will share the nests with no problems. Just make sure that the nest stay clean and dry and clean them out if an egg breaks in them. Using nests gives you cleaner eggs and helpsto prevent them from breaking.
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    weird shaped thin egg with "soft" yolk

    I don't know if this will even help but I like to give my chicks spinach. This seems to help my yolks.
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    red necked Black Giant

    I've got two Barred Rocks and two Buff Orpingtons and one of my rock hens did this. The skin was exposed on her neck and breast. I learned that the two orpingtons were pecking her feathers off and at times pecking at her skin. I think that my hens were getting bored becuase they weren't...
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