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I have 15 Buff Orpingtons and 4 Reds in a large pen. They are fed Lone Star laying Pellets as well as a grain "chicken Scratch". All of them are very poor looking. They get plenty of feed, and fresh water, but they have eaten most of the grass from their pen. I have given them Wazine in the...

I've been told that the reason the chickens do that is because of lack of roughage. You can throw tiny pea gravel in the pen, or buy Poultry Grit or ground oyster shell. The lack of grit or roughage is also one of the reasons they will peck at each others feathers.