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    Featherless neck patch?

    I have a flock of four hens, hatched this spring. Quite some time ago we noticed a 'bald patch' on our partridge rock's neck. She's the bottom of the pecking order and I assumed she was being bullied by the other hens and sprayed the area with blue-kote. Now the area seems to be getting worse...
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    Unloved Chicken

    I have four chickens-- a Rhode Island Red, Gold-laced Wyandotte, Barred Rock, and a Plymouth Rock. The Plymouth has always been smaller than the others and lowest on the totem pole, but lately all three of the other girls have been pecking at her. She's usually alone when they're foraging in...
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