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Thanks aoxa. Neither of our birds are wounded so I was thinking along the lines of the red peeper perhaps appearing to look like blood. I know chickens are normally quite good at identifying what's what but it was just a thought. When Sophie went for Beans yesterday she always seemed to go for...

These birds just continue to confound! After Sophie's display of aggression yesterday and our failure to get the peeper to stay on her, we removed Bean's peeper today because it obviously gave Sophie an unfair advantage and was causing friction between them. Before I go on, bear in mind...

When I tried to put them on our Light Sussex I think the record length of time it stayed on was roughly 1 second. I understand some people have had problems getting their birds to stay still but for us that hasn't been a problem at all. Our problem is it just seems a bad fit. When I clip it...

Well I didn't see that coming! We attached the pinless peeper onto Beans the bully and they went on like a dream. Didn't even need to hold her. She just stood there while I edged them closer to her and hey presto, the job was done. We left her for a few minutes and the poor thing looked so...

Ordered the pinless peepers about a week ago. Will report back soon hopefully!

Quote: Initially, eggs but now pets and, er, entertainment! :o) Glad I cleared that one up for you!

This is great stuff, I love you all.

I could refer you to to this thread which outlines our pecking problem and how one of our Hens has for the past few weeks, completely turned on the other hen. We're now at the point where it would be remiss of us not to start considering their future. To save you the trouble of reading through...

Last battery hen given a new home Liberty rehomed by charity before ban abolishing battery cage system comes into effect on 1 January www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/dec/29/last-battery-hen-home-liberty Press Association guardian.co.uk, Thursday 29 December 2011 17.52 GMT Jane Howorth...

Quote: I could give you a picture but they're both laying, (although Sophie has slowed down recently). They're definitely girls! Quote: We will consider the pinless peepers although if I can't get to the root problem of what's causing this behaviour, in all honesty it's probably for the...

Hmm, I'm facing up to that, my wife hasn't though. I don't think we're cut out for this tbh, the wife in particular dotes on them! *eek*

Girls have been split for a few days and we've upped their protein and calcium intake, although it's obviously too early for this to really take effect. Whenever we isolate Sophie she gets her spirit and vitality back but we sometimes put them back together under supervision but Beans always...

I've been reading plenty about pecking on these fora and there's a fair bit about isolating the aggressor and reintroducing them later. However, I don't see how that can work in the case of two birds as opposed to a flock, especially when their personalities are so monumentally different, (Beans...

Sophie had a resigned look on her face all that time ago. It's like she knew what was coming!

What the title said! Registered here due to an unfortunate pecking problem. Created a thread a few days ago and have already been the grateful recipient of advice from a couple of your members. We got Chickens simply to get us out in the back garden a bit more and for the eggs but we totally...

Thanks a lot for the reply, will definitely look into that. Sophie's tucked up in a box in the bathroom atm, but she really isn't right. Have never seen her this quiet before. Neither of the girls really like me anyway, (I'm over it), but they do interact with my wife a lot and they both...

Bit of a worst case scenario. Beans, our RIR is the one picking on poor Sophie! Sophie's tail feathers have healed fantastically. She is even now starting to sprout a fine black plumage around her tail, although her butt is still just a very small stump from where she lost her bum feathers...

I'm thinking of isolating her for a few days to ensure that she doesn't knock it and the bleeding restarts... any thoughts? edit: oh wow, fast response. The above was not in reply to your good self! *goes away to read* edit2: massive thank you jeslewmazer, that is extremely reassuring. I will...

edit - thread title changed since we found out what is going on! We are concerned and relatively inexperienced owners of two much-loved hens, a Light Sussex and a RIR, who've been with us since 8 weeks. Yesterday evening we couldn't fail to notice that our Light Sussex had suffered some...