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Thanks for the info. Will give these a try. Very curious as to how these stop pecking/plucking and at the same time allow them to carry on with normal feeding.

Any suggestions for how to stop? They all have the issue just some worse than others. Thank you, sourland!

Very good thread although I must admit I haven't read all 109 comments. Two questions, does the use of this food grade DE or 5% Sevin cause any risk in egg consumption? Also, I'm trying to identify if our flock is suffering from mites or lice. They began losing feathers around the base of the...

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We have a flock of six. One by one over the past few months our hens have started losing feathers. At first I suspected it to be them sorting out their pecking order even though we haven't noticed any fighting or aggressive behavior. I now suspect their may be something more, possibly a mite...

Thanks for the information!

We have six hens in our city flock. Four black australorps, 1 EE/Barred mix, and a red mix. We started getting eggs about two weeks ago. This morning I retrieved these three. Is the tiny egg a symptom of a problem or just a new layer? Thanks in advance.

It's about 13 weeks old.

This would be our fourth cockerel out of four from June purchase. Thoughts?

Here's a better pic of the RIR, or whatever he or she is.

Last question, can u tell me if the picture here is a barred rock hen or rooster? This is the third of the three 'barred rock' which we bought. It's comb looks significantly different than the other two.

Any idea on the second picture, Barred #2? Cockerel? Thank yall again for your time. We've had black Australorps and we gave them to a farm friend since they were reaching some age. The older girls were also stalking out the young ones.

There is some irredecent green in the center barred. Is that a trait of a roo? His cheeks are also puffed out. RIR would make more sense bc it looks nothing like other pics of Ameraucanas that I've seen.

This is the other that we suspect. Let's call him barred #2.

Let's try this. The one in the middle is my suspected rooster. The one on right was labeled an Ameraucana by the seller. Thoughts?

We bought have three barred rock and another we were told was an Ameraucana. They are now about 12 weeks old. We know we have at least one rooster and actually expect two. Can anyone assist in confirming? Thank you in advance.

For the past 3-1/2 years we've had great layers in four black Australorps. Their egg production has dwindled over the past four months. We recently purchased three barred rock and an Ameraucana. After four weeks of hens stalking the young ones we decided to give away our Australorps. Now we have...