My girls spent the entire winter plucking each other bare. I tried everything - added protein, pecking blocks, adding piles of leaves for foraging - nothing stopped them for more than a few days.
My last resort was to fit them all with peepers. It was grueling and one bird ripped her nostril...
We have six GC. All are very friendly, especially since they've started laying. Gorgeous birds. Can be a bit nasty to other birds as well as humans. But not so much that I wouldn't have them.
This is Daisy, one of my Easter Eggers. She was attacked by someone, but I've never determined who or why. Once I cleaned her up, I put her in the mini coop inside the run where she could see and be seen by the rest of the flock.
After a week I tried to reintroduce her and she was chased by...
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We have a flock of 16, all hens. Six Golden Comets, six Easter Eggers, four Speckled Sussex. All are named, as we have...