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Most of the chicks look like the first 2 pictures, which is what I think are cockerels. The last 2 pictures are what I think are pullets but of course I may be wrong.

Yes, it is becoming obvious that most of them are cockerels. I culled an aggressor, I saw him plucking out feathers of the others. Yes they were outgrowing the brooder I had them in, I waited to long to move them into a larger area I’m guessing.

Thought I would give an update on how things are going. I have 7 chicks in each pen and 3 of the more serious injured chicks in a pen together, haven’t had anyone bleeding since which is great! I keep blu-kote on their wounds and have been watching them very close, I did end up culling one chick...

2 chicks tails even have chunks of flesh/skin missing and the others have wounds on their wings at the top of their backs and lots of wing feathers missing. I separated them into two groups, I have the two with the tail wounds in individual cages, I put blu-kote on the rest and put them...

I thought what I did was finally working, I didn’t see any feather picking. I left home for a couple of hours and when I came back 10 chicks were wounded and bleeding... I’m at a loss as to what to do, I’m going to separate them into 2 groups but I honestly don’t think it’s going to help.

Yes, probably needs more time to actually help. I’m just extra worried over it since I’ve never had this problem before, one chick since then has had all his tail feathers plucked and was bleeding pretty bad, had to remove him from the others. The bleeding has stopped but his tail is looking...

Right now they are on 18% protein chick food, do you think I should try 20% or 24% protein chick food to see if it helps?

I’m trying to find out the causes for feather picking and eating. I have 3 week old chicks and 2 week old chicks in completely different groups that are doing this same behavior. They all were move to bigger pens because I thought that might be part of it and added clutter to try to keep them...