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  1. N

    My hen has been plucking her feathers out like crazy! And it's gotten bad... please help.

    I live in Wisconsin. This past June when the weather got warm, this girl started loosing the feathers above her tail and around her neck. I attributed it to my rooster (no longer in the picture), so I got her a chicken saddle so she might heal. The chicken saddle made her lose the feathers...
  2. SniperGoose

    How to make chickens stop eating their own eggs?

    I have 9 hens; 6 Speckled Sussex, and 3 Black SexLink that are all around 2 years old. They've been eating their eggs a lot lately, so I'm constantly having to clean out their nest boxes, and of course I haven't been getting that many eggs due to this. I love my girls to death, but I really wish...
  3. Nutmeg15

    Chicken Eating Feathers — Plucking Chickens Bare

    Pumpkin, my Buff Orpington, has started picking out and eating the feathers of my two Dark Brahmas. I only noticed this behavior actively about a week ago—she had always shown some interest in pecking at their foot feathers, but I had never seen her actually pulling out feathers and eating them...
  4. Clucklandia

    HELP! MY HENS ARE CANNIBALS!!? (Sort of...)

    :frowHello! I'm sure people here have dealt with this before. I was getting eggs from the coop and one fell... Of course EVERY single hen rushed over and ate it.:th :barnie Trust me, I tried to stop them. So I have some Egg Eaters.. Now, every time a hen lays an egg, someone gets to it. I...
  5. O

    serious cannibalism

    Dear All, I've 6 chickens in a run about 105 square feet. Chickens spend almost all of their time in the run. Two or three times a week I let them out to the larger backyard for a few hours. 2 of my chickens are very good layers and laying consistently even in the midst of winter. However, they...
  6. EggMan207

    Had one of my chicks brutally attacked ...

    Yesterday, I had one of my chicks (a black australorp) attacked by the older chickens. She's 9 weeks old. We just put the chicks in this week. They pecked the back of her head and neck quite badly. The skin is pushed up on the top of her head so it sort of covers one of her eyes and it looks...
  7. Lazy Farmer

    WHAT MAKES A HEN GO CANNIBAL POLL?

    WHAT MAKES A HEN GO TOTAL CANNIBAL? (Egg Layer Adults on each other) Ignore the food dish and prefer blood over feed. This is an OPINION Poll. If you Google or copy or paste your answer you are cheating. This is based upon personal experience or educated guesses. Don't cheat, just publish your...
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