cannibal chicken

  1. POD

    Feather Eating Troubles

    I’m looking for advice on what I can do for my >6 month old hen Brontë, who has returned to her former habit of plucking and eating the feathers of her five other flock mates. If you can share any stories or advice you have on curing a chicken of feather eating, please leave a comment. I’m...
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    • bully behavior cannibal chicken cannibalism feather eating feather picking help hen 8 months isolated pinless peepers
    • Replies: 18
    • Forum: Managing Your Flock
  2. A Few Fowl Issues

    A Few Fowl Issues

    So truly I want to pick up where I left off with my last article. When I wrote my last article I was riding a heady wave of combined luck and positive progress. Our birds were doing great, with no major incidents. We learned the daily needs, requirements and supplies for chicken and turkey...
    • SarahWhits
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    • cannibal chicken chicken care chicken disease fowl pox heat exhaustion hot weather mixed flocks pink eye
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    • Category: Member Pages
  3. poulet2016

    What to do about my most picked on hen?

    Hello there, My sweetest, most submissive and smallest hen is also the bottom of the pecking order (surprise!). She's 4 and has been with the same flock of 5 her whole life. 2 years ago we added 3 more to the family. Every year she molts first in late summer and gets pecked at to the point of...
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    Chicks and chickens

    I just placed two young roosters who are both roughly 7-8 weeks old in a chicken coop with chickens that are 15 weeks+. They have one rooster. One I placed them in the rooster attacked them and they hid in nesting boxes. It's was night time when I did that. Is there anything I should be...
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    Pinless peepers in the UK - cannibal chicken

    Help does anyone know where I can find a small number of pinless peepers in the UK? I only need 1 or 2 pairs. I ordered some from eBay but they are the pin type and I don’t like the idea of them. I have a very aggressive bird who pecked her last flock mate to death - she has 3 new pullets in...
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