pecking each other and seeming to like it

We have a Barred Plymouth Rock 4-5 months old, who came as a ready-to-lay to us in June. On the trip from the hatchery, one her 3 casemates badly de-feathered her. No blood, but really raw. We got gave “Henible Lecture” to a friend with roosters and separated “Pepper’ from the other 6 hens we...

I am a new chicken mama and have three chicks I have raised from "chickhood" and one a chicken that my boyfriend already had and then we recently adopted and older hen from a neighbour who is changing from egg layers to meat chickens. Two of the ones I am raising are Chanteclers, the other is...