Any help, my hens are eating the siding off my house!!

[Ann in Wyoming]

I've been doing an enormous amount of reading this weekend about tons of other things and remember reading that a medication for cold like symptoms was also good to use if you have a chicken pecking any others bald spot or such because they didn't like the taste of the meds- I know this sounds like no help, but this is like the third time i've come across your post and it all finally registered. If you put something yucky tasting on the spot they peck then maybe they will stop? If I remember right the product I was reading about was Vet Rx, I wouldn't recommend this specific product because it would be kinda pricey but its an equivalent to vicks vapor rub for chickens. Maybe do some research on stuff chickens don't like or what to apply to chickens to keep other from pecking them? Ok this all sounds crazy but if its the only idea you get... its better than cooking them!!

Pet Silver wound Spray worked on our girls