My little Scissor Beak EE is getting picked on so bad! Today, Peaches, my Golden Buff, ripped out half her back feathers! I put Hen Healer in her, but it looks so rough! How do I protect her from getting killed…or can I?
I have to pull her out of the run to eat mash every day because of her beak, she can’t eat like the rest of them and she literally spends all day running between the feeders and water containers between my mash feeds. They’ll be 25 weeks this coming Monday and they really started going after her in the last week or so (after we rehomed the accidental cockerel). They’re on pellet feed, they all get mash at the same time she does, I do one big bowl for the other 12 and a tiny 1/3c portion for just her. She takes forever to eat, so I was sitting with her next to the run (in another enclosed elated so my dogs can’t cause trouble) and they weren’t letting her intergrate back in after eating. I started locking her in the coop while she eats and they are locked outside. When she’s full, she heads for the door (I have a WiFi enabled chicken door, so I watch the cameras inside and open the door for her), I let her out and everyone else rushes in to clean up any food she’s left behind (she’s a really messy eater).
Long and rambling, but I think I covered any basic questions.
I have to pull her out of the run to eat mash every day because of her beak, she can’t eat like the rest of them and she literally spends all day running between the feeders and water containers between my mash feeds. They’ll be 25 weeks this coming Monday and they really started going after her in the last week or so (after we rehomed the accidental cockerel). They’re on pellet feed, they all get mash at the same time she does, I do one big bowl for the other 12 and a tiny 1/3c portion for just her. She takes forever to eat, so I was sitting with her next to the run (in another enclosed elated so my dogs can’t cause trouble) and they weren’t letting her intergrate back in after eating. I started locking her in the coop while she eats and they are locked outside. When she’s full, she heads for the door (I have a WiFi enabled chicken door, so I watch the cameras inside and open the door for her), I let her out and everyone else rushes in to clean up any food she’s left behind (she’s a really messy eater).
Long and rambling, but I think I covered any basic questions.