Flowerchickie
In the Brooder
So my lovely top hen my buff Orpington just recently developed the habit of yanking at foot feathering. She will yank at my Sultans feet pulling out the feathers and make her bleed. She doesn’t eat them either. They have a 176sq ft run for 4 chickens with 2 large dust baths and a playground I built for them. They also have a small chicken yard so 500sq ft all together. The girls are over 1 year old and have been together since chicks. She isn’t a bully chasing her around all the time. If my Sultan is sitting/standing and her feet are exposed and my buff is nearby she will start yanking on them. I tried blue kote and that doesn’t work and no pick from rooster booster is just messy. After a particularly bad episode I threw her in the pen that I was using for some new chickens. I really don’t want to use pinless peepers on her. Would I be able to keep her in the pen for a while to hopefully get her to stop this bad habit? None of my other chickens have this issue or anything like that. This has been going on a couple weeks only.