Chicken peepers

[Kafru77]

I have a problem with my chickens plucking each other's feathers. I used blue coat and no peck and neither seems to be working. I bought some chicken peepers and carefully used the pliers to place them on my hen. I was working on a second hen and I looked back at the first one and noticed her nostril was bleeding. I dont want to hurt them, these seem inhumane. The little prong goes inside the nostril correct?

 

[chickengeorgeto]

I have a problem with my chickens plucking each other's feathers. I used blue coat and no peck and neither seems to be working. I bought some chicken peepers and carefully used the pliers to place them on my hen. I was working on a second hen and I looked back at the first one and noticed her nostril was bleeding. I dont want to hurt them, these seem inhumane. The little prong goes inside the nostril correct?

I haven't used these thinga since I left the commercial chicken bizz over 50 years ago but the peepers or blinders that in use today have a short barbed spear that goes from nostril to nostril to hold the peeper or blinder in place on the bridge of a chicken's nose.

 

[aart]

Welcome to BYC!

Not sure if prong goes inside the nostril,
@chickengeorgeto wasn't perfectly clear on that,
but I would assume it does go inside nostril.
@azygous would know, she's used them with some success.

Have you tried other solutions to the pecking problem,
like change in feed and/or more space?

 

[azygous]

The prongs go inside the nares. (Beak holes) That's how they stay on. Most hens tolerate them well, although I just needed to remove peepers from a hen who was having trouble breathing because her beak hole are smaller and the prongs weren't allowing enough air in.

You need to spread the peepers to get them on and a special pliers called snap ring pliers will assist in this as they open by squeezing instead of closing. It helps to wrap the candidate in a big towel and cover her eyes during the procedure.

 

[aart]

nares. (Beak holes)

Nares = Nostrils.