Hi again.
So I've supplied you with a few more pics if it helps. Hope I'm not bothering.
Pic #1- Shows inside the Omlet run and you can see the coop at the back of it.
What I've noticed is that the chickens, except for a few times a day mostly stay together within a sq.meter area. They love each other but find each other a little tastey also.
I did see Twitch peck real short today on another's bald spot.
What I've noticed though is her pecking is now more curious pecking instead of like, 'I wanna eat that', kind of pecking.
She's always been a very curious hen and the most alert. I've heard Sussex are known for that. She also loves to pick and dig on our clothes. She's interested in textiles.
That perch inside the Omlet run there I've never seen them use.
Pic #2-shows from above so you can see the back of the coop. That green section there is the Eglu Omlet coop. At the back of the coop is the door and on the Lft. side of the coop (towards the wall), is another door to get the eggs.
If I were to put the Coop/run towards the wall we probably wouldn't be able to use that nest door anymore.
Pic# 3- Also from above shows you the reason why we can't expand.
We have a pool to the left and that plastic tunnel in the front of run is our vegetable beds.
Sorry, bamboo cover to lft blocks shot a little.
That other wood construction by the veggie beds is the second coop we built for them. They can go underneath it to rest and for shade.
We built it the same dimensions as their omlet coop so it wouldn't be too foreign to them.
As you see we also built a mini salad bar after your suggestion.
We can also make a larger one later.
Pic 4- Shows again the back of the coop so you can see how much space we have in the back. We clean the coop from the back coop door and from the back you pull out the poop tray.
The plant there is a black currant, so the chickens have a berry bush and a grape vine.
Where the chicken is standing in pic is also the entrance into the run.
Pic 5- Is our Königsberger. It's looks worse because I'm pulling the feathers back.
Her bare spot actually looks like it has improved since last week. It's starting to cover over.
She also has pen feathers showing in that spot.
Pic 6-This next one is Scratch our other Sussex. She is also showing a bald spot but she has not been pecked on.
At least no one has ever seen it.
But she was the one that had the 'bloody ankles', at the beginning of this whole mess.
Weird because she is the 1st in the pecking order.
I think she is first because even though she got bloody from twitch back in Feb. I saw her standing her ground and pecking on Twitch's head to bug off.
As you notice there are many pen feathers around the bald spot and the skin there is untouched and in good shape. So, a mini moult?
Pic 6- This is the maran that got picked. It also looks worse because I'm pushing the feathers back. Usually her other feathers are covering the naked spot up.
We saw on her that there had been a little red or scaring on two small places.
I also noticed pen feathers coming in on the bald spot.
She's obviously the worst case but I haven't seen Twitch peck on her in the last week or more.
So that's why we've been hesitant to put the peepers on right away because it's all a little confusing.
We've seen pen feathers coming in for weeks now on the two first birds.
So we don't know if Twitch caused the initial damage or just pecked out of curiousity at these partially bald spots where feathers are coming in.
I did see Twitch pulling at the feathers of the Maran's neck some weeks ago.
But like said, I haven't seen her do that anymore for that last couple of weeks.
I guess it sounds like I'm try to defend the bully hen.
We will indeed put the peepers back on as soon as we see things worsen or if in case you'd think from the looks of the pic, 'it's time'.
It's better than the soup.
