Chicks eating and plucking feathers

[Ian0823]

I have 3 3months old bantam teens ( 1 cockerel and 2 pullets )
Male is very dominating and pecks other too
He is the one who is plucking and eating neck feathers of both pullets
Pullets are looking like necked neck now
I caught him many times plucking and eating and plucking feathers
And only he has all neck eathers pullet has bald patches on front neck
They eat grower feed and I also feeding them them hard boiled eggs once a week

He is just getting in my head now a days
Any sugguestions ?

 

[PDXJULES]

Generally, folks here say feather eating signals a need for more protein in the feed. By Grower feed, you don't mean the feed for Broilers do you? Regardless, a change in feed may help. Quick supplementing with fish, sunflower seed, other meat. may help...or at least I've read that here often...then wondered how folks could afford to feed meat to chickens?

You could also separate him from the girls... so they can heal, and consider getting rid of him. If it's not the food at issue you can try another tactic - wait for it...drum roll and guffaws from the Chicken Math section...you COULD get more Pullets so they don't get picked on so often. When it is an over-mating issue - which could happen later this year anyway - in a flock of 3...sometimes increasing numbers may alter the pecking order - and a dominant female can change the pecking order a bit...for a while. Providing escapes in the run and coop may help...but no telling what an adult Roo who was allowed to be aggressive as a Cockerel may act like later - toward kids and you.

A Cockerel may seem like a Pet since he's young and cute, but ask yourself, do you really want or need a Rooster? Farmers often quickly get rid of animals whose traits they don't want bred into the next generation. I'm new to it this year, but these are my observations. Good luck with your decision.

 

[aart]

They eat grower feed

What is the protein percentage?
How much space do they have, in feet by feet?
Could be you just have an aggressive male and he may need to be separated.