Feather pecking

[chickmama2014]

Hello,
I got a few new chickens over a week ago that are about 12 weeks old. Anyway the Welsummer came with a bare tail head, which the last warned me about. On further inspection of all the birds two other ones also had feather pecking of their tail base. I caught the culprits. Splash Marans and Blue Copper Marans. They are mean little girls. Watched them peck those fresh feathers coming in. The splash worse than the blue. So anyway they are all separated. The marans in their own pop ups and the two others together and then the three that were ok are together. There is already great feather growth in over a week but how long will I need to keep them separate? We talking weeks or months?

 

[The Coop Crew]

You could try to reintegrate and if it continues you could try pinless peepers (sold on Amazon).
Are they getting a balanced diet? If not that can cause feather picking.
What about space? Do they have enough room?

 

[FrostRanger]

What's the protein percentage of their feed? How big is their coop and run in feet and absolutely try pinless peepers

 

[chickmama2014]

You could try to reintegrate and if it continues you could try pinless peepers (sold on Amazon).
Are they getting a balanced diet? If not that can cause feather picking.
What about space? Do they have enough room?

I’m not sure what kind of room they had where they were at and that’s where it had have started at. Then I assume the stress of being moved is what caused more abuse. I have them in nutrena naturalize chick bits. Also tried to add in sunflowers but they don’t seem to like those.

 

[The Coop Crew]

I’m not sure what kind of room they had where they were at and that’s where it had have started at. Then I assume the stress of being moved is what caused more abuse. I have them in nutrena naturalize chick bits. Also tried to add in sunflowers but they don’t seem to like those.

Well if they have adequate space now and the right balanced diet I would try to move everyone back together and see how it goes but have pinless peepers on hand just in case!

 

[chickmama2014]

Well if they have adequate space now and the right balanced diet I would try to move everyone back together and see how it goes but have pinless peepers on hand just in case!

Thank you!

 

[chickmama2014]

What's the protein percentage of their feed? How big is their coop and run in feet and absolutely try pinless peepers

18% and 30x60

 

[FrostRanger]

Might be something they picked up before you got them then, separate as you're doing now and then put pinless peepers when you reintroduce them

 

[chickmama2014]

Update: look how beautifully she is healing! First photo is a couple weeks ago. Second photo is right now. They’ve also all integrated with the big girls and doing fine.