KS_Chicken_Wrangler
Songster
Interested to follow this thread. I'm experiencing something similar. The feather pecking started while the hens were at our coop at the house. Admittedly it was on the verge of too small for the five of them, so we moved them to the farm where they have a huge garden full of bugs and weeds to forage.
When we noticed it at home it was only one hen being pecked, a Lavender Orpington. It was bad and we had to put her in quarantine to heal her up and let her feathers grow back. We put her in a coop within the garden and I fed all the hens right across from one another (see-don't-touch) for the duration of her healing. Now that she is healed and has 100% feather regrowth, I've been allowing her out for supervised interactions and am getting worried. Two of the four (Creme Legbar and Production Black) are actively pecking at her, the Black Copper Maran pushes her around and the Delaware is cool with her. None of the others bother with any other hen.
What can I do about this? They all get 18% feed and my three other pens don't have any issues.
When we noticed it at home it was only one hen being pecked, a Lavender Orpington. It was bad and we had to put her in quarantine to heal her up and let her feathers grow back. We put her in a coop within the garden and I fed all the hens right across from one another (see-don't-touch) for the duration of her healing. Now that she is healed and has 100% feather regrowth, I've been allowing her out for supervised interactions and am getting worried. Two of the four (Creme Legbar and Production Black) are actively pecking at her, the Black Copper Maran pushes her around and the Delaware is cool with her. None of the others bother with any other hen.
What can I do about this? They all get 18% feed and my three other pens don't have any issues.
