I know I have gone on and on about this on different posts as I have tried everything I can think of to stop the picking! I have 20 chickens with 150sq ft coop with 40 feet of additional roosting space, 150 sq ft yard that they have access to for about 8 daylight hours/day. I changed the lighting to red lights, have added black oil sunflower seeds to their diet, removed scratch altogether since we are past the real bad cold snap we had... we want to be able to eat these birds so I am a bit reluctant to put medications and such on their back sides as I have heard that this can affect them. I am trying to figure out who is doing the picking, but my one little girl has a bloody spot on her tail just above the vent. It was oozing a little yesterday, looked a little better today but hard to tell. Any ideas?
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