How old are these birds, in months?
The birds are a little over a year old and get plenty of nutrition. Fermented wheat and barley, grubs, kelp, cornmeal, flax seeds, daily a fruit or vegetable, plus they eat bugs outside. Their run is 14 x 14 feet. Yes, they all grew up together and this feather plucking is only done by the two reds, none of the Jersey Black Giants feather pluck. The feather plucking started around March of this year, prior to that none of them did plucking.
None of the other girls pluck feathers which seems to be an indicator of plenty of vitamins and minerals. I ferment the wheat and the barley releasing even more of the protein. The hens get fruits and vegetables daily supplying vitamins. The hens also get oyster shell and Microna calcium carbonate grit. Since the plucking started in March of this year sometime and I am in Alaska I thought maybe boredom. What I really need is a remedy. Thank you so much for your answer.
RIR chicken soup.
I put a painless peeper on Scarlet for a week and a half, it prevented the plucking and after taking it off, she didn't do it at first but then started doing it again. I put one on Penny too, but her nostrils were too small and it was hurting her so I took it back off.
