HELP! My hens are murders!!!

[RoostersAreAwesome]

There are several post from folks with red toe nails who wear open toed sandals asking about why their hens are pecking their painted toe nails. This should convince anyone that chickens are mesmerized by the color red. Once blood is drawn then the cat is out of the bag and chickens may well peck their coop mates to death.

When my roosters have blood on their combs from small skirmishes the other roosters don't target them. If your chickens are starved and/or overcrowded I'm sure they would bully the weaker members of the flock to an extreme that some of them would be killed.

 

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There are several post from folks with red toe nails who wear open toed sandals asking about why their hens are pecking their painted toe nails. This should convince anyone that chickens are mesmerized by the color red. Once blood is drawn then the cat is out of the bag and chickens may well peck their coop mates to death.

That's your science?