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DobieLover said:
Hello and welcome to BYC! :frow Glad you joined.
You'll pick them up at night after they go to roost to examine them.
Give them some time to calm down. I have two WLHs and they are sweet but cautious birds. They are much calmer than they were when I first brought them home.
Moving slowly around the birds is always a good idea.
These three girls are now forming a new flock from where they came from. Pecking is a normal part of establishing and keeping the order. Attitude determines ranking, not comb size.
How much space have you given them in the coop and in the run?
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Thanks so much for these insights! The girls have the Vancouver, BC bylaw requirements for 3 laying hens (12 square feet of coop space and ~32 in the pen) - which seems to fit what I have seen advised elsewhere. The coop sits atop a 4-foot by 8-foot pen. Here's the website of the awesome Duncan who builds the coops: https://www.dailyeggs.com/coops.html/. I'm about to expand the run and make the coop walk-in size, which should make life easier in terms of cleaning etc! Here's a pic from yesterday.
 

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