Lowest in the pecking order.

Been hand feeding the last two I’m thinking of bringing her in the house in a crate for a few days too. I had a hunch I may need to look at a bucket feeder. Might just make a new feeder with more capacity and length too.
If I was you I would not separate her, because she might get bullied even more when you put her back. I think it is a good idea to just put out more feeders or bowls in different locations. I have nine chickens and I have five different feeders and bowls of food in their run because the same thing happened to my black copper Marans. My Marans is blind in one eye also, so she definitely has a disadvantage and having a lot of different locations when it comes to the food has really helped her.
 
Poor girl. Put a few different feeders in different areas of the run. Space them out as best as you can.

I always feel sorry for the lowest in our little flock. When I find her away from the rest of the girls I often give her a little extra. If I'm tossing treats out, I fling the food in one direction for the rest of the flock and hand feed her. She's learned to come to expect this and knows to stay near me at treat time!!!
 
Good advice above. It is more important to have distance between at least 2 feeders. And some kind of visual interruption is helpful too.

we have an elevated coop, and an access deck. The chickens walk around and hang out under the coop. We hung one feeder on the back of the coop, easily reached by the ones hanging out under the coop. However, most of them eat from the other feeder hanging off the side of the deck stairs. When the lower pecking order chickens can’t eat from the one popular feeder, they eat from the other feeder. The feeders are 15-20’ apart, so they cannot be monitored/patrolled by the same bird. And as luck would have it, nobody wantS to patrol the feeder at the back if the coop (at least not yet!). For some reason, only the lowest pecking order chickens typically hang out behind the coop. also, we have 3 water stations.
 

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