PEEPERS/BLINDERS

[kawram]

I have a problem with pecking did the anti peck stuff, bag balm, blue kote, and adding hay, oats as well as some other thing to give them a better diet plus give them some thing to do. These helped but not enough and going to try the peepers/blinders. How well do they work, pin or no pin, any trick to putting them on, any problems using them?

 

[Momo]

I put them on my two pluckers. I got the pinless peepers; they're very inexpensive and will come off if the chicken gets hung up on something (which I think is much better than hanging from the nostrils). They were easy to put on; they're plastic so they softened up in hot water. I just did it by hand. They haven't come off and after the first few minutes the girls seemed to get along just fine. I think it's a reasonably humane method because they can still live with the flock and "be chickens" but can't hurt the others.

 

[Snakeoil]

I've never used them on chickens but they work well on pheasants.

 

[asher]

I've truly never had this issue other than a few unruly ones. Is it flock wide or just a few? If it were just a few, I personally would rehome them.

If it's all of them, I'd take a hard look at everything including if they have enough space, etc. (I'm sure you've probably done this already, though.)