Pinless Peepers won't stay on! She kicks it off & shakes it off.

[Chicalina]

@Maria Zavey
My advice is to throw the PP in the trash and find better solutions to your flock management problems. My opinion is that PP are cruel. They can cause discomfort or pain, infections, abscesses, and they just aren't addressing the problem at all. You mustn't use them permanently for health reasons, so when you take them off they will likely revert to the same behaviour.

Other possible solutions:

1. lower the bird's status in the flock, which you can do by separating them for a while, feeding treats to others first, generally and obviously favouring the others before her.

2. Create a second flock where you split off the warring factions. This might mean housing them in separate pens day and night, or just during the day and they roost together.

3. remove one of the birds permanently and rehome it, eat it, sell it, cull it, whatever you decide.

Ultimately, you need a happy flock who live together in relative peace and harmony. It will have hierarchy (and sometimes that looks like bullying) but there should not be injuries.

Ensure that there are places to hide, plenty of space for them all, "furniture" in the run for them to jump on and perch, several feed and water stations so nobody gets prevented from eating or drinking, some enrichment activities to keep them busy....

These all reduce stress and ensure safety of lower ranking chickens.

There are many ways of better bully management than PP.

Hope you can get creative!

 

[sqatkins]

I'm in the same boat. I have 3 Red Stars who bully the other birds and won't let some of them into the coop at night. I thought the pinless peepers might help. After trying several times I finally got one onto one of the Red Stars. She shook her head but it stayed, so I thought we were good. As soon as I unwrapped her from the towel we used to subdue her, up came her foot and off went the peeper. Disappointed.

 

[ChickieDaMomma]

I tried 4 times and my want to be bully kept shaking them right off. I turned it around like the picture posted above, and instant peace in my chicken village! Keep all plastic on the beak above the beak and the longer flat red actually covers “cheek” not the eyes. This raises the peepers up and blocks the vision.-not the bigger curved red that looks like it covers the eyes. I didn’t warm mine at all. And it’s snowy out.

 

[ChickieDaMomma]

I tried 4 times and my Nugget just shook them right off and chased the others plucking feathers. I read this post, turned them to what I thought was upside down, and instant peace out in the chicken village now! Turns out all the red plastic goes above the beak bridge. And the longer red flat parts covers the cheek area not the eyes. This raised the peepers up to block the vision with the smaller round flat parts and it stayed on! I did not warm mine -and it’s snowy out. And I put them on without a helper.

 

[My Flock of Girls]

I have the same issue. I've tried three times, and each time she kicks the peepers right off. I'm so upset that I may have to re-home her soon but we're about to be in the 90's and she can't stay in the rabbit hutch that I've had her in for one week & then now for another two weeks... Spot is the first chick I ever picked out, and I saved her life when she was little, but I can't let her live like this and I can't subject the rest of the flock (7 others) to her constant attacks of feather plucking either... They already look like they've been on Chemo with all of the bald patches they're sporting. She gets spoiled now in a flock of all girls, but at my boyfriend's daughter's farm she'll be in a building with regular feed, no treats, a lot more chickens/ducks/turkeys (and other birds I can't remember the names of), and be scolded by the roosters that live there. My heart is breaking, but I just don't know what else to do... Plz HELP!

 

[Chicalina]

she'll be in a building with regular feed, no treats, a lot more chickens/ducks/turkeys (and other birds I can't remember the names of), and be scolded by the roosters that live there. My heart is breaking, but I just don't know what else to do... Plz HELP!

This sounds like the perfect solution for you, her and the flock.

You can visit her. She will be happy to be in a flock where she can settle and know her place (chickens need this big time), she won't have to be isolated or wear plastic on her face, she will get some boyfriends, and ultimately your flock will have peace and harmony.

Sometimes things don't work out the way we plan them. But you have a potential solution and I'd rehome her with your brother.