Try "Rooster Booster" to stop pecking

[CCCChickenman]

Bought ROOSTER BOOSTER @ BIG R Home supply in Pueblo CO.
I went there for PINE TAR, but asked one of the associates for an alternate .
He's a retired feed store owner who recommends R.B.highly, he couldn't say enough good things about it.Comes in a 7oz squeeze bottle
I tried a couple drops oneach of my 17 hens, some have lost/broken feathers on their backs. The hens checked it out and didn't want anything to do with it, didn't want it on their beaks.
Hope it works for our roo also.

More info @ roosterboosterproducts.com

Good Luck + hope it works!!!

 

[newchicksnducks]

Please let us know how this works...I'm having the same problem with my girls! I haven't actually seen them feather pecking, but I have seen the results!! Naked backs, sparse butt fluff, and not a rooster in the flock to blame...I'll have to see if any local feed store in Ohio sells this.

 

[Cindy in PA]

I've used this for years & it works and smells great. Does turn them an odd color. I like that it has tea tree oil and aloe in it.

 

[MareeZoCool]

So you put that RB stuff on the roo's beaks?

 

[speckledhen]

Didn't work for me. It is made of coal tar and smells okay, but my hens just ate it off the comb and wattles of my rooster.

 

[Dora'smom]

It didn't really work for us, either. Worked better than a few other things (blu-kote), etc., but not enough. We wound up with the pinless peepers, and they have allowed my girls to regrow most of their feathers.

 

[gritsar]

I'll stick with pine tar. Smells horrible, a mess to apply, works with one application.

 

[feathersnuggles]

It's interesting, to me, to find this thread. My littlest hen, an EE, has been recently sporting a patch of broken hackle feathers. Because of the color pattern in her hackles, the missing feathers are noticeable. She's the lowest on the pecking order, so I figured someone was attacking her. Thus, I had a bottle of RB "Pick No More Lotion" and squeezed some along her back hackle feathers. Wow, the "fragrance" of the tea tree oil was pungent at night, when they were on the roost. No hen wanted to be near her. I felt bad for her, since she was trying to get the stuff off. I'm hoping it does the trick. Haven't applied it again.

 

[sotelomary]

I've tried it and it didn't work that well for me either. I put it on once a day and I think you probably need to put it on more often. It's just a pain to keep reapplying and I've almost used the whole bottle. I think it has just kept the pecking ones from getting worse. But I think some of the other hens are also starting to peck alittle bit. I ordered the peepers but got the ones with pins. After I found out how you put them on, I decided to return them and order the "pinless" ones. I plan to put on all 5 hens to be able to break the habit of ALL of them.

Mary

 

[Gargoyle]

A question on Rooster Booster Pick-no-more
My girls have plenty of space, plenty of food, lots to do, but one of them (Donna) has acquired a taste for feathers and she's picking at the others and the rooster pretty heavily. Blue-kote helped a bit, but not enough. I just got some Pick-no-more, spread it on them pretty thick. They immediately started trying to get it off themselves, shaking their heads and picking at their own feathers. Donna picked at it a bit, but it seems she doesn't like it (she immediately shakes her head and scrapes her beak on a rock, but then she picks at another bird), so I hope it stops her; but if instead they start picking at themselves that's no good.

Has anyone else run into that, where they pick at themselves to try to get rid of it? Did I spread it on too thickly, or will they settle down overnight as it dries out? I'm guessing it stings or the smell bothers them a lot.

I guess if they don't start behaving by tomorrow I'll have to buy pinless peepers.

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followup: this morning they've calmed down considerably. I'll keep an eye on them today, but it seems like they've either gotten used to having the stuff on them, or it's dried out and it doesn't itch/irritate/burn/annoy or whatever it was doing at first.