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Yes that is a good idea. I was wondering if I could set up my tablet and some how record during the day what was happening. Yesterday I checked on them in the AM, no issues. Hubby took lunch break at home, still no issues at 12. But when I got home at 3 she had blood coming from a broken butt...

I’m attaching a picture of the feed the feed store told me to get after the second bout of finding her with blood on her rear. Initially I was stressed thinking maybe it’s mites and I just don’t see them. So I looked up what our local 4-H recommended, and they said pre-showing to wash hens in a...

Yes I’m 100% positive it’s not mites/lice. And I know it’s not bullying, because I sit and watch when I toss out sunflower seeds and everyone eats peacefully together etc. But that’s interesting you have a hen that has a weird tick and likes to just pluck feathers. My initial thing was to...

It’s 20% protein feather fixer feed. Can a hen reach this area on her own and pull out her own bottom feathers. Or is it someone else doing it? Any why would this happen if she’s not getting bullied in any other way? Never had this happen in 3 yrs. So I’m wondering if it’s the new bantam we...

It happened again today, between 12 & 3 pm. We have been checking her multiple times a day. And I’m getting frustrated! Over the past 1.5 months one of my hens, has lost her butt feathers. Once a week it seems I come outside to find her with a bloody back end from broken feathers. I bring her...