Scratch grain does not have enough protein by itself. When chickens don't have enough protein they will start to cannibalize each other. Pecking at vents etc.
Walt
If Aussies are mellower, they won't be killing foxes. Orientals have been bred for centuries to be aggressive and are nothing like chickens you find in parks etc.. If I dropped off one of my birds at a park (Male or female) there would be no other chickens in a very short time. Since you are...
I have the same experience you have. My Asils start killing each other at about 4 weeks and they don't care if they are male or females...my Shamo's start that at about 6 weeks. I doh't know what these other guys are raising, but I have had Orientals for over 35 years and I can't keep a pen of...
As you said the fox got into a Pen of Aussies. I have no orientals that can be put together in a pen and expect them all to be alive after after a few minutes. A fox can easily take out a pen of any kind of chickens unless the fox was a week old and the implication was that this happened at...