Better Hens and Gardens

After successfully raising the six Red Comet chicks to laying age and twenty eight Buckeye chicks through the first twelve weeks this year, we thought it was going to be smooth sailing.  But no, things never go quite as planned…..

As the Buckeye’s were moving into week 13, they abruptly started picking the feathers off of each other’s back and eating them.  Within two days, some of them were beginning to show bare backs where all the feathers had been picked away.  Naturally, we were anxious about this behavior (a form of cannibalism) and wanted to get it stopped ASAP.

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