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Chooks losing feathers

Posted 782 days ago

I need advice on how to stop my chooks pecking each others feathers out. They all do it to each other and now they have no feathers on their bottoms, legs & neck and crop areas. They (4) live in a coop 2M X 2M, not draughty,not damp,clean straw on concrete floor weekly. The yard they run in has shade and is 6M X 4M, daily fresh water and a commercial mix of feed pellets (15% protien) always available.I also give them a cup of cooked rice with all the left over scraps from the previous day every morning.They are let out in the open yard for an hour each day to eat grass & scratch for bugs. I think I would like to be my own chook!! lol.
Amazingly, even with the feather loss they have laid an egg each and every day of the year since they turned 16 weeks
and I have had them for 18 months.
Also one of them has a protruding egg hole (don't know the correct term?)but she still lays every day. They are really loved and follow me around like I am their mother. Please help me.
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Lianne