3 ex batts that we got 10 days ago. One has always been scabbier than the rest but her feathers were starting to grow back and I thought she was doing really well. I checked on them this afternoon and she was in her nesting box with blood all over the inside of the eglu and her bum was bleeding really badly.
We rushed her to the vets and he said she was almost dead and needed to be put to sleep. Basically she had a massive growth above her bum (the vet said it had obviously been there a while, so before we got her) and she had been pecked to death.
So now we have two, the more confident one was obviously the perpetrator as she has blood over her beak and I've seen her giving a few pecks at other chicken's bum. Help, what can I do?
And RIP Sparkles
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One of my chickens has pecked another to death
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Kitsmummy · 10/09/2014 20:30
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