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I am a Master Composter and have spent more than a decade as a volunteer Community Compost adviser with Garden Organic and my local Council.
I'm a self employed Environmental Educator so I run workshops and events where I talk about compost, veg growing, chicken keeping, cooking, preserving and sustainable living. I also run crafts workshops and Forest School/outdoor play sessions in our wood.

We try to live a more self sufficient lifestyle here, as best we can, while still having a comfortable life and lots of fun.


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Wednesday 18 July 2012

Punk hens

 I have some VERY disgusted hens at the moment. They do NOT like being sprayed with Purple Spray. But I do not like them with pecked feathers - or pecked skin - so purple spray it is, to stop which even naughty hen is doing the pecking


 Poor Titch is still bald.


 Babs has some nasty peck marks on her poor head.


I strongly suspect Tiny Hen ...she has no pecked feathers now at all and has become top hen of the ex barn girls, despite being so tiny and recently so poorly.
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  1. Julia18 July 2012 at 19:27

    We raise Russian Orloffs, and they are feather eaters. They don't peck, but they pull each others feathers out. I've tried purple spray and pepper spray and all manner of things and it doesn't slow them down. All the other breeds are just fine and they only eat their own and each other's feathers. I find pecking and feather eating to be extremely ODD chicken behavior!

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