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I assumed! Feather picking from overcrowding doesn't tend to resolve itself without changes that I'm sure you would have mentioned in response to my other questions had they been a factor. 🙂 Definitely worth it to build as big as you can for these birds, especially if you live somewhere that...

Yes, I considered that to fall under the category of boredom, as in stuck in a small pen without anything to do, but that's worth mentioning on its own as well. Bare minimum 4 square feet per bird inside the coop and 10 square feet per bird outside of the coop. Interesting. 🤔 Perhaps it was...

Apologies, I ran out to close up my coops for the night before you posted and just now got back in and back to my computer! Did you happen to take any pictures of the area when this was happening? That does, indeed, sound like it could be feather picking. Had you changed anything about your...

That's likely a sign of the hens aging then, yes. Yeah, as far as I have found on it, vitiligo is like 95% of the time just cosmetic with the occasional thing like a decline in feather quality associated with it in very few cases. Vision loss, if it were to occur in him, would occur over time...

Your hens look to me like they just have the feather sheaths stuck on some of their feathers. It's hard to tell for sure from the pictures because they blur when I try to zoom, but the shape looks like feather sheaths to me. If that's not the case and those are actual feathers that are white...