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> It's not uncommon for an entire hen house to wind up murdered if you don't sex your chickens. Can you explain what you mean by this?

• b112 1y ago
  Just google chicken glasses as a start of a thread to pull on.
  • esperent 1y ago
    Yes, I'm aware that chickens can be aggressive or even occasionally cannibalistic (although that's never happened to any groups of chickens I've seen). But that doesn't explain anything about why you're saying an entire hen house can be murdered when you fail to sex chicks. I've never heard that male chicken are worse in this regard, excessive feather pecking is a result of keeping chickens in terrible environments like battery/cage farms and happens in fully female groups. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feather_pecking https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feather_pecking
    • hansvm 1y ago
      It happens from time to time even with free range chickens if a rooster picks a fight while they're all in the coop for the night.