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Arosie
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- Apr 3, 2022
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I'll try get a picture to post tomorrow.
In all my years of raising chickens, I have never had them attack and kill each other after being introduced to a larger area. If anything, it has alleviated pecking and bullying problems. I agree that you need to separate each species.After further thought I remembered a similar happening from about 1 1/2 weeks ago. I moved our 14 meat turkeys and 39 Cornish Cross chicks out of confinement into a bigger area where they had more space (actually still in confinement but lots more room). Within the next few days the turkeys literally started eating the chicks. Thankfully they didn't kill any and the stage passed, but one had its wing eaten down to the bones and two others got beaten up, although not THAT bad. So maybe it has something to do with a new environment or more space?