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<blockquote data-quote="Chocolate Cow" data-source="post: 1387756" data-attributes="member: 25265"><p>found this with a google search:</p><p>my experience has been that chickens eat feathers when they are low on protein. They also go through a molt at around 9 months and need more protein during this time. There are several things you can do when they are stressed like that. One of my favs is to get a bag of game bird starter, which is high in protein, and mix it into their regular feed, some folks start giving some small dry cat food, but you can also scramble up lots (depending on how many are in the flock) of eggs and feed it back to them, maybe even mixed with plain yogurt. Treatments like this should slow down the feather eating.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chocolate Cow, post: 1387756, member: 25265"] found this with a google search: my experience has been that chickens eat feathers when they are low on protein. They also go through a molt at around 9 months and need more protein during this time. There are several things you can do when they are stressed like that. One of my favs is to get a bag of game bird starter, which is high in protein, and mix it into their regular feed, some folks start giving some small dry cat food, but you can also scramble up lots (depending on how many are in the flock) of eggs and feed it back to them, maybe even mixed with plain yogurt. Treatments like this should slow down the feather eating. [/QUOTE]
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