I only ever get on here when I've got a problem
A few weeks ago, one of our girlies managed to get herself wedged somewhere (not sure where as she didn't come in over night (we though a fox had got her) she was back the following morning but had somehow managed to rud the ends of all of the feathers on her back (no other injuries)
She is absolutely fine, but she has a really fluffy back - since then one of the others has take to pecking the fluffy feathers out of her back (a week or so after it happened) and another one started copying - the poor bird with the fluffy back ended up with a raw bald patch in about 3 hrs.
We separated the two peckers into a spare stable and one has now started doing it to the other one - so we now have one loose in a spare stable and the other caged in the same stable.
When we let the other 11 free range, the pecked pecker (with me so far??) is okish with the others as long as we keep her apart from the fluffy backed one but the other will peck anyone.
7 of the birds are just over a year and won't let the pecker peck them but the rest of her peer group will (they are around 6 months) - we've tried purple spray and vaseline with iodine/liquid paraffin/purle spray, dermoline and other antiseptics but it is awkward covering 11 other birds to stop her doing it.
They have all day access to organic layer, daily corn, greens, free range every day, oyster shell, poultry spice - any ideas??
OH has mentioned culling her but she's a lovely girl other than this