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[katt]

The chickens have been picking on each other and I think it's because they are too crowded. I'm feeling guilty about that. Two have been picked bloody and I have them separated for now. I'm working on cleaning out their larger enclosure today and making it draft-free, since I didn't think we'd be putting them in there for another two weeks. Live

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[mdwer]

At least you can eat the chickens that are hurt to bad.
What are kestrels? Sound like a great way to get rid of the mice. That'll help keep them out of the house.

[katt]

Well, the chickens are only 2 weeks old, so they are a little small to butcher yet ;) But I put the picked on ones in a separate enclosure behind chicken wire, and they seem to be healing. Plus now that they are in the larger cage, no one else is getting picked on. So they were just overcrowded.

Kestrels (American Kestrel) are also called sparrow hawks. There were pictures of them on the 1 cent stamp. They are a small and very colorful hawk. Here is a picture