How To Apply Pinless Peepers - BackYard Chickens Pinless Peepers; SNAP Ring Pliers with a 45° head; A blanket or towel; Warm water; Preparation: Once you have everything needed, it is time to prep everything Begin with putting the Pinless Peepers you’ll be using in a bowl of warm water That is to make the Pinless Peepers more pliable when you apply them
Pros and Cons of Pinless Peepers - BackYard Chickens The Pinless Peepers are meant to stop habits, but after reading the list above, always be sure that there's not other factors occurring Sometimes, the Pinless Peepers are needed to help stop a habit that formed from those factors after taking care of those factors
Pinless peepers | BackYard Chickens - Learn How to Raise Chickens Got pinless peepers for 8 of my chickens to stop reduce bullying Now they're either mad or couldn't see or fit their beaks on water or food containers, the feeders and waterer were full and remained full Egg productions are its lowest ever - 3 out of 10 Boy so much work, I haven't even put up my vegetable garden
Pinless Peepers Work! | BackYard Chickens - Learn How to Raise Chickens It really has been a blessing Those three sporting the shades are the only ones who have them They were mangling the other five terribly They have been on not quite a week and it took a fews days I would say for the peepers to be "ignored" Also, the bloodied hens are recovering nicely Pinless Peepers worth every penny
Peepers just seem cruel. . . - BackYard Chickens By the way, some times the peepers cause the other chickens to be aggressive towards the new peeper-wearers I solved that problem by scattering a dozen peepers around the floor of the pen to "desensitize" them all After an hour, everyone was ignoring all the peepers, including the ones on the wearers, and I picked them up and put them away
best pinless peepers | BackYard Chickens - Learn How to Raise Chickens And, can they be put on silkies? I have two silkie roosters who are beating up my regular size hens and cochins as well as going at each other any time they are not separated I need to put peepers on them as well as some of my regular size hens (as they also bully some of the other hens) Thanks
How the heck do you install pinless peepers? - BackYard Chickens The peepers will close into the nostrils The chicken WILL hate this Pull the pliers up and out Ideally, letting go of the pliers so the peepers close and pulling the pliers up and out should be one smooth motion The chicken will shake her head and other hens will peck at her peepers They get over it
how long do the peepers have to stay on? - BackYard Chickens As soon as I removed the barrier they would attack her again Last night I put pinless peepers on the two offenders, the main mean-girl tried to attack her a few times but soon realized it wasn't working because my victim ran away and the bully couldn't catch her My question - today they seem to all be living happily
Pinless Peepers, Yea or Nay - BackYard Chickens My flock is well fed, free range, pastured, organic, uncrowded 24 7, not bored, and driving me crazy Half them are wearing vests, half of those with wing and tail protection Still, feathers are fair game Will peepers endanger them whilst they are out at pasture for pretty much all daylight
Pinless peeper removal - BackYard Chickens Today, after a year and a bit, I took the pinless peepers off some of my lower ranking, but feisty hens One of them immediately began attacking the others, just as she had before the peepers went on We had been living peacefully for so long that I thought they were ready Silly me