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What to do when your birds are always fighting and pecking

Advice to him was reduce the number of chicken per shed, increase number of feeders and drinkers and get well-structured laying boxes.PHOTO: STANDARD

Mr Njenga is an ardent reader of this column and has been keeping poultry for the last four years.

One of the challenges he has constantly faced is cannibalism — a bad habit (vice) mostly manifested as vent picking, picking of unfeathered skin on the head, toes, comb or wattle.

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