The expression "pecking order" is a real thing. There is an order with birds. Two of the hens, Honey and Chicken Little, are the two that get pecked or bullied.
With the snow confining them to the coop, it's difficult for these two to get away from the bigger, more aggressive birds.
Chicken Little took the beating this weekend with the 20" of snow. I can't tell if she ran into something or got pecked, or both. She has so many head feathers she can't see where she is going, so she does run into things. She got a haircut a while ago, but it's grown back over her eyes.
She is confined to a bathroom now until she heals. The top pic is before cleaning her up. The lower pictures show her new haircut and ointment on her wound.
I need to trim more of her feathers, but at this point she had had enough.
When she gets talking loudly in the bathroom, the cats about go nuts.
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