Who hasn't experienced it: a beautiful litter of youngsters in the morning and in the evening they are completely plucked bare. Yes, worth crying over. But I received the following tip about this problem, which would also help. When the young are about 10 days old, I put the male back in this female so that he could fertilize the female. Then I took the man away again, and as it turned out, the feather pecking had virtually stopped.
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