I was listening to an audio about someone selling chicken saddles. These are saddles for chickens. They’re supposed to be life saving for some chickens. It protects chickens from feather damage.
Do you have a chicken saddle for your chicken?
Is this some sort of sex aid?
No, it’s the opposite. It’s protection from feather damage.
Why are their feather’s damaged in the first place, Butterscoth?
Are we talking about hens that run with randy Cockerels and when mating, his spurs rip her plumage?
OK, I wrote the above before I had seen the video.
I have seen some poor hens with worse than a few feathers missing. I have seen them with their sides torn and bleeding from amorous cockerels with long spurs!
Trouble is, there are three main causes to my knowledge:
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He has a couple of favourites he mates over and over again.
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So many people buy ‘breeding trios’. That means those two poor hens get ‘seen to’ far too much, and therefore can get injured.
A large breed cockerel needs around 6 females, but the smaller bantam types are better off with about 10 females. That way he doesn’t keep hammering the same one or two. -
If people kept the long, sharp points of thje Cock’s spurs trimmed down, he wouldn’t do so much damage in the first place.
I’ve never heard of that but my friend adopts ex battery hens to save them from being slaughtered at the end of their egg laying life
They usually arrive in a terrible state with no feathers and she used to knit them little jumpers to keep them warm, although the organisation she gets them from advise against it now
After a little TLC they usually start laying again and make lovely pets for years
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Any thoughts about why? I don’t know enough to hazard a guess.
No, I had a Basket for mine. 
Latest thinking is that it’s better to let them adjust to controlling their own temperature, jumpers might stop new feathers growing, get wet or caught in something and they need to dust bathe
They were cute in them, though!
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My sister keeps hens rescued from battery production lines - they are often a pitiful sight when they first arrive, with very few feathers and mainly bald heads, with no idea how to behave “like hens”
My Sis has never knitted them jumpers but a gradual change of diet to more natural grub and a more natural lifestyle of fresh air and exercise soon got them into natural body rhythms and behaviours.
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I didn’t realise before I met Karen’s that chickens are affectionate, some of them sit on her lap for a cuddle!
Poor little devils, they are in a right state but it doesn’t take long for them to get better and most of them lay again, which is a bonud
Oh yes, they do enjoy human company. My youngest daughter takes in ex battery hens and they soon grow their feathers back and enjoy their new found freedom.
Yes,it`s called an oven.
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My sister keeps hens rescued from battery production lines - they are often a pitiful sight when they first arrive, with very few feathers and mainly bald heads, with no idea how to behave “like hens”
My Sis has never knitted them jumpers but a gradual change of diet to more natural grub and a more natural lifestyle of fresh air and exercise soon got them into natural body rhythms and behaviours.
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Oh, no, not an ex battery hen. They’re as tough as old boots even when slow roasted. They might be OK for chicken soup though.
I thank you the thumbs up Percy_Vere,lol.