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How can an unbalanced diet cause feather pecking?

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An unbalanced diet promotes feather pecking mainly through deficiency in sulfur-containing amino acids (methionine, cysteine): these same molecules make up the keratin in feathers, so their absence drives the hen to seek this nutrient elsewhere, including on her flockmates.

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