For most of my childhood, my family kept a modest number of chickens - and I never saw anything like that. I think I may have read about chicken cannibalism in a meat / egg industry sense but I never looked into it. At a guess, that behaviour could be triggered as a stress response to not having enough space or other stress inducing factors like heat, lack of water, etc but diet is also worth checking out. Entirely different food rather than more of the same would be needed. I'm glad you've still got a few committed non-cannibals though. One other thing... All of the chicken enclosures I've had experience with have been fairly generous in size - large enough for me to stand up and move around in and typically the chickens were let out for a few hours every day.
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