aggressive hen

Background: We recently adopted a neglected Black Spanish/Norfolk turkey. Now, when I say "neglected," I mean left to her own devices at [I'm assuming] a young age and in an area that is not suitable for unfettered free-ranging, unless of course, you enjoy shoveling your fowl off the street or...

Hi all, I have a hen called Bananito. She is approx one year old, maybe less because I got her as a pullet in June. Last year she laid nice hard shelled eggs but in mid May she started laying real weak shelled eggs. They have lots of oyster shells and ground up limestone to eat, and I give her...

Hi, I recently introduced my older hens to my 3 5 month old Wyandotte pullets and my 2 Ameraucana cockerel and pullet that are 4 months old and one of my older hens has accepted the 3 wyandottes but for some reason has it out for the 2 Ameraucanas. She’s pecking at them to the point where...

I had 6 hens and 3 died suddenly in October. Since then, the pecking order changed. One of my hens, who is now the leader, is very aggressive toward me. The other two hens squat for me to pet them, or even hold them and when I pet either one, the meanie attacks me with her feet and/or bites me...

I have a two week old chick and was going to introduce it to my chickens. The only problem is that one of my hens seems to hate it. I give my chickens attention, and I’m thinking she could be jealous of it. If any of you could help me think of how to get them to deal with each other that would...

I recently posted about an injured bird who was being attacked by the flock. She has healed. During her recuperation she spent nights in a crate in the main coop and spent days in our garden area with the silkies. When I let her out with the main flock this morning, the oldest hen instantly went...

Hi all, We have 7 lovely hens who are just about to turn 1 year old. They have been very tame, friendly chickens since we bought them as 1 day old chicks but in the past month 1 of the hens has become very aggressive towards us. She is biting mostly our hands--and drawing blood--but will also...

Hi! I'm not technically new to the community, but this is my first post so I hope I do this right haha! I've raised chickens since I was young but was forced to stop due to health issues in the family, but now I've gotten a chance to start up my flock again and Ive got chicken fever all over...

Hey everyone, I am a first time chicken owner living out in New Mexico. I have 3 ayam cemani birds (2 female one male) who are around 5 months old. I incubated and hatched them, handled them daily and got them used to me. My problem in the last 2 months or so is that one of the females (who...