bully behavior

Hello new to the chicken game. Long story short I rescued a bantam chicken that was wondering around the neighborhood. No one claimed it after asking all around. I ended up getting a baby New Hampshire chick she is now about 6 weeks old. She's the same size as the bantam which is maybe 1 year...

Hi all! I’m new here and to raising chickens. We have 9 silkie chicks, 4 are about 7 weeks old and 5 are about 5 weeks old. One of the 5 week old chicks has a cross beak and I am starting to get concerned about if he/she is getting enough nutrients. He/she is definitely smaller than the other...

Morning, folks! I struggled with this and had to search high and low for a good solution. Posting here, in case it can help others. ❤ I picked up three day-old dark Brahma chicks from the feed store three days ago. Day one was awesome. On day two, one of the chicks started pecking at her...

My friend has a silkie that keeps getting picked on even by another silkie. Is there something she can do to stop it? It’s been on going. She’s separated the bully hens and when putting them back they continue to pick on the one silkie. She’s checked her over and she’s not sick. She has a...

Help! I'll try to look around at previous notes, but one of our 4 'pullets' turned out to be a rooster. He's six months old and not been too mean to the hens until yesterday, when I found that one of the two year old hens we have has been injured on the head and won't move or eat. I separated...

Our cockerel (4 months old) is bullying all of our pullets (4 months and 3 month) he jumps on top of them and starts pecking at their head, all the other cockerels peck the pullets at nighttime when they're about to roost. We're keeping the bully rooster that jumps on hens in a coop outside...

What chicken should I get? More importantly what chicken fits me? I want a chicken around 4-5 pounds so they are around the same size of my Easter Eggers so it’s not much bullying or fighting what so ever. I want a nice breed that’s some what around 4-5 pounds any ideas? What would get along...

I have two female quail that are having trouble getting along. For context, I have a wild coloured one called Rigby and a Italian coloured one called Butter (Rigby is slightly larger in size). They have laid eggs so I know they are both female. Rigby was hand -raised alone, while Butter was...

I recently got 2 young hens, both of them are around 2-3 months old. My older hens are around 1 year and 4 months old, and they won't stop bullying the younger ones. The little ones are too scared to even come out and drink water. What should I do?

I have 2 bufforpingrons... we got them as eggs and have raised them. The will hopefully begin producing eggs in late September early October. About a month ago, the less dominant hen has begun "bullying" my husband: pecks, charges, growls or yells anytime he is near her-- and no one else. Why...

Hi, I raised my Khaki Campbell from the egg 9 years ago; she provided me a bounty of eggs for many years. She stopped laying eggs several years ago and shortly after that, she developed a tail curl feather. She maintains her hen quack. Has anyone else ever had this happen??? If so, how did...

I hope someone can help me with this! I have three new chickens (now 16 weeks old) and have been in the process of integrating them to my existing flock of three chickens (each about 17 months old) for the last several weeks. Today I noticed that one of the existing chickens, a Maran, has...

Need some help! We have had backyard chickens for three years now. Our one hen gets broody every spring, the first time we tried to break it but then gave up and got her hatching eggs. She was a great mom had a little trouble when the babies first hatched, but then raised them like a pro. We...

Three nights for a bully hen, right? Our older flock consists of eight hens and a year-old rooster who has just earned his spurs, so to speak. The younger flock is 14 weeks old and yes, we did integrate them a little early by a couple of weeks but for the most part it's going well. The chicklets...