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  1. thecarmiearmy

    HELP!! Hen won't stop pecking smaller hen

    Hello all, For about a week now one of my hens has been bullying the smaller hen (the one at the bottom of the pecking order.) I know they're doing this because it's hot and they're bored. There's not much to do in their run and I need to extend the length and height of the run. I did not...
  2. R

    Bully 4 week old chick

    Hi, i have 3 chicks from the hatchery last May 17. 2 were male and 1 was female. One male last week had a bloody diarrhea and i treated them all with Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole. They are on day 4 of treatment, tomorrow will be their last day. For the first two days of treatment, the male is...
    • ReiK
    • Thread
    • bleed bully chick feather injury peck picking pulling separate stress
    • Replies: 32
    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
  3. LizzzyJo

    Pinless Peepers Really Work! Stopped Chick Bullying!

    I was very skeptical of these goofy things, but wow are they amazing! After a failed incorporation attempt post 2 weeks of look-don't-touch, I put my new babies back into their fenced area and ordered some pinless peepers for my naughty hens. While putting them on was a ridiculous 20 minutes, I...
  4. fancyfarm

    1 yr Australorps bullying or molting? bald back of necks. Help

    hi y’all. I’ve read through several threads and haven’t found anything to help with my concerns. I have 3 Australorps that were a year on March 4. there is a pecking order that was established quite a while ago but never had serious issues. within the past couple of weeks, two of my girls have...
  5. T

    How do we stop feather plucking to point of bleeding?

    Hey BYC community, We have 8 month old hens (first time chicken keepers). A couple of the girls are plucking/pecking feathers near the other girls vents and tail feathers to the point where we have made visits to the vet because of the bleeding. We don’t know how to stop this, have bought...
  6. sophie90

    Has my bullied hen become the bully?

    I’ll try to keep this as short as possible so not to waffle, but don’t want to miss out any details! I had a young hen, Rihanna, being badly picked and pecked by one other hen, Barbara, (and sometimes her accomplice) in the summer. Rihanna’s poor tail feathers were almost non-existent and as...
  7. E

    What to do with hen who is bullying smaller chickens?

    I recently lost a very small chook (probably the runt of the group) and I wasn't entirely sure what had occurred, but now I think that one of my hens who has become quite a bully may have been responsible in this and I had noticed her attacking the runt. Today, I noticed that another smaller...
  8. 3

    Bullying

    I have 3 hens and one of them gets picked on by the other 2. She keeps mostly to herself. I don’t notice the others picking her feathers or chasing her away from food or water but she is hesitant to take treats until the other 2 have gotten theirs. The biggest issue I notice is that the others...
  9. Marshyos

    Broken feathers?

    My hens have had no problems with feathers for awhile, but recently their feathers look like they're broken or ripped off. :hit Some feathers just aren’t there, and some are snapped half way in a V shape, and are very spiky. Is this mites? There are too many broken to be pecking.:( I’m very...
  10. 7

    Craigslist bully

    I live in a major city and since the beginning of this year, there's been a lot of different people selling quail. Until recently, when some A-hole decided to start mass flagging everyone else's ads to get them removed. Now only a bunch of his ads are at the top when you search for quail...
    • 702Quails
    • Thread
    • bully craigslist greed quail
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Quail
  11. Walkbarefoot

    Can you “break” a bully hen?

    Don’t let her good looks fool you... This beautiful girl is a BULLY to one of my other chickens. Both are Delawares. Pictured is Matilda, I have had her about a year now. She is part of my original flock of 3. This past fall, I added 3 more to my flock. She has been a bully to the new...
  12. D

    Bully Mamma hen or normal behavior question

    My wife and I have had a small flock(Under ten) of bantams about 2 years now. We had our first fertile egg hatch with a Broody hen with more than one chick hatching about a month and a half ago. The Chicks(seramas) are just over six weeks old. Appears as though we have 2 pullets and 2...
  13. K

    Hello from St. Pete, FL!

    Hello! I have been trying to research duck behavior, as I am a newbie to all this. A flock of 7 Pekin ducks "showed up" in my neighborhood pond. (Obviously were dumped.) My neighbors and I are all glad to have them here - they are cute and fun to watch! Except... the biggest one … the drake...
  14. C

    One quail chick seems to be bullying another. Should I be worried?

    My 4 quail are 4 weeks old and one of them has been a bit of a bully from day one, but lately it’s gotten worse. They’ve been picking on one in particular and not letting them eat. Chasing them off every time they go near the food. Is this normal or should I separate? I’m guessing two are female...
    • CarleeG
    • Thread
    • bully coturnix quail chicks quail bully quail chicks
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Quail
  15. Sherryspat8

    4 week old RIR Drama!🐔

    Hello! I am a new chicken mom 🙋‍♀️! I brought home six (2 day old) chicks on Feb 27th from the local feed store, where they stated 90% of the chicks are females. I got 2 buffs, 2 EE's, 1 BR, and 1 RIR. From the get go, I knew one of the buffs was a male (Lemon) - and he happens to be the most...
    • Sherryspat8
    • Thread
    • agressive chick baby chicks bully help isolation male attacking female mean chick rhode island red chicks rir sexing
    • Replies: 23
    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
  16. Bigbluefrog

    Pecking order - what is normal?

    So can we talk about pecking order? What is normal and what is considered okay to leave alone and when you need to take action. I have seven 12 week old chickens. I believe one is a male and one is a hen but not positive on the mixed Dominique. Dominique hen or rooster is named Woody. He reached...
  17. RhodeIslandRed5

    My Baby is being bullied and is scared to death!!! HELP!

    I have four Rhode Island red pullets about six or seven months old, a couple just starting to lay. Baby is my runt, being the smallest but sweetest of the four. She's VERY sweet, loves to be held, snuggled and loved on. I've babied her since she was a little fuzzball. Anyway, recently she has...
  18. J99

    Pool hog/ bully?

    I have two Rowen ducks and Two Peking rowen mixes ( so ugly by the way lol) they are about 4 months old now I’ve had them all together since they were like weeks old They used to all swim together every day all day long We installed a drain in my baby pool and so I had to put it up on blocks on...
    • J99
    • Thread
    • bully ducks pools
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Ducks
  19. N

    My hen has been plucking her feathers out like crazy! And it's gotten bad... please help.

    I live in Wisconsin. This past June when the weather got warm, this girl started loosing the feathers above her tail and around her neck. I attributed it to my rooster (no longer in the picture), so I got her a chicken saddle so she might heal. The chicken saddle made her lose the feathers...
  20. Orit

    Could flock integration issues interfere with pullets starting to lay eggs?

    I have been managing a flock integration issue for a few months now (and have posted about it and discussed with others on the thread), but I am not writing about that this time, rather about something related. My pullets (there are 3 of them), who are now a little older than 20 weeks, have not...
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