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  1. C

    Older chick bullying younger chicks

    Hi there, wondered if anybody had any advice on this. We have 5x Brahma chicks that are 4 weeks old and 2x Orpington chicks that are 3 days old. Initially we had them all together for the first day we got them. But the older chicks kept pecking the younger ones and 90% of the time it was the...
  2. DuckyLuv

    Help!!! Bully in the playground.

    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...
    • DuckyLuv
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    • bully bully behavior curled feathers drake duck
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Ducks
  3. S

    Bullied female guinea... HELP

    I have my first 4 birds, about 3 months old and doing well. My brother has 8 with one small female all the others chase and corner. She isolates herself in the coop and squawks constantly. I traded her out with one of mine to see if changing to a different flock would help her. My three are...
    • Sarahjarts
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    • behavior bully continuous squawking female
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Guinea Fowl
  4. Clucky-Cathy

    Barred Rock Bullies

    Needing some advice on chicken bullying... A couple of months ago we got 4 barred rock pullets and have recently added 2 orpingtons to our small flock. We introduced the orpingtons slowly and kept them separate from the rocks for a while. Now they are all in the same coop/run together (the run...
  5. jordana

    Switching chickens!

    After some brutal pecking that led to surgery, and now a month of isolation for treatment for one of my cream legbar girls I have decided to get rid of my three bully chickens (RIRXAustralorp) from my flock, however I’m keen to maintain the same sized flock. Aside from the bullies I have 2...
    • jordana
    • Thread
    • bully cream legbar docile isolation polish reintegration reintroduce wyandotte
    • Replies: 24
    • Forum: Managing Your Flock
  6. frackmomma

    I'm new! Need baby chick help...

    Hello! I've been watching this site for a while but just got four new baby chicks from our local feed store, so I thought it was time to officially join! The first three days my chicks were doing great, and then I noticed my Rhode Island Red was not as active as the others and had some white...
  7. Smalfarmchik

    New girls in town

    I have 8 layers, 4 of which i just got and put in the coop. The other girls are bullying them and injuring them. Also egg production has dropped in the old girl and only 1 of the new girls is laying. The new girls came from a very dirty, confined place and are timid to begin with. I am...
  8. Stacyoung13

    My Roo is mean with his girls

    Hi, for the last few days, almost a week. Splash, my silkie roo, has been coming out of the coop in the mornings chasing and pecking at the girls. And it's hard pecks, for about 3-4 minutes he will run around chasing and pecking them, then they settle down and eat. He acts normal with them the...
  9. DiscoverwithDave

    Discover With Dave

    Hello Folks, I just joined and it was suggested to introduce myself. I am New to chickens. I just started in May 2018. Our town only allows 6 birds so I got 4 chickens and 2 Guinea hen. The chickens are a Red Cross, 1 Buff Orpington, and 2 Plymouth rock ( 1 white 1 barred) The original...
  10. Denverhomestead

    Integrating a single pullet into flock

    Hi everyone! I've had chickens for about 5 years, currently have two 5year old RIRs. One of them is a bit of a bully. I purchased 3 chicks this summer, but 2 died, sadly, of different causes, we think. (I dropped the 2nd one off for necropsy). So now, i have 1 lone aericauna pullet left...
    • Denverhomestead
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    • bully bully hen flock behavior flock integration flock management isolation necropsy pullet pullet death single chicken
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
  11. Jjdesmo11

    Cockerel bullying the bully?

    When a cockerel is becoming mature does he assume a higher pecking order? And if a cockerel becomes mature before the hens will there be aggression problems? I recently put a juvenile crew together to accompany my lonely Salmon faverolle cockerel. He got coccidiosis and I had him confined for...
  12. nminusyplusm

    Ongoing bully/victim saga: new and not so improved with hen on hen mounting

    I thought I had the bullying under control at this point with perches, places to hide, pinless peepers and multiple feed and water stations. They were all doing great. The victim has gained weight, feathers were growing back, is able to hang out with, eat next to and be a member of the flock and...
  13. Nats Chickens

    Mean Hen.

    Pip, one of my chickens, really has it for poor old Jewel, one of my other chickens. I am at my breaking point with her as I go out in the yard and Jewel comes running to greet me, and about 75% of the time her comb is torn or shredded from Pip mounting her. She drives me crazy because she...
  14. Carolrich

    Super bully

    Our 2 1/2 year old ISA Brown hen (Ollie) has suddenly become a super predator to all the other hens except the one she grew up with, Greta. We have two 2 1/2 year old ISA Browns and six 22 week Wyandottes and Plymouth Rocks. As soon as Ollie emerges from the coop into the run in the morning she...
  15. T

    Bully rooster

    I have 10 hens and one rooster. The rooster is a beautiful leghorn, rhode island red mix. He was raised with two Buff hens and a Red hen. Last month I noticed he was attacking one of the Buffs. Literally attacking her and chasing her away. I watched and thought he may be mad b/c she was...
  16. mzhof

    Bully Easter Egger

    So my 12 girls are 5-6 weeks now and raised together since week one. Yesterday I noticed Ava the Easter Egger was bullying JoJo my speckled Sussex. They're the same size, JoJo has always been one of the friendliest chicks so is one of my favorites. Ava has pecked at her neck and purposely...
  17. ilovedragons2

    What breed is this?

    I bought 8 chicks this spring from a farm supply store. They were supposed to be Rhode Island Red, Buff Orphington, Silver Lace Wynndot, and Auracauna. They were all labeled as pullets. One "hen" got bigger than the others and began bullying the rest of the flock, one to the point where she...
  18. A

    5 1/2 month old hen vs. 1 1/2 month old chick

    i have a 5.5 month old black star hen. (Well I guess she is a pullet because she as t laid?). I put her in the coop with a 2 month old Silverlaced Wyandotte, and a 1.5 month old Cochin cross chick. She took the Wyandotte under her wing litterally... the Wyandotte sleeps under her like a baby...
  19. danceswithronin

    Update on bully <1 week old chick vent-pecking.

    This weekend I posted a thread about my smallest buff silkie chick very aggressively vent-pecking two of my other chicks until they had no fuzz left on their tails and their tail-tips were bloodied. Well I spent a LOT of the past weekend monitoring the chicks - whenever the bully chick went...
  20. nminusyplusm

    Hen with swollen eyes decides to go broody while sick and the bullying restarts. Ugh.

    I have a multifaceted problem and am wondering what else I should do. My flock of 3 EEs, a Faverolle x Ameruacana and a Welsummer x Cream Legbar olive egger is closed due to CRD, most likely MG as 2 of my 5 have presented with unusual breathing sounds at different times although everyone has...
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