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  1. Shari6083

    Bully Hen Pecked a Hen's Comb off

    This is not an emergency, but I have a hen with no comb left. My question is will it grow back? If not, how can I help it? Story: I found my hen hiding under a ramp and thought it was just dying. But then discovered it wasn't dying so I shoo'd it out back into the yard and one of the other...
  2. The_Cat

    Broody, Isolated Hen

    So, I have 4 chickens about 2 years old: 2 Americaunas, an Australorp, and a Buff Orpington. The Australorp has been broody for close to 3 weeks now, and I have been unable to break her of the habit. I've locked her out of the nesting boxes, and I set up a new nesting box for the other chickens...
  3. L

    Chicken Bullying Duck?

    Hi all, Your neigbourhood noob looking for yet more advice. I've three chickens (two cream legbar, one sussex) and two khaki campbell ducks, nearly one year old. Until the last couple of week everything has been harmonious, they've about 2/3 of an acre to buck/quack about it so there's no...
  4. GoldenCometKeeper

    Bullied Hen

    I have a flock of 5 hens and one rooster. Lately we have noticed some bullying going on in the flock. One hen, Pinky, is being singled out by every single chicken. The rest don't let her get near them, they run her off, peck her, chase her. She has to forage by herself, she can't socialize, and...
  5. sassfras

    Bully behavior

    This is just a broad question to try and see what others experiences have been. Have you ever had a bully chicken (not a rooster)? If so, what did she do to make you feel she was a bully? Did she injure others in the flock? How did you handle it? Do you wish you’d done anything differently?
  6. Sakiza

    One Goose Picking in Another - Help Appreciated

    We have a variety of geese and I noticed one of my Africans is pulling back and wing feathers off a Super African. I will post pictures below. I have the Super African in the barn for now so the feathers and get a break. Can anyone tell me why this is happening?? How long can I leave the goose...
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  7. MamaB5272

    New chicken owner concerns

    I have a small flock of 5. Mother hen and 4 pullets the hen is being very aggressive to one hen in particular, she does stand out could possible be the oldest she's the only one with wattle and comb visible, hen keeps charging at her and pecking at her it's like she's banned from the group she...
  8. S

    Bullied Bird Please help!

    Noticed blood on my RIR today. She has been an outcast ever since she molted in September. I kept hoping the behavior would naturally resolve but it is getting worse. It has been manageable because they free range so she can escape but now it is 0 degree weather and they are not leaving the...
  9. PaigeK

    Sudden bully!

    Hi there! I have had my 6 hens for almost 3 months and they had all been getting along well. I put in a heat lamp a week ago as it's getting cold and their water was freezing. I noticed some blood in the coop the next day and one girl had some blood on her comb. I figured they had just pecked...
  10. A

    Hen getting beat on by other hens

    I have read up and down the pages of this site and others and am still questioning exactly what is happening and how I am supposed to fix it.. or if I need to find the hen being picked on a new home. So these hens all grew up together from the get-go. 3 are Barred Rock, and 2 are Ameriucana...
  11. nminusyplusm

    I put my EE bully in jail for relentlessly going after an ex-broody. Did I do the right thing?

    I have 6 pullets: Favaucana is top (a benevolent ruler, rarely enforces using anything other than a side-eye, which works very well), bully EE is 2nd, 2 more EEs in the middle who sometimes join in the mean girl hazing but are usually peaceful and 2 OE Welsummer x Cream Legbar at the bottom...
  12. B

    My beta is a bully

    My second in command has violent tendencies. When I started my flock I had 4 cute little pullets, one was abducted by aliens, one fell prey to a possum and that left my last two... Mary and Rhoda. Mary and Rhoda get a long great, they appear to share everything equally and are stuck to each...
  13. MilesFluffybutt

    Behaviorally challenged cockerel

    So I have one of my cockerels (13 weeks old) in time out for being a real d-bag - feather pulling and harassment. He's on day 2, and honestly, the flock has been so peaceful. He's in a bachelor pad all by himself. I've blocked his line of sight to the other birds as best as I can, but I'm sure...
  14. scoopsmom

    Standard hen bullying Bantam rooster!

    I have an interesting flock. I have 1 bantam hen (used to have 2 but 1 recently vanished :( ), 1 bantam rooster, and 3 standard size hens.; They are all around 4 1/2 months old and this is my first time owning chickens. My Rooster is a bantam cochin and he's very sweet. A little over a month...
  15. Puranin

    Mama hen bullys her babies

    My hen hatched and raised 10 babies. They are about 3 months of old and she wants nothing to do with them. They can just be standing in the grass and she will charge them everybody else gets along great. But the fear of that hen is keeping the 4 babies I kept from roosting in the coop. What do I...
  16. Lynnski

    Mean hen or pecking order?

    Hi everyone, I have 4 one year old hens who are happy and healthy and laying. The Barred Rock has always been bossy and mean. Lately she has been ultra mean to the easter egger. While the BR lets the other 2 near her, eat with her, dust bathe with her (NH Red and Brahma) she will peck and chase...
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