chicken bullying

  1. B

    Chicken lost an eye, seemed to be healed, eye wound leaking again

    One of my chickens lost an eye to a dog attack followed by her flock mates pecking at it. I put her back in with the others after my mom cleaned out her eye, it was dead and causing an infection, and her eye seemed to be healed. I heard clucking at 1 am tonight so I raced outside worried...
  2. faithsbrood

    Can chickens treat other chickens harshly because of their colour/breed?

    This year I hatched 3 silkies under a broody hen. We got two buff and one black. They’ve grown up without any fights or fusses and their mother has now stopped looking after them and has went back to the big coop- which is all good. however, upon adding two buff Orpington pullets to their coop...
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    • antisocial chicken buff orpingtons chicken bullying pecking order pullet silkies
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    • Forum: Managing Your Flock
  3. dita

    Recovering Hen with Deformity

    Hello! If this is not the correct area I'm sorry in advance. I felt this might be the closest forum section to post this. I have a Golden Laced Wyandotte less than a year old who is a bit of a special case. She has had a deformed neck since birth and it isn't wry neck. I have taken her to vet...
  4. E

    Chicken mean girls

    Hey y’all I have just recently brought some new chickens home and the current residents are bullying the new ones. The new chickens are a bit smaller than the original ones however I didn’t think this was a problem? There’s a group of three that constantly pick on and nip at the two new...
  5. EricaCAL

    One chicken being bullied and she wont move!

    Hi all. So I have 6 backyard chickens, that's the whole flock. I have one Buff Orpington (Buffy) who used to be near the top of the pecking order and now she is being mercilessly bullied by the other 5. We noticed a change in her behavior two weeks ago and then saw her being pecked in the...
  6. F

    Love my chickens, until tonight

    Hi. My name is Catherine. We currently have 19 hens (mixed varuety) 1 rooster and 3 guinea fowl. I’m planning on getting Black Copper Marans, more cream leghorns and Swedish icebars in a few months because I apparently have a chicken addiction. They’re all from the same breeder, between 5 and 8...
  7. A

    Mean girls

    We just acquired a new flock of chickens. A total of 8 came together and we already had one hen and a rooster. One of the newer hens is an amercauna. She is smaller then all of the rest (red sex link, black sex link, silver laced, favorelles) and they all seem to pick on her. She plays dead (she...
  8. Courtney Jane

    Chicken Bullying

    My 3 girls have just started laying a few weeks ago and ever since then one has been getting picked on by the other 2. Matilda is the biggest bully always shooing Disco away from her food and pecking at her sometimes causing her comb to bleed. Gertrude sometimes picks on disco too yet Matilda...
  9. F

    Are 4 of my girls being alienated?

    Please advise!! First time suburban chicken mom here to 10, 13 week old RIR’s. My girls have an enclosed, covered run that used to be our large porch. There is a coop inside the run that has been redesigned because they were choosing to sleep on the roof. There is now a pallet on top of the coop...
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