pecking

  1. bumblychicken

    What is a normal amount of pecking?

    My black sex-link pecks at all of my buff orpingtons. Theyre 2 and a half weeks old so I know theyre supposed to be figuring out the pecking order around now, but I looked over and all of the chicks were pecking one and she bled. The next day, I noticed my Black sex-link pecking all the buff...
  2. B

    HELP! Been integrating for 4 weeks and no progress in older hen behavior

    Hi! I posted a thread a few weeks ago now about trying to integrate our 4 chicks with our 3 year old hens. The advice was great, and we implemented safety zones and lots of food and water. Though, even with some progress on the big girls getting used to the now 10 week old pullets, the pullets...
  3. W

    Vent Gleet, Parasites, or normal moulting??

    We have a coop of mixed breeds, all purchased at the same time from the same poultry farm. They were all born at the same time, and raised together. We have red sex links, azures, and noirrans. The red is sex links and noirrans have very irritated bums. Azures are fine. All of the girls have...
  4. C

    Bad wound on chicken butt

    Please help!! My 1y/o buff Orpington hen has a really bad wound on her butt. I’m not sure what happened. Her bum has been dirty for a bit and i haven’t been able to clean it because it’s been cold (plus I’m at the end of my pregnancy so everything is harder right now). But last night i noticed...
  5. PossiblyPekin

    Fowl Pox, Pecking or Mycoplasma

    Hello everyone, it's just wave after wave of issues here. I'm not sure if these chicks have fowl pox, swelling from being pecked or mycoplasma. Mosquitoes have been awful this year so I'm going to vaccinate my birds whether they have pox or not. But I'm just curious, there's one chick in...
  6. S

    Burnt heads & pecking??

    I have three polish bantams, they’ve all gotten a burn on their heads from the heat plate overnight despite it being raised according to their growth, I’ve put it up again since the burns showed up 3 days ago. I cleaned them daily with saline & I am spraying their heads with anti-peck spray...
  7. W

    Bare chicken butt? How to stop another from pecking

    Hello! I am a novice chicken mom with three 8-month old hens-2 of which just started laying last month. One of the egg layers is picking on the other - specifically her butt. At first I thought was mites and checked but didn’t see anything; also cleaned the coop. Then questioned their...
  8. B

    California White Bullied and Now Injured

    Hello. We recently started this new adventure of raising chickens. We came home with 4 Wyandottes, 2 Amberlinks, and 1 California White. All was fine for a few hours but suddenly the California White was bleeding and being attacked. We’ve cleaned the wound, add antibiotic and isolated her...
  9. BettyDavis

    Newbie - Pecking or Vent Gleet or Mites?

  10. bacibeau

    3yo Sisters Fighting in Coop

    Hello everyone! I have had my four chickens for the past three years and they have all gotten along fine with no fights or anything. Recently, I noticed that two of the four have been sleeping inside of the nesting boxes instead of on the roost. When I went to push them out of the boxes and...
  11. S

    Hen pecking chick vents until bloody. Wound care help please.

    Hi everyone. Looking for some advice. One of my Duccle hens hatched out her first chicks. She's 6 or 7 months old. The chicks are 10 days old today. Everything was going well until tonight I hear what sounds like distress from the chicks. Mama hen has pecked two of the chicks around the vent...
  12. nugget04

    Wrapped my chicken's wings due to pecking sores

    Some background: My chicken (about 3 years old- Plymouth Rock) has self-inflicted pecking sores on the top side of both of her wings. She has had a problem with keeping feathers on the lower half of her body since I got her (over two years ago), and despite giving her additional vitamins and...
  13. U

    Olive Eggers Pecking

    Hello! I've been having feather pecking issues for the first time and it's lasted months! We've downsized our flock to see if that would help but I fear it's a habit now and I'm not sure how to snap them out of it. I've noticed it has been worst with my Olive Eggers. They seem like they cannot...
  14. C

    Reintroduce quarantine chicken

    I have a chicken I have separated for about 2 weeks. She is often in sight of the other chickens, and sleeps in the cage inside the coop at night, I have tried to reintroduce her free range, she gets pecked. It wasn’t to bad, but when we put her in the run, she walked in the coop and was...
  15. ChickaChicka1

    One chick pecking others feathers constantly

    I have 5 Barred Rock chicks in the brooder right now. They are all about 1.5 weeks old (almost 2). There is 2 of them that don't peck anyone else at all, but the other 3 keep pecking everyone's feathers growing in, specifically on the two that don't peck. Especially one, Chickadee, who also...
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  16. C

    Fighting flock after rooster culled?

    Need advice. We culled our rooster about 2 weeks ago as half the girls had bare backs and shoulders, he put a gaping wound on the side of one and was starting to attack me. Things were going okay. Now there are a lot of side fights going on in the hen population. I have 16 hens. I know the...
  17. Lindamaeb

    Feathers not growing back

    We have two hens who are at the top of the pecking order. Literally. They’ve pulled feathers from all the others. We tried using a no peck application but that didn’t help. Five of the hens wear aprons. One has had an apron on for a number of months…. Looked at her today and she’s still...
  18. PrettyBirdRocky

    6 week old Easter egger pecking / attack older chicks / hens

    Alright. I suspect I know the answer. And while I know this "suspected roo" is just attacking those not "in his flock", I'm not sure if he'll outgrow it. ?? We have 3 - 6week old boys, hatched ourselves(easter eggers. Blue Wheaten Ameraucana is sire from local breeder), and obviously they play...
  19. Old Spice

    Stop chickens from pecking your legs

    My chickens developed a bad habit. They think I'm made out of food so they were constantly pecking my legs. Even through my jeans it often hurt. It's surprising how hard they can pinch. I cut two pieces of roof flashing the right size to wrap around my legs under my pant legs. When I went in...
  20. KimbosKluckers

    Chicken discipline? 😂

    My 7 week old gals are quite the peckers! Sometimes it even hurts a bit. Right now I wear boots and jeans but I’m terrified when it’s warm enough to wear shorts 😩 What does everyone else do? Just armor up?
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