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    Tail Feather Pecking

    Hey folks! I have 4 three month old pullets that I bought 2 weeks ago. Its a small flock of hens with 2 ISA Brown and 2 Azur. In the last week I noticed that the Brown's have been Pecking at the Azur's tail feathers. They don't seem to mind at all but their tail feathers are balding. They don't...
  2. B

    Quail pecking…

    I got two new female quails for my male quail. They seem to feel comfortable with each other and not threatened. Playing and eating together. However one female has started to try and peck either the male or other female if they get near. I don’t want the other two to feel uncomfortable in...
    • Birds1243
    • Thread
    • new home pecking quail
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Quail
  3. ChickenLoverTrin

    Broody hen?

    Hi all, I have a frizzle named Crackle, and over the past week, she has been sitting in her box with the other hens surrounding her. When I go up close to the other hens, they seem like they are in a trance and don't acknowledge that I'm there. I'm getting the eggs out at the moment, after a lot...
  4. Alderen

    Bullying and pecking - need help and advice - I'm desperate

    I'm desperate and need any/all advice. I need to give a little back story and I'll include pictures when I can. At the end of April 2023, we purchased 6 chicks from a local feed store. 2 Starlight Green Eggers ( SGE - 2 weeks old), 2 Black Australorps (BA - 1 week old), 1 Barred Rock (BR - 1...
  5. H

    Top hen being pecked?! Any advice?!

    Hello all, I'm new to henwiffery and will have had my first hens for 2 weeks tomorrow. They are 3 ex-commercial rescues, all pretty tatty and sorry looking on arrival but really finding their feet now! As there is only the three of them it's been pretty easy to determine who ranks where in the...
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    Broody hen

    Hi my hen munchkin has been trying to hatch unfertilized eggs for at least a week now and she has not been eating. I tried getting her up by moving her with a stick and she broke it by pecking. Everytime I open the coop door she does the little angry chicken scream and puffs and tries to pick...
  7. A

    Barnyard mix fighting & sexing help

    Hello! I decided to let my broody RSL hatch some chicks. I purchased fertilized eggs from a local farmer and 3 weeks later had 8 beautiful and colourful chicks. Fast forward 2 weeks and 2 days post hatch…. They are fighting! Like draw blood on the comb fighting. My biggest bully (who I for some...
  8. J

    big hen bullying smaller chickens

    recently added a flock of 3 chickens to the other chicken that i already had before. i bought the 3 chickens with the intention of adding them together. after around a week of the chickens not showing any signs of illness or lethargy, i decided to mix them in. the flock is made out of 2 hens and...
  9. S

    Quail wounds--pictures--inside job or predator?...

    My 10 week old hens live outside in a pen. Maybe 3-4 weeks ago I reinforced it with small chicken wire 2 ft up from the base after one of my hens was beheaded by a predator. (I reinforced it that afternoon.) Then, the following morning another hen had a head wound. not too bad, bloody and some...
    • SMMS3617
    • Thread
    • coturnix head wound pecking quail quail wounds
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Quail
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    How long does it take for feathers to regrow?

    Hello! I have got a French Copper Black Marans who is about a year old now and was the victim of some trauma from change and bullying, she looks awful and I’m wondering how long it will take for her feathers to regrow and for her to look beautiful again? For context (I’ll try to keep it brief)...
  11. MetalheadChickenLady

    Is this behavior concerning?

    This one speckled sussex is obsessed with pecking at the tail feathers of the leghorn chick, specifically. doesn't appear to be attempting to pluck the feathers out, doesn't grab and hold on and tug- just poking. Doesn't do it to any of the other ones. the leghorn seems unphased... for now.
  12. JoanieShrubs

    Lowest pullet attacked by hens

    Hi friends, I have ten chickens living in a large covered run in four prefab coops (with ventilation panels added) so there are 2 or 3 birds in each house and they roost with their closest friends / age group with whom they entered the flock. I’m raising three Sicilian Buttercup pullets who...
  13. BerthaBoo

    Integrating 3 new chicks in with flock of 6, all same age

    Hi everyone! I have a total of 8 young pullets, 1 cockeral right now. All are 9-10 weeks old now. 6 of the pullets + the cockerel (all bym) were brooded together, and I added the three extra pullets (two cream/one pearl legbar) about two weeks ago, when they were all about 7-8 weeks old...
  14. G

    Pecking or Mites?

    I have my one hen who has had a bald scabby head for almost a month. I don’t see any evidence of lice or mites anywhere, and I am favoring she is just getting picked on. Vent and under wings clear. I don’t observe anyone hen pecking her during the day, but she is lower on the totem pole. If she...
  15. loyalcrowlist

    Hen pecking and holding onto finger

    So one of my legbars, Misdemeanor, has always been a bit aloof. She's warming up a lot recently but she has an odd habit: she pecks my hand/fingers, not hard and it doesn't hurt, but she does tend to hold on for a bit? As in, she'll give the back of my hand a quick peck and then bite my finger...
  16. J

    6 week old chicks pecking eachother

    So I've got my just about 6 weeks old flock of Buff Orpington chicks, I've got 19 to the flock, I moved them to the outdoor coop/run about a week ago as they had started to bully each other to the point of bleeding, about a day or two ago now I started to notice that some chicks are missing...
  17. JimBobBillyBoy

    Chickens acting aggressive, bickering, pecking lately...

    Hi folks, Over the last week and a half or so, I have witnessed new behavior from our hens. We've had our hens for nearly 2 years now, and I have never seen them act like this before. For whatever reason, they have been being mean and kind of aggressive towards each other lately. I noticed a...
  18. C

    Dog poop and chickens

    Hello, so my backyard is shared by my 2 chickens and 2 dogs. My concern is, will the eggs be safe to eat if the chickens spend their time pecking in grassy areas where the dogs also poop?
  19. E

    Chicken pecking out of control - running out of ideas

    I posted a few weeks ago about some pecking behaviors and things have gotten worse. I am a new chicken owner, have 4 chickens in the city in an enclosed run. We have had some pecking injuries and bare spots from pulled feathers starting in early Feb. We tried many things over the last couple of...
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    Help! Chicken fighting

    I'm a first time chicken owner with 4 chickens in a 1/2 acre suburban yard. They're about a year old and have co-existed peacefully until now. In the last few weeks one of my Buff Orpington's pecked a big patch of feathers out of the other Buff's back. We pulled her out and isolated her for a...
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