Orpington11Mom
Chirping
Hi Good Morning everyone
I have a flock of 13 chickens , 9 of them are Orpington ranging from 6 years to 3 years and I have never had a pecking issue with these girls . This past summer in July I got 4 Barred Cochins Bantams . The 4 of them have always been together , cuddled and sleep together , stayed together ate together . Recently , about 2 weeks ago I noticed that one of them had been pecked on her neck and was bleeding . I cleaned her up and put medicine on her wound and put her in a separate cage inside the coop . A few days later I noticed another Bantam was bleeding from her neck , so I did the same thing with her . I tried a few times in the past few days to let them out with the rest of the girls but everyone seems to like to go back to the wound area and peck even though the wounds are healed they still have missing feathers and to top it off one of the injured girls tried to aggressively attack the other injured girl . I again separated them for fear they would be killed . I do not know what to do or why this even started . They can't live in separate cages for ever but I don't have any ideas of what I should do. ANY help for be greatly appreciated . The other 2 Bantams seems to be fine with each other , a little pecking here and there but not bad. I am not exactly sure who caused the initial wounds whether is was one of my older girls or the younger ones but as I said I have never had this problem before and have had chickens for 6 years . Thank you again for taking the time to read this and for any advise. I don't know what to do makes me sad
I have a flock of 13 chickens , 9 of them are Orpington ranging from 6 years to 3 years and I have never had a pecking issue with these girls . This past summer in July I got 4 Barred Cochins Bantams . The 4 of them have always been together , cuddled and sleep together , stayed together ate together . Recently , about 2 weeks ago I noticed that one of them had been pecked on her neck and was bleeding . I cleaned her up and put medicine on her wound and put her in a separate cage inside the coop . A few days later I noticed another Bantam was bleeding from her neck , so I did the same thing with her . I tried a few times in the past few days to let them out with the rest of the girls but everyone seems to like to go back to the wound area and peck even though the wounds are healed they still have missing feathers and to top it off one of the injured girls tried to aggressively attack the other injured girl . I again separated them for fear they would be killed . I do not know what to do or why this even started . They can't live in separate cages for ever but I don't have any ideas of what I should do. ANY help for be greatly appreciated . The other 2 Bantams seems to be fine with each other , a little pecking here and there but not bad. I am not exactly sure who caused the initial wounds whether is was one of my older girls or the younger ones but as I said I have never had this problem before and have had chickens for 6 years . Thank you again for taking the time to read this and for any advise. I don't know what to do makes me sad