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Another picture of one of the two that were getting picked on really bad
 
Your hen has decided the chicks are old enough to go out on their own. That is why she is pecking them, she is trying to run them off. She is not 'teaching them to be mean'.

I don't know why chicks this young would be this aggressive. But, you are going to have to figure out who is starting the fights. After you figure out which one is causing the problems, you will have to keep the other young chicks away from him.
 
enola said:
Your hen has decided the chicks are old enough to go out on their own. That is why she is pecking them, she is trying to run them off. She is not 'teaching them to be mean'.

I don't know why chicks this young would be this aggressive. But, you are going to have to figure out who is starting the fights. After you figure out which one is causing the problems, you will have to keep the other young chicks away from him.
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Okay, so go ahead and take them away from mom? I'll definitely do that if that's something I should do. I did figure out who was starting the fights. It was actually two of them. Once I took them away from the rest peace seems to be happening.
 
augiedranch said:
I also have never seen aggression this young before. I can't cull, there's no way. But I'll try to rehome. I have had offspring before from the exact parents these are out of, and there has never been a problem.. is there something I did wrong with these kids? Is it the "momma" that taught them to be so mean , because she was attacking all her non cochin chicks?
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I can't cull my own either, but I HAVE rehomed, with full disclosure on WHY I was rehoming. I had a roo I loved, but he flogged my young son and left a cut over his eye. Great rooster with hens, other animals and adults; not to be trusted around children. I found a great home for him on here, who gave me updates. Do it now while he's young, you're not as attached and he can't cause serious damage.
 
Poor lil guy. He's so very cute and sweet as can be to me. He just is very aggressive towards his siblings. Do you think he is more than likely a cockerel? The ones that he is picking fights with are probably male too?
 
I wouldn't keep a hen that aggressive either. Gender doesn't matter.
(For us) Other people may be more well equipped to handle an aggressive animal. My family is not. The decision is ultimately up to you.
 
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So.... What did you end up doing? I have 2 week old Silkies who are starting to do the same thing!
 
They are chickens and they are only doing what chickens naturally do. You are not doing your chicks any favors by stopping their baby fights.

Sooner or later one or the other of your young chicks must come out on top. At their current tender age it is best that they settle it now instead of dragging out the inevitable until they are big enough to actually hurt each other.

But if you must intervene cage or isolate the weaker of the two combatants, It takes two to tango and until one or the other is willing to submit to his brother there will not be any peace in the coop.
 
Is it pretty definitive that they are roosters exhibiting this kind of behavior at an early age? My two have had a few pretty hard spats, and nobody else in the brood has.
 

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