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Things may improve once the hormones settle. Then again it might not. It's going to depend on the individual temperaments involved. It may help once they can get out too. That coop is too small for 9 birds. One of ours is the same size and I only keep 4 hens in it, 2 bantams and 2 LF. Even that can seem tight if they end up coop bound for an extended time.
 
Fellow NCer here! Crazy weather... supposed to be upper 60s in the next couple days here
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I'm also a bit of a newb so I could be wrong but maybe you could try separating her where she can see the others but not touch? You did that with the injured birds if I'm not mistaken but perhaps trying it with her instead would help. Divide the run so that during the day she is out there looking at them and during the night take her back in.

Hopefully it's just a temporary thing. Sometimes you just get that individual, I suppose. My own dominique is small and nervous and at the bottom of my 3 hens' pecking order.
 
halleyd591 said:
We NEVER get snow like that. I'm in NC and it was a freak thing! Haha. My problem started before the snow. So will this problem pass eventually...hopefully?
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My daughter lives in the mountains north of asheville......having grown up in MI she laughs when it snows there cause every one freaks out.
 
She is currently separated...in a dog house. I heard it was best to re locate her to where she couldn't see the rest of the flock and they couldn't see her. That way the others will re configure their pecking order and she'll be near the bottom when she returns. What are your thoughts?
 
Not all chickens mind being confined or crowded. My bantam flock of d'uccle and cochins haven't been outside too many times this winter and they do okay. My other large breed flock contains members that would start pecking under the same circumstances. Some hens have more energy and become mentally bored more easily.

Your birds are at a point where they have lots of energy and hormones are surging so bad behaviors will crop up if they don't get enough exercise and stimulation.

It is best not to mix bantams and large breeds and to mix crested and non crested birds. It can work if room is unlimited. Sex links can be bullies in my experiences, so mixing those with the crested wasn't the best choice.

If you can get them through the next few months without killing each other they might calm down enough to calm down but you might have troubles next winter again.
 

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