aggresive hen

It's been going on awhile. I'll be walking by our chicken and she'll either be fine or she'll make a charge at me and nip my foot. She has broken skin several times. She doesn't do this to my partner at all. Though she has had attitude problems before but is generally good and we can both pick...

Our current flock of 4 chickens has just become 3. The 3 remaining chickens have bullied and pecked my poor girl to death. We have 12 new girls getting ready to go outside and I'm terrified to integrate the flocks. Is there a possibility of them being able to coexist peacefully (assuming...

Hello! I’ve owned several chickens before but this is my first time owning a Silkie chicken. I’ve had her for about 5 months now and she’s always been very calm and tranquil but very recently she’s started behaving really aggressive towards me, she won’t leave me out of her site, following me...

Hello, My husband and I are new to raising chicks. We ended up with one chicken by accident about 3 years ago. He thinks she was about 3 when we got her. She rode over on a hay truck and stayed with us since. She is a Catalana (I think) hen. Game hen. New to that terminology too. I will include...

Hi, dearlings. I create a couple of chabo bantans as indoor pets since they were babies... My hen is one week younger, but they both are almost 2 years old now and are living together since I adopted them. 10 days ago, my hen got her first and only baby chick and her aggressive behavior became...

My 2 hens started picking off the backfeathers of my rooster. I already tried an anti pick spray but one still picks him and the other is also still interested in his feather even though she won't really pick him. I have two stables and put those two hens in one and locked the door (with water...

We have a 2-year-old RIR hen who will constantly attack our 3 1/2-year-old male labrador retriever. I knew that RIR's were aggressive, but not this aggressive! It started small, she would peck at him if he got to close or tried to sniff at her. But then she started running up to him, to the...

Hello everyone! I just posted in the chicken behaviors forum about one of my adult hen’s aggression issues, so if you want some more background there, check out that post. I ordered three baby chicks from MPC: a blue easter egger, a cream legbar, and a snowy easter egger. I am nervous about...

Hello. I have a frizzled cochin bantam and a porcelain d’uccles bantam. I have posted on here before about the cochin’s belligerent personality. Essentially, Gwen, the d’uccles, was so depressed she looked like she was going to die because of the bullying. Now, I have them separated, and...

Don’t let her good looks fool you... This beautiful girl is a BULLY to one of my other chickens. Both are Delawares. Pictured is Matilda, I have had her about a year now. She is part of my original flock of 3. This past fall, I added 3 more to my flock. She has been a bully to the new...

Hello! I’ve hand raised 2 chickens so far; a salmon Flaverolle and a blue laced red wyandotte. The Flaverolle has an amazing temperament, lays good eggs and overall great chicken. Then we got my wyandotte... She’s been pecking at us and has even attacked a family member! I’m not sure what to do...

My sweetest hens name is autumn she’s an Easter egger she has never pecked any of her siblings ever one day a dog chased them around they were fine but two days later a red tailled hawk attacked and attumn was pinned but we scared off the hawk by hitting it with sticks and rocks. She didn’t lay...