Just picked up these chicks today and some including this had a little pasty butt. Never seen this before on any other chicks I've gotten.
Some also had a black dot in this same area. Im worried they might had a disease or something
Update: Penned the roo. He drew blood on one of the older chickens that I tried to let be reintroduced. Just continously, viciously kept pecking at her head.
The newer hens and older hens don't seem to have an issue? I'm not opposed, if he's still shunning even just the one after a few days. I'm going to switch them and pen him.
Hopefully it'll deter the egg eater too if she's not being forced in the coop all the time. I just worry about betraying...
He is the only roo. However the older hens used to have a roo before this new one that they grew up with. They lost the roo, and 2 other hens so now it's them 3 and the newer flock.
I definitely know they were scarred from the loss of their original flock and they were obviously on the top of...
Should I let the older hens out one at a time?
I'm also dealing with an egg eater which is one of the older hens. When he goes to chase/mate with an older one, they run into the coop and hide in there and then start eating the eggs, so I'm also trying to avoid that.
He doesn't chase the other 9...
Hi Chicken friends! Ty for helping me so much!
My Roo is definitely mean/doesn't like my older hens (I have 3 of them and 9 younger/same age as him)
I separated the older 3 because one of them is also an egg eater. I let one out today to see what Roo would do and he immediately chased hen into...
Hi Chicken friends! Ty for helping me so much!
My Roo is definitely mean/doesn't like my older hens (I have 3 of them and 9 younger/same age as him)
I separated the older 3 because one of them is also an egg eater. I let one out today to see what Roo would do and he immediately chased hen into...
New situation going on in our flock:
Our Rooster has now come of age, crowing, being a dude etc.
Before he started to crow my older hens would put him in his place a bit (which was kinda nice cause our last rooster was meeeaaann)
Now it seems like rooster is running the older hens into the coop...