Former head chicken now lowly chicken. DO YOUNGER BIRDS CHALLENGE THE PECKING ORDER or could there be something wrong with the chicken everyone is now turning on?
A week ago, something happened that toppled my head chick, Ester, to bottom and brutalized bottom chick. The usurpers are two Australorps, 6 mos old, that I raised from babies. I introduced them into the flock at 3 months (which was Ester, Butters (a Buff Orpington who has since died) and...