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Makes me chuckle.. our chickens love hanging out with other animals. We have 3 guinea pigs they eat wheat grass with & just kinda hang out with each other , then our little cockerel likes to Follow our cat and chase lizards together. Anyone else have animal friends like this?

lol.. I guess so.. I’m just trying to figure out best way to deal with salt new attitude. Since holding down and doing the whole pecking thing, so far so good.

My neighbor who’s a farmer (older gentleman )swears that salt female And a friend of mine when they go do the 4H , she said she seen silkie hens with combs.. and then sure enough you look it up females can have a rose colored comb.. umm so basically they look just like males. So I’m just...

I got them from a hatchery so who knows they could be older. I been going by their “hatch day” on the paperwork.

No ... just these 3 and they have been together since day one came from Meyers in Ohio. They could be maybe a week or 2 older who knows.. but the buff / omelet is smaller compared to the other two always has been ... he started crowing about 2 weeks back had his comb etc all came in before he...

Welp if this is true 2 cockerels , how do I keep them from fighting and happily coexist with each other and not be a total jerk towards me and my family.

Only hand fed them at about 10 weeks old to train them to go into the coop when it was bed time and stop after about a week. But here some pictures, my 3 y/o &10 y/o named them so I think you can figure out who is who. Omelet always been smaller of the 3 and it’s as clear as day he a cockerel...

It went from the bottom of the pecking order to top of the other possibility 2(pullet/salt & Pepper and omelet/cockerel) all 3 are about 13 weeks oldish..... now I think she trying to challenge me. She’ll come up and do a happy feet dance to me and get low as she wants me to pet her. kinda...

Sorry new to this.... Coop/ run area is 6x5 feet and they free range during the day, so they have more then enough room. Today been better. I’m just gonna sum it up to pecking order or whatever you wanna call it and she took advantage of him being tired out. I just don’t want her to be...

Ok , Thank you. So far only feathers are flying no blood. I just never really expected this behavior especially from this pullet . She has always been a follower not a leader. Always the first to run back to the coop when scared.

I have three 12 week old silkie bantams, 2 pulleys and 1 cockerel. have been together since chicks no real issue. He will do his bossy cockerel thing(found his voice 2weeksago). Today all of a sudden one of the pullets is really going after the cockerel..I looked at the forms even google can’t...