they need to re-establish their pecking order. If you remove one or two then some get to move up in the pecking order. If a certain amount of time elapses then you put them back then THE pecking order needs readjusted. But I had told her. She ignored me. And her chickens were in a over crowded...
That happened to me. When I took the rooster back a month later the idiot lady put it back in the pen with all the others. And the other chickens killed him. I told them not too. I was so upset.
https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=826751250683234&id=100000451019041&set=a.641561159202245.1073741825.100000451019041&source=43 if this works. this is the father. I am not sure what you mean by base color. His neck is now a lot lighter.
NEW to group. These are mix breed chicks. Five weeks old. The father is 1/2 araucana/bantam. The little black one is out of a silver lace hamburg. I think she is a pullet.