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Just an update, in case anyone has a similar situation in the future. 2 days after my post, the Big Chicken did in fact lay her first egg. Things have been pretty calm and pleasant since then. There obviously is some normal chicken aggression, but nothing like before. They will actually all...

Oh, and for the better part of the last month or 2 we have had the barred rock isolated from the others entirely during the day (I would put her in the coop after the others had roosted for the night, and take her out first thing in the morning before anyone had gotten down off the roost - none...

I may be able to continue the run under the coop and off to the other side for another 3x4.5 of low space under the coop, and probably 3x5 of full size run on the other side of the coop. I don't think I'll be able to expand the coop at all, though, but I think they like being outside better...

I know chickens are aggressive and have to set up the pecking order, but I thought drawing blood was sort of crossing a line. So drawing blood is normal and expected behavior? So are the 10/11 week olds big enough to fend for themselves, blood or no, and we should just leave them be?

The three little ones are all good friends, they sleep huddled together on one side of the roost, and the big chicken sleeps by herself on the other side. We'll see how things change as they all get older. The space inside the coop is just under 3.5' per chicken, and outside is just under 9'...

So I posted in the "Raising baby chicks" section about difficulties with integrating 3 ten week olds with a 5 month old Barred Rock (see below). I tried leaving them together again today, and the big chicken is still going after them but not as aggressively as before (no blood). And I have...