behavior questions

  1. Windestroychickybirbs

    My chicks are making sad sounds

    They are on their cage, but they keep making sad sounds, I already gave them food and water
  2. horror_trashcan

    Questions about bedding, wasps and others

    I am wondering if pine needles are safe for chicks as I've read that they can be used in coops with grown chickens. I would like them to be able to scratch and dig however I think they are too young for dirt (4 days) and I read that grass clippings can get stuck in their crops. If grass is...
  3. B

    Cockerel and pullet bonded pair?

    I have two 7 week old EEs, one pullet and one cockerel. Obviously, they were in the brooder together, but they are absolutely inseparable. Neither goes anywhere without the other and they rarely interact with the older birds (some 10 week olds and some 1 year olds). My question is, how normal is...
  4. KimbosKluckers

    Chicken discipline? 😂

    My 7 week old gals are quite the peckers! Sometimes it even hurts a bit. Right now I wear boots and jeans but I’m terrified when it’s warm enough to wear shorts 😩 What does everyone else do? Just armor up?
  5. arstarr

    Has anyone ever had a chicken repeatedly jump up and down just before laying an egg?

    << video linked below >> This is my sweet blue copper maran, Pippin. She's been laying since September 2023. A very odd layer, she laid every single day for the first month and then took three months off. She's now back to a fairly consistent every other day, but she's started a new pre-laying...
  6. Basghettiii

    Is this little guy a cockerel?

    We have been told that this little one is a golden laced Wyandotte, and we are curious about its gender. Based on my experience, she looks like a dominant hen, but she has some very rooster-ish tendencies. She walks very upright with her tail raised (her tail feathers also started coming in...
  7. KimsNest

    You’re gonna get a hair ball!

    Hello fellow chicken lovers! Just curious as to why some of my chickens love chewing on my hair. Are they preening me out of affection or secretly attempting my murder? You never know with these guys. Pic of my 5 month old Serama, named Turkey (born 11/23 🙃)
  8. L

    Please help :( my chickens are scared of me. Rooster problems?

    I’ll try to keep this brief! We got our 11 chicks back in august and got 1 rooster and 10 hens, which is exactly what we wanted. I raised them all by hand and they’ve always been very friendly with me. When we transferred them outside anytime I open the door and come out they run to the edge to...
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  9. H

    Escapee chicken

    Hello all I love reading your posts. Gives me wonderful ideas and tips, so thank you. I have a small issue in that one of my rescue hens seems to have a taste for the wild. We have secured the coop as much as possible, yet every night when I go to tuck them in, she’s in next door’s bramble...
  10. Chicken_loverr15

    Rooster wing dance?

    Im not sure if this is the correct name for it but My rooster keeps dropping a wing and shuffling in a circle around me and then he pecks at my legs and sometimes he does the wing dance while chasing me and I’m not sure if this is normal or if it means something?
  11. D

    Are my cockerels aggressive, or hormonal?

    Hello, everybody! I'm new, to both the BYC and to chicken keeping. In April this year my family thought it would be fun to get some lil chickies, but now the responsibility is solely mine to care for them, so I'm in need of a little help. We were surprised to find 3 cockerels in with our batch...
  12. ChickenOfSpades

    Chickens don't want to roost

    I just moved my four 11-week-old chickens into a new pen I built, and I used a board (laying the wide direction) for the roost. They don't seem to want to stand on it, and are kind of squishing together in the corner. Any tips to get them to use the roost? I don't want any suffocated chickens -...
  13. ebisu

    Tail almost always vibrating?

    I have a chick presumably 6 weeks old and a cockerel that is vibrating its tail constantly. The other suspected cockerel sharing the same space away from the adult hens is not doing this. And I'm not talking about the commonly seen wagging of the tail side to side to move body fluids from their...
  14. L

    Emu behavior: training chicks not to nip hard

    Hello, Question for people who raise chicks! I currently have an emu chick and am curious how people train and work with them as babies. For background, I was incubating multiple eggs (full story on a previous post!) and he is the only one that made it due to a faulty incubator. I currently...
  15. MikailaF

    Chick obsessively pecking others. Doesn't seem aggressive?

    I just recently brought home six 3-day-old chicks which are now a week old. Since the day I brought them home, one chick has been constantly pecking all of the other chicks. She doesn't seem to be doing it aggressively though. The other chicks don't seem to be too bothered by it, but the...
  16. M

    Sleeping behavior-slumped to side/falling off perch…exhaustion? Too cold? Concerning?

    2x 5-week old chicks (Easter egger & welsummer), moved from basement (65-70 degrees) to garage yesterday (55 degrees during day, but dropped to 30s in the evening). They had a heat lamp and ”perch” under it (flat, no roost bar, see photo), which they have been sleeping on in basement. They were...
  17. Cocopebbles

    Baby bantam constantly shaking

    I got this baby bantam (maybe 8 weeks old?) from a friend of mine. She(I think it's a she at least), is constantly shaking or trembling, with very weird comb. She acting very different compared to my other ones that I raised from 2 weeks old. She's always hanging around Majesty (easter egger)...
  18. MysticUniKitty

    Rooster Depressed Maybe?

    So I got this beautiful boy, I was told he is about 8 months. He was with mature hens and likes them a lot i guess (probably just young roo hormones' craziness but we'll see), I miss calculated the age on my girls, I thought they were closer to 5 months but after I brought him home and put...
  19. ChocolateWingTheRooster

    Lone male ring-neck pheasant seen trying to join me and my neighbor’s chicken flocks!

    So, both me and my neighbor across the road both have flocks of chickens; only chickens. I have 10 hens and 1 rooster, and my neighbor has 20-30 chickens with 1 rooster as well. A couple of days ago, a very colorful, obviously male, ring-neck pheasant showed up around the edge of the road. All...
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