dominate hens

I’ve owned chickens for three years now but This is my first season with a rooster. He was supposed to be female but... anyway I don’t have the heart to take him away from his flock and he has been very gentleman-like so far. He has only just started crowing around 4 1/2 to 5 months old. My...

Hello everyone!! My family and I are raising 6 hens and recently one of them has started to establish pecking order behavior and establishing dominance to the other hens. And with talked with our local nursery and they told us not to worry and said that its normal. While we believe it is; we...

Long story short I have 10 hens the top 3 will occasionally month the others in a display of dominance. I have had them offer 2 years never had a rooster. I do now have a cockerel "Roosty" (in question different story) that is about 20w he had been with the flock for about 10 weeks and then 7...