peck order fighting

  1. J

    My chick is a bully please HELP

    I have 3 chicks and one is being a total bully. It picks on just one chick specifically. I didnt realize it could get this bad but while we were out one day the chick apparently beat up the other one so bad that blood was drawn and and we had to have the poor baby’s eye looked at. We separated...
  2. 5

    🐓🐓Flock Integration Advice

    Hello chicken enthusiasts! Back in April, I was only able to get two barred rock (due to some specific circumstances). I had them in the run for a few weeks, so that they would know that it was their home and such. My older flock, free ranges and would come and go from the run as they would...
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    • add hens behavior issues fighting help help aggressive help asap integrate flocks integrated chickens mating mating chickens mating problem new addition new additions to flock new and old chickens peck order fighting pecking pecking at each other
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Chicken Behaviors and Egglaying
  3. I

    Bullied chicken has had a breakdown! Help!

    Hello, I'm at my wits end with a really bad chicken bullying and anxiety problem! I have 4 hens, A Sulfock x, an Ancona, an Isa and a very small Andalusian. They were rescue chickens, and when their former owner gave them to us, he said that the Andalusian was "a bit special" - read, bottom of...
  4. M

    Hen pecking

    I hatched 3 chickens 4 months ago and have just given the 2 cockerels away which had left me with 1 hen. I was planning on introducing her to my flock that are 22 weeks old. but was told that she would be picked on if I put her in alone so I got another hen to introduce to her in the hopes of...
  5. DebbieA57

    Chickens Attacking One Hen - need help

    I have a sweet little Americauna who injured her leg and is now limping (not broken, sprained as per vet). I separated her from the others to allow her time to heal. She sleeps overnight in a dog crate. The other three still see her during the day and free range around the outside of the...
  6. KayHoney

    Help! My baby was attacked.

    This is my second season rasing chickens and our chickens are our babies! Everyone always comments when they come over that they have never seen chickens living such a lavish life. So with that said, I am so upset because one of our chickens (a little over a year old) attacked one of our babies...
  7. MarantaOrp

    New chicken keeper / Zoology life

    Greetings! I'm a brand new chicken carer after buying a house that optionally came with the chickens already residing there. Of course we said heck yes! We currently have 7 girls: 3 Australorps 2 orpingtons 1 Plymouth Rock 1 white Rhode Island (I think. She is a new addition from family and...
  8. Dwnuk1207

    Buff orpingron doesn't like husband

    I have 2 bufforpingrons... we got them as eggs and have raised them. The will hopefully begin producing eggs in late September early October. About a month ago, the less dominant hen has begun "bullying" my husband: pecks, charges, growls or yells anytime he is near her-- and no one else. Why...
  9. spiritpots

    Why is one of my chickens molting in July?

    I hope someone can help me with this! I have three new chickens (now 16 weeks old) and have been in the process of integrating them to my existing flock of three chickens (each about 17 months old) for the last several weeks. Today I noticed that one of the existing chickens, a Maran, has...
  10. S

    Hen being ostracized after absence

    Hi there! I've been using this website as a resource for the small flock of chickens I took over from my mother, but this is my first post. A couple weeks ago we thought one of the hens had been taken by a predator while free ranging during the day. Ten days later I found her trapped in a roll...
  11. H

    Help! Integrating 7 week old chicks/new hen

    So long story short, I had a nice flock of 5 hens. 3 Buffs and 2 cinnamon queens (sex link). My girls are about 2 years old. My partner and I split up and couldn't agree on who got the chickens so we split them. I took my favorite Buff and Queen. The Queen was attacked by a dog when she was...
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    • chick aggression chicken 8 weeks chicks flock behavior flock integration flock managment hen agression peck order fighting pecking order separating from flock
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Managing Your Flock
  12. Leelu13

    Introducing new roosters to the flock

    At the end of last summer, we bought chicks and ended up with two turken roosters in the mix. One stayed here with us, and has been a relatively quiet boy, with his fellow flock of 9 hens. The other rooster went to live with the person we had split the hatch with. Today she decided he's too much...
    • Leelu13
    • Thread
    • introduce new rooster peck order fighting rooster and hens roosters
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Managing Your Flock
  13. Faithcatherine

    One lonely chicken

    Hi, I'm currently in the process of integrating 3 new chickens, two white stars and a black rock, with my existing 2 speckedlys. The new hens are POL and the older 2 I'm not sure about. They're in a brand new, much larger coop and so it's new territory for all.The white stars are doing fine ...
  14. A

    Pecking Behavior? Establishing Dominance?

    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...
  15. ChickenyChickeny

    Pullets Pecking amd Chasing Chicks

    I have 2 pullets, both of whom a very friendly to people and each other. But recently, I got 3 chicks, all a week and a half old. I didn't hatch the chicks or have a hen brood them, so there is no hen to watch them. I thought the chickens would get along ok, but NOPE. The two pullets will sneak...
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