pecking at each other

  1. LotteMay

    Chicken issues

    Hello, Can anyone tell me what this could be? I always clean the coop out, they have access to dirt baths everyday, and its mite free. I have 6 chickens and i think she maybe being pecked? They have access to my garden for an hour in the morning and 4 hours in the evening... They have to stay in...
  2. Hanathehappyhen

    My hen is so trying to kill a chick!!!

    I have a two week old chick and was going to introduce it to my chickens. The only problem is that one of my hens seems to hate it. I give my chickens attention, and I’m thinking she could be jealous of it. If any of you could help me think of how to get them to deal with each other that would...
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  3. B

    Aggressive Flock

    Hi! I have 9 hens living with 100sq feet of run space. I noticed some of the chickens started to have misssing feathers below their vents and i found out that they are pecking the feathers out. It’s gotten much worse and it’s more than one hen doing it to them and now they have back feathers...
  4. B

    Hens pecking at other Hens' combs-drawing blood

    Never had an issue with this until now for whatever reason... A couple of hens are pecking a couple of others and have drawn blood on their combs. They don't look terrible but I am not sure why they are doing it all of a sudden. They have plenty of food, water, and they get some sort of treat in...
  5. chickitychickity

    Rooster is getting picked on by Hens

    Last week I noticed my 2 top hens were beginning to peck on the other girls. I did not think anything of it because they are at the top of the pecking order. Three days ago I noticed the same 2 pecking another hen more aggressively. Two days ago I changed their mulch in the run. On that day I...
  6. rebeccabrown72

    Junia, Wendell, Origen, etc :-)

    Hi all! New to chickens this year, and excited about our little flock of 6. My family (husband, two daughters, a baby on the way and a dog) and I got our chickens in April the day the hatched. We build the coop/run from reclaimed materials and live the inner city of Columbus, OH! They have free...
  7. Jmash

    Pecking problems when chickens confined to enclosure

    Help!! We currently have three chickens ( 25 wk Australorp, 18 week PBR and a 16 week WTB) and are having a horrible time keeping two of them off of the WTB. They both peck on her pretty badly. When we were introducing them all, they ganged up on her and pecked her tail until she was raw and...
  8. M

    Please Please HELP - Pecking problem

    PLEASE PLEASE HELP! First time chicken owner and am doing the best I can. I adopted 2 silkies (11 months old - same age as my current girls) and introduced them to my current flock of 4, 1 month ago. My russian orloff has been going after them but particularly one. The first week we monitored...
  9. C

    Constantly pecking at each other

    I introduced 4 new chicks to a flock of 3 hens earlier this spring. Initially, the hens were slow to accept the new chicks and would not let them in the coop at night. Being in a colder environment, I would manually place them in the coop at night to keep them out of the cold at night. As the...
  10. K

    One chicken keeps attacking one other

    Hey. There are a few posts on this but none seem EXACTLY like my chicken situation so here goes; I have 4 girls, Mary-Jane (top dog), then Amanda, then Pamela and then Jessie. Jessie a couple of months ago started molting and in that time the other chicks (except MJ) started being mean and...
  11. Bmhughes89

    Irritated skin from pecking.

    Came down to the coop today and noticed my hen standing on one foot. Upon closer inspection I noticed she has, what looks like, been getting pecked around the chest. I’ve had other hens that have gotten pecked but her skin looks more irritated than the others had. Their food and water routine...
  12. L

    Giving up chicken for its aggression..

    My teacher and I have been getting attacked by what used to be the sweetest chicken in the flock. She’s thinking about getting rid of her because she doesn’t like being attacked and doesnt want the new classes getting attacked trying to get their grade. Before summers over i’m sure she’ll be...
  13. S

    Chick got scalped (GRAPHIC PICS)

    Hello, I bought 8 more chicks to add to my flock of 4. When the chicks grew to pullets, I introduced them to my older chickens. I thought everything was going well, maybe one or two pecks at each other, but nothing bad at all. Yesterday, when I got home from school, I found one of the pullets...
  14. sdifiore

    BAD pecking injuries

    We have 2 Rhode Island Red hens that are 1 year old. They free range during the day on 5 acres, and put themselves in the coop at night. We have 6 new pullets (mixed breeds) we are trying to introduce to them this week, and it isn't going well. There has been some minor blood drawn on all...
  15. Farmgirl217

    Mean chicken pecking at others???

    Hi all!! I have had my four girls since about early September (they are all EE). Things have all gone fairly smoothly, that is, until recently. One of my girls is now continually pecking at the others, primarily one in particular. The one she is pecking on, and my other girls all get along...
  16. S

    WW3 about to start......

    We had a happy little flock of 4 hens, they lived in a hen house attached to a fully enclosed walk in run inside a larger area protected by an electric fence. Then in January two were badly injured, dog attack, and have been recovering inside the house in a small 2 metre run in the hall. The...
  17. L

    Chickens fighting

    We just noticed the back of one of our chickens neck and back were bare. We think the other ones are pecking at her. Has anyone else had this before and what did you do. Or if anyone knows what we can do?
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