pecking chicks

Hello! I have a single bantam rooster. I've had him for 5 years. He was originally with 2 other hens who passed away unfortunately. The last hen passed away about 3 weeks ago. I was scared that my rooster would become lonely, he had started roaming a lot less and eating less. To hopefully solve...

This is my first set of chickens and I’m already feeling overwhelmed. Please help 🙏 We got them last Friday and almost immediately two of the chicks started pecking at the other’s eyes. I thought they may need more space so went and quickly bought a baby play pen to give them ample room. No...

One of several of my Beifehelder chicks is pecking at my Lavender Ameracaunas eyes. How can I stop this? Is this normal? One of them also grabs onto other chicks beaks. They have plenty of food and water. And I am using a red light. Photo 1 is of one of my Biefehelder chicks. Photo 2 is of one...

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...

We have 8 Rhode Island reds who are about 4 weeks old now (as close as I can tell). They are in a brooder that is 4ftx6ft while we finish the coop and run. The backs of the pullets are almost all missing feathers to some degree (aside from one pullet). There are 2 who have blood on the tail...

My first sex link hatched exactly 21 days. One of the leghorn was the first who started, but stopped. My cuckoo maran (Zebra) started pecking at and tossing the sex link chick, so I had to remove it and give it to my game fowl (HeiHei). She took it in and is being such a good mom. So I decided...

My bantham went to brooding. She had one egg we slipped two more under her at night. They all were broken, probably by the other chickens. The last on the days it was to hatch. So that night we seperated her and put two 3 days old barred rock under her. That was three days ago. She has been...

My 10-day-old chicks gather round any one who decides to take a dust bath (in the pine shavings) and peck her, apparently due to the yummy pine dust all over their backs. You can barely see the bathing chick in these pictures - she is another Buff Orp. I’ve felt their pecks - they seem very...

I just picked up 8 3 day old chicks. They are Americaunas with darker feathers. Several, maybe all seem to have little white powdery stuff on thier backs. They are pecking under their wings, which are just coming in, and they are pecking at each other. one seems to pecking another around the...

Hi! two chicks hatched early this morning and the mother was sitting on one but had already pecked and rejected the smaller one. We thought it would die as she would not care for it so we took it away (was already bleeding and injured) but the other one stayed. She is still sitting on two eggs...

I joined today for a couple reasons. I have 6 chickens, all buff Orpington. Three of them are almost a year old (two girls and a boy) , and three are about 2 months old(one girl and two boys). My mother also has chickens and is a big fan of this site for advice. So, the main reason I joined is...

Hello all, We have four bantam chicks - 1 silkie, 1 easter egger, 1 mottled cochin and 1 buff brahma. They are nearly 5 weeks old an have been happy and healthy until the last couple days. Yesterday we noticed two long feathers in the brooder box, but thought they just naturally fell out...

Ill try to lay this out the best I can.. I bought 10 chicks from tractor supply plus another 2 from same batch. aug 13th 5 isa browns 1 rhode island red 1 plymouth rock 3 silver laced wyandotte aug 14th 1 silver laced wyandotte died aug 16th bought 2 plymouth rocks (only 2 Left) They are...

hi ll- very New at this... have a dozen 5 week old white leghorns that we "inherited". The chicks are pecking horribly at each other and 3 had to be removed due to the severity of it. Any ways to prevent this? Plenty of feed and clean water available, kids andninare handling them often...