pecking order

  1. S

    Bully or pecking order?

    I have 8, 1 week old chicks, of various breeds. My Easter Egger seems to have it out for any of my “yellow” chicks (favorelle, Houdan, sultan). She keeps going after right above of below their eyes. She walks up to my darker colored chicks and looks at them and then usually walks away. I had to...
  2. GeeseGoose

    Discouraging Mounting and Feather Pulling?

    • GeeseGoose
    • Thread
    • duck ducks mounting mounting behaviour mounting damage pecking order
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Ducks
  3. faithsbrood

    Can chickens treat other chickens harshly because of their colour/breed?

    This year I hatched 3 silkies under a broody hen. We got two buff and one black. They’ve grown up without any fights or fusses and their mother has now stopped looking after them and has went back to the big coop- which is all good. however, upon adding two buff Orpington pullets to their coop...
    • faithsbrood
    • Thread
    • antisocial chicken buff orpingtons chicken bullying pecking order pullet silkies
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Managing Your Flock
  4. 2

    Cooping up at night

    As a lot of you know (or maybe not) I’m a new chicken owner this year. My girls and roo are almost 7 months old. And I’ve been through hell, loosing one, bumblefoot, eye issues, yes I know it’s common. But I’m wondering if anyone can help me because maybe I’m over reacting, or maybe I’m not. I...
  5. CheerioTheBuffRooster

    How to stop a hen from “dominating” another hen?

    Ever since I had to rehome my rooster my hens haven’t been getting along too great. One of my RI reds Bella is at the top of the pecking order and often “mounts” one of the ISA browns, Pepper. I know it’s a dominance thing and Bella is trying to assert her dominance but it is becoming a little...
  6. C

    Pecking order or bullying?!

    So I got 2 laying hens one is a bit older than the other from the looks of it andwe don’t know the age or breed all I know is that we got her from a feed store and they were already laying She was only kept with hens when I bought them the roosters were in a different thing but last night I...
  7. B

    Trouble introducing new hens

    I’ve been trying to introduce my new teen hens (a Dominicker, RIR, and a Welsummer) to my existing adult hens (two black sex links, a red sex link, and an Australorp) but it’s been a bit harder than I expected. I knew there would be fighting but it surprised me how rough they get. I tried...
    • BizzyB
    • Thread
    • adding new chickens to your flock introducing new birds pecking order
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Managing Your Flock
  8. missdelia

    HELP WITH PECKED HEAD!! (GRAPHIC PICS...)

    Hi. One of my 3 mo old chicks was pecked badly by one of our adult chickens and her head is a mess! I didn't actually take any pics of the first day - I was too upset and just read on here what to do and got her through the first few days (this happened Saturday 7/17 - 6 days ago). We kept her...
  9. C

    Bigger chickens pecking smaller chickens. Help please I'm slowly losing my mind.

    I'm very new to chicken raising so forgive me but first i bought 6 chickens, they're about 3-4 months old and I bout em way back in april. Decided id buy a few more chickens, bought 3, they're about 2 months old I think, definitely smaller than the original 6 chickens. Boy was it a mistake. At...
  10. marlaw

    Pecking Order Problem Esculating

    I cannot figure out what is going on with my girls and would love to hear some ideas. I spend a lot of time with my chickens and I tried to be as short as possible but it still reads like a soap opera. Hang with me. The clique of girls in question are: Frida, Buttercup, Maple, and Betty. The...
  11. C

    Two of my hens have started crowing *face palm*

    Alrighty here I am again asking for help. Back in April I got some chicks to add to my flock. Anyway got sex linked birds so I wouldn’t have This issue. the one with more orange on her neck has been suspected to be a rooster (mounting, biting us but that stopped after and was also during an...
    • Char93
    • Thread
    • barrad plymouth rock canada chicken crowing hen crowing hens hen okanagan pecking order pecking order? rooster
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: What Breed Or Gender is This?
  12. sammirae09

    How long can a new pecking order take?

    After a week and a half of introducing my new one year old hens to my 4.5 month old bends through fencing I finally braved the introduction process. I had to put 2 older ones in a small cage to themselves for excessively bullying. One was pulling a beak full of feathers, and the other was also...
  13. CableGriffith

    Farewell rooster, hello hen.

    Hi everyone. We recently discovered that one of our four hens is a rooster. We're not allowed to keep roosters where we live and have arranged for someone to take him to a happy home. And we'd like to add another hen as soon as possible to the coop, ideally the same age as the other ladies...
  14. lunahills

    Bad start with chickens; now what?

    We moved into our house a year ago and it came with a nice prefab coop, about 3x5 feet. The attached enclosure is about 30 sq ft total which includes the space under the coop. We didn’t get any chickens last year because things were crazy, but this past April we ended up taking two 6 month olds...
    • lunahills
    • Thread
    • bullying hens introducing chickens new to chickens pecking order small pen
    • Replies: 64
    • Forum: Managing Your Flock
  15. L

    Rooster/Hen size Mismatch?

    We are pretty new to chickens and I have a question about our new rooster. Sorry for the long story 😣. Tl:dr is a leghorn rooster too big for half bantam Easter egger hens? We currently have 2, 1-year old mix breed hens (Easter egger type, one looks like a black polish[Wesley], the other is...
    • LiseeLou
    • Thread
    • bantam easter egger flock additions leghorn mating problem new farmer pecking order polish rooster
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Managing Your Flock
  16. L

    Help me build a mixed flock of backyard pet laying hens!

    Hi there! I am looking to build a backyard coop this summer in Florida with 3-5 laying hens. They will be pets so I care that they are sweet and calm for my kids, and I am intrigued by funky egg color (would love to have three or four different egg colors from them... at least one blue for...
  17. Harmoni

    When is pecking a problem?

    My broody RIR hatched 2 eggs on April 22nd. They are almost a week old. We have one other RIR who is top of the pecking order, 2 Golden comets who just started laying and 4 8 week old EEs. The mama goes after the comets and EEs to make them keep their distance, but she lets the other RIR peck at...
    • Harmoni
    • Thread
    • baby chicks baby safety pecking pecking at babies pecking order
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
  18. floral_chickadee

    Bully chick or pecking order?

    So out of my six chicks I have one (an Olive Egger) that likes to peck at the other chicks eyes and toes, and sometimes beaks. It doesn’t seem to be causing any injuries or anything, and luckily it doesn’t happen too occasionally... but I still find it concerning. The other chicks don’t stay...
  19. Chxlove

    5 week old chicks fight when they see me

    My 2 olive eggers who are siblings are 5 weeks old, my barred rock (likely a roo) is just under that, and 2 buff Orpingtons are 4 weeks. The olive eggers have always been the biggest due to their age, but now they are significantly bigger than the others. It seems like every time they see me...
  20. cvlcite

    Bullying?

    Hi everyone I’m a little concerned. Im a new chicken owner so I’m not so sure yet what’s considered normal pecking order drama or actual bullying but here’s what’s happening. One of my chickens has been picking on the other, but none of them are new to each other at this point, it just happened...
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