pecking

  1. R

    Hen not good mother

    Good day! One of my hen hatched 3chicks from the 5eggs. She seems to be not a good mother, she eats everything but not letting her chicks eat. Sometimes she pecks at them. Is this normal? What can i do? She is of a Texas breed which seems to show the aggressive behaviour. I am having hard time...
    • ReiK
    • Thread
    • bad chicks day old hatch hen mother neglecting not caring pecking
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
  2. StormCoat

    When will feathers regrow?

    Hi, I guess this kind of question gets asked here a lot, but here goes: I have 6 hens that are almost a year old. We had some very cold weather and snow here in SW Ohio in February, and around that time one of my two Easter Egger hens started to develop a frizzy patch of feathers on her back...
  3. All4Eggz

    Chicks are hatching - but a potential issue

    I have a sebright that is sitting on eggs (and chicks) at the moment. 1 chick hatched, and 2 more eggs started pipping. One egg had a chicks beak sticking out, and the mother kept pecking the opening of the egg. Is this normal? Is she trying to help it get out? or is she just being aggressive...
  4. 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
  5. chickenbritt5908

    Hen hatched eggs... opinions on pecking..

    This is not my first time having a hen hatch her own eggs. First of this clutch hatched last night. This morning, baby was already dry and peeking out from mama. While I was examining, mama kinda pecked at the chick twice. But seemed to be trying to push baby back underneath her. My question: is...
  6. I

    Feather loss on back and wings

    Hello, One of my RIRs has had some serious feather loss on her back and wings. She is one of six chickens and none of the others are having such extreme loss. I am assuming it is from pecking since no one else is missing many feathers and she is not scratching at all but I have not seen any...
  7. Robiwais

    Pecking Her Back Side with Open Soars

    Hi, My Rhode Island Red has been pecked at by my other five chickens to the point that she has lost her bottom back and some side feathers. In her side, she also had an open soar and was not walking well. I separated her from the other chickens and sprayed on the purple antibacterial. She is...
  8. K

    Bleeding feathers- at my wits end

    I have a chicken who every week or so has a tail feather broken and then starts bleeding. This has been going on for 5 months or so. I’ve resorted to pulling them. But as soon as they start growing back they break and bleed. I think she’s doing it herself when preening and then her friends go...
  9. 4

    My chickens keep pecking each other!!

    Help!! My chickens keep pecking each other and won’t stop. I’ve put on the pick no more lotion, they still peck. I put on hen healer, and they STILL peck. I have 4 chickens and I keep them in a 25 square foot run, however, we have a very large backyard and I let them out in that for most of the...
  10. H

    comb pecking!

    I have a little flock of four pekin bantam hens. It’s coming up to a year we’ve had them. They have scraps, of course, and one of them (Belinda) is clearly at the bottom of the pecking order. Belinda was looking very sleepy this morning and had an upset tummy mess in her trousers so we brought...
  11. lozdoz

    Hen pecking rooster

    My hen sometimes pecks my rooster and I'm trying to work out if it's something I should be worried about. The peck doesn't look that forceful but sometimes Orzo (the cockerel) seems slightly bothered by it. Fyi Orzo has lost a wing (fox) so he can't defend himself too well. I also thought it...
  12. amynw

    New adopted chicken

    Hello everyone. I seem to always have my hands full with caring/fostering animals. This time, I've adopted one. She was a victim of a coop attack and her sisters were all killed, she only made it by somehow getting out in the midst of the chaos and she was on their porch when they arrived home...
    • amynw
    • Thread
    • chicken coop fighting chickens hen hen aggression introducing new hens quarantine pecking order new addition new additions to flock pecking pecking order
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Chicken Behaviors and Egglaying
  13. spruett386

    Do all roos have favorite girls?

    Do all roos have favorite girls that they peck the crap out of or is that just some? Wondering if I need to try another roo... My poor BA is getting all her neck feathers pulled out and it's only day 3 since he has been in the flock.
  14. andythegirl

    2/3 of my hens are pecking

    hello - these are our first hens, so bare with me as we are learning as we go :) i have a small 6 month old flock,- 2 marans and 1 bantam ameraucana. our black maran has seen the most pecking by our white maran— on her chest, wing feathers and her once beautiful tail feathers are awry as well...
  15. A

    Chicken wound possibly infected?

    I have a 10 month old jersey giant hen who started losing feathers a couple weeks ago. I thought it was just a random molting. 2 days ago she came out of the coop in the morning and was bleeding awfully from being pecked, mostly a huge wound right above the vent. There's a few other places that...
  16. abirdsong18

    Weird top feathers

    Soooo I’m back with my weird chickens! Can y’all tell if this is pecking or a skin disease? I’ve been watching for pecking behaviors from another chicken but they must secretly be ninjas. I can I deter pecking when I’m not around/at work?
  17. Fn87

    Pecking and Cannibalism???!!!

    Hi this is my first time raising chicks and everything has been going okay for the most part but I'm starting to experience issues with pecking since the chicks have begun feathering out. I work at a farm so we're raising around 300 chicks in a big brooder in our greenhouse. Around 70 of them...
    • Fn87
    • Thread
    • bleeding chick chicks 5 weeks farm infection? intestinal pecking
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
  18. TheChickenLady1

    Hen Molting for a Second Time?

    I currently have three hens and all of them molted about the same time in September or October. All of them lost feathers, but my girl Florence lost the most. About 3 weeks ago, I took a short trip for about 5 days and had a friend watch my birds. She didn't let them out at all during that time...
  19. C

    Bleeding wings

    I have a batch of 20 Muscovy ducklings about 8 weeks old. They are in a secure combined coop (8x12) and run (10x30) with 24hr access to both. They’re growing well and feathered out completely...except the wings. They seem to be pecking each other’s wing feathers. I culled a couple that were...
    • Coolbreeze89
    • Thread
    • ducklings muscovy behavior pecking
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Ducks
  20. B

    Help regarding feather eating?

    We have just had our hens for around 4 months, 5 lohman browns that are all around 1 to 1,5 years old. But after just a couple of weeks of having them, we noticed one of our hens eating the feathers of the others, especially during dust bathing. This continued and occured more and more often. We...
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