2 week olds dive bombing each other

[mama24]

I have my older chicks outside now. I need to take a video of them when we open the door in the morning. They go completely crazy! I think they're 5-6 weeks old now.

 

[chickensinwasillaAK]

I have 75 pullets in an 8'x8' brooder, they started out running and flapping the wings, now they're learning to fly up to the roosts. Two things happen, those that can't fly will stretch up and try to peck at the feet of those higher then them and those on top will jump down and land on anyone who gets in their way. Seems perfectly normal, just like when they're sleeping, one chick will always run over the group and wake them all up. Nomal chick learning behavior.

 

[diggergal]

I am glad I ran across this post. I was also concerned about all the shenanigans going on in the brooder. I was afraid I may come home from work and they would have moved passed the shenanigans into some real rumbles. My chicks are 3 weeks old and I am glad to know this is normal behavior.

 

[Anianna]

I just wish my children would stop this sort of thing. I didn't have siblings, so this squabbling is entirely new to me. Does it ever end? I have four, but it's my 10, 9, and 8 year-olds going at it. My 6 year old finds it all quite entertaining. Watching the chicks in the brooder is like watching a miniature version of my kids except the chicks don't bother me when they've had enough of each other!

 

[mama24]

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LOL. Are your older kids boys? I have 3 boys and my youngest (2) is a girl. But I am the 2nd of 5 kids and my dh is the oldest of 4 (all boys!!!) so we aren't phased, we just get tired of telling them to keep it down or go OUTSIDE!

 

[Anianna]

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LOL. Are your older kids boys? I have 3 boys and my youngest (2) is a girl. But I am the 2nd of 5 kids and my dh is the oldest of 4 (all boys!!!) so we aren't phased, we just get tired of telling them to keep it down or go OUTSIDE!

Mine are boy, girl, boy, boy, so my daughter is right in the middle of the fray and she is certainly the most vicious of the lot and lately she's taken to turning on me and I won't stand for it. In my experience, boys are rough and tumble and noise and girls are vicious! My daughter wasn't even two yet when she started getting her brothers in trouble. My eldest three were in the backseat of the car with daddy in the front when I ran into a store. My daughter cried out and said her brother bit her. My husband saw a bite mark on her arm and her arm was laying in her brother's lap. It just so happens, though, that my hubby is a bright man and had been watching them in the rear-view mirror. My daughter, not even two years old, bit her own arm, flung it into her brother's lap, and hollered!

I love them all, but they do definitely get a lot of outside time!

 

[mlward]

Ha! Mine do it too! It's hysterical to watch them play like that. And when they get to running... the "zoomies", that's an appropriate word for it!

 

[mommto3kiddos]

My 8 week old hens do it still.. I think its play mixed with lets see whos gonna be head hen

 

[glad_hundegard]

My worry was that my babies weren't playing... they were/are aggressively dive bombing. Jumping around for fun is one thing, but this is definitely a pecking order issue I think. They'll get some play time outside soon, and I'll move into the coop as soon as I can to give them more space and hiding spots... and hopefully they will figure out amongst themselves who is head chicken (without drawing blood I hope!).

 

[zDoc]

They are just practicing their Kung Fu moves, mine did it too.