We moved a few months ago and brought our flock of five with us. While the other four are thrilled with the new digs, one of our girls – a 3-yo beautiful Australorp - hasn’t adjusted and is clearly unhappy here.
Our pecking order is kind of three at the top, one at the bottom, and our unhappy girl in the middle. Always been this way. She’s always disliked the lowest girl on the pecking order, but her bullying has gotten noticeably worse since the move. She doesn’t draw blood, but she’s just constantly focused on the bottom girl.
She’s also started some new, loud vocalizations that are very unlike her and seems to be just general frustration. She’s always been our quietest bird.
We think a big part of her stress is that - since it’s a small flock and there’s kind of a clumping at the top - there’s no one else that shares her flock status. We think she’s always worried the bottom girl is going to take her place (this absolutely will not happen, but try explaining that to a chicken).
We’ve had her since she was a day old, so it breaks my heart to think of her living with a different family, but we think it’d be best for her if we rehome her with a larger flock and perhaps more space.
She’s very friendly with people and gets along great with all the other chickens (except her nemesis). She’s a good layer of medium to large eggs, and has absolutely resplendent plumage – purple/green iridescent and kitten soft. Super cute dust bather - she gets the wing and all the neck feathers splayed out in the sun. She’s from Cackle Hatchery, and never had any health issues.
She’s free to a good home, I can drop her off to you within about 2hrs of Chicago, and we’ll even kick in some money to feed her since we’re coming up on molt and egg break season. But I’d ask that anyone interested tell me a bit about their flock and experience; she is family to us and we want to make sure she ends up somewhere she will be happier.
If you’ve got room for a very pretty girl who needs a change to live her best life, I’d love to talk more.
ps - full body photo is just the other day, the one where she's sitting on an arm is from her first year.
Our pecking order is kind of three at the top, one at the bottom, and our unhappy girl in the middle. Always been this way. She’s always disliked the lowest girl on the pecking order, but her bullying has gotten noticeably worse since the move. She doesn’t draw blood, but she’s just constantly focused on the bottom girl.
She’s also started some new, loud vocalizations that are very unlike her and seems to be just general frustration. She’s always been our quietest bird.
We think a big part of her stress is that - since it’s a small flock and there’s kind of a clumping at the top - there’s no one else that shares her flock status. We think she’s always worried the bottom girl is going to take her place (this absolutely will not happen, but try explaining that to a chicken).
We’ve had her since she was a day old, so it breaks my heart to think of her living with a different family, but we think it’d be best for her if we rehome her with a larger flock and perhaps more space.
She’s very friendly with people and gets along great with all the other chickens (except her nemesis). She’s a good layer of medium to large eggs, and has absolutely resplendent plumage – purple/green iridescent and kitten soft. Super cute dust bather - she gets the wing and all the neck feathers splayed out in the sun. She’s from Cackle Hatchery, and never had any health issues.
She’s free to a good home, I can drop her off to you within about 2hrs of Chicago, and we’ll even kick in some money to feed her since we’re coming up on molt and egg break season. But I’d ask that anyone interested tell me a bit about their flock and experience; she is family to us and we want to make sure she ends up somewhere she will be happier.
If you’ve got room for a very pretty girl who needs a change to live her best life, I’d love to talk more.
ps - full body photo is just the other day, the one where she's sitting on an arm is from her first year.
