4 week old RIR Drama!🐔

[Folly's place]

Yes! Multigenerational herds and flocks produce individuals with better social skills.
Mary

 

[VictoriaTemple]

Amen! Amelia was never “nasty”, per se, in fact I don’t think she’s ever bitten me. But she always wanted to fly out of the brooder (hence, the name Amelia, for Amelia Earhart), and escaped several times. When I put her out with the previous year’s birds, she calmed down a lot, and when the Brahmas and Jersey Giants started growing up, well...let’s just say she knew she was out of her weight class.

 

[pozees2]

I had a bully RIR. She was vicious to all the others, and would even peck me and draw blood. Since then I noticed that lot of BYC people report this tendancy in RIRs, (tho the breed has its defenders.) I, for one, will never get another.
I suggest you rehome the little demon.

I have found this only in hatchery RIR. I have had heritage Reds for years and they are very good natured.

 

[Folly's place]

That's why I mentioned production reds as the issue, which includes those orange hatchery RIRs. I've never had the beautiful dark red heritage/ show type RIRs.
Mary