Zeil
Chirping
Hi all,
For anyone in Brisbane how are your chickens enjoying the rain?
Also and probably me just mother henning, but the last few days my Rooster has been picking on one of my hens, I think.
Some background, my partner and I took some chicks that were hatched at her school. Of the six we took three are lohmanns, two are white leghorns and one is quite a small astrolorp.
They are about 3 and half months old now and I'm fairly sure just the white leghorn is a rooster, he checks all the boxes whilst the other girls check next to none.
Typically they're pretty friendly with us and each other, they play fight a bit but it's a few raised feathers a chest bump and then back to business as usual.
However the last few days I've noticed that our rooster and our astrolorp are having some issues. Maybe. It's a bit hard to tell. He doesnt actually appear to be doing anything to her, no pecking, or feather pulling or scratching. She makes this horrible noise though like he is.
I've watched these incidents through a few times now, generally he approaches her and she squawks and runs away from him, at which point he chases her, but not like does laps of the pen after her, just follows her slowly to wherever else she's moved and again she squawks and runs.
This doesn't go for an extended period, only one or two minutes if that, but it is happening more frequently just from yesterday, 4 or 5 times just in the last few hours today.
Anyone had this as a prelude to larger problems before? Can I expect him to actually start picking on her, or is just that she's got some issue with him that isn't his fault. She isn't timid with any of the other chickens and in fact I've seen her climb her his back before whilst trying to steal a piece of pumpkin I gave them, so she doesn't avoid him altogether.
For anyone in Brisbane how are your chickens enjoying the rain?
Also and probably me just mother henning, but the last few days my Rooster has been picking on one of my hens, I think.
Some background, my partner and I took some chicks that were hatched at her school. Of the six we took three are lohmanns, two are white leghorns and one is quite a small astrolorp.
They are about 3 and half months old now and I'm fairly sure just the white leghorn is a rooster, he checks all the boxes whilst the other girls check next to none.
Typically they're pretty friendly with us and each other, they play fight a bit but it's a few raised feathers a chest bump and then back to business as usual.
However the last few days I've noticed that our rooster and our astrolorp are having some issues. Maybe. It's a bit hard to tell. He doesnt actually appear to be doing anything to her, no pecking, or feather pulling or scratching. She makes this horrible noise though like he is.
I've watched these incidents through a few times now, generally he approaches her and she squawks and runs away from him, at which point he chases her, but not like does laps of the pen after her, just follows her slowly to wherever else she's moved and again she squawks and runs.
This doesn't go for an extended period, only one or two minutes if that, but it is happening more frequently just from yesterday, 4 or 5 times just in the last few hours today.
Anyone had this as a prelude to larger problems before? Can I expect him to actually start picking on her, or is just that she's got some issue with him that isn't his fault. She isn't timid with any of the other chickens and in fact I've seen her climb her his back before whilst trying to steal a piece of pumpkin I gave them, so she doesn't avoid him altogether.
