Aggressive Chick-What should I do?

[momperson]

My Welsummer chicks are 4 weeks old. I have one that is terrorizing the others by running after them and picking their feathers. I have 2 sq ft for each chick so they don't seem to be crowded. Should I isolate the aggressive one?

 

[Alabama ee]

Is the aggressive one a boy?

 

[AKsmama]

If you have a way to isolate the aggressive one, then maybe taking him/her out of the flock for a while will knock him/her a few pegs down in the pecking order.

 

[momperson]

I don't know if he is a boy yet. I separated him and he is NOT liking it! He is chirping like crazy and trying to fly out of the brooder. It's like he is nuts! When I pick him (?) up he squirms to get loose. The others don't do that. I already have one aggressive rooster, I don't want another.

 

[drumstick diva]

Do you have some BOLD buddy he could share time out with. I'm thinking an older, wiser chick wouldn't tolerate his bullying and may put him in his place?

 

[Alabama ee]

If it doesn't calm down, I would get rid of it. It is not worth the stress to you or the other birds.

 

[Chickengal505]

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I agree with an older chick putting him in his place. Maybie even some time with the "adult" chickens

OR you could carry him around all the time and put him in a sock chair while your on the comnputer and "peck" him with a fore finger when he is being "rude"