Aggressive chick

[Chicken foot 10]

So I have 18 4 week old chicks one that is a blue ameraucana . This chick keep attacking the other chicks and is drawing blood. I separated it for now. What should I do with this unruly house guest?

 

[centrarchid]

What are you feeding them? If care not taken you will be separating out majority of chicks.

 

[Chicken foot 10]

I am feeding them agways chick starter and grower food.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

How are your chicks being housed? How much square footage, total, is in the brooder? Have you seen any sort of pattern in the "attacks" - ie are they centered around feeding?

 

[Chicken foot 10]

They were not around food. After I broke up the first fight it started with another chick. They have 32sqft of space right now.

 

[centrarchid]

At four weeks it is possible he is showing a little of his game ancestry. Hopefully I am incorrect and Ol Gray Mare can resolve as a space issue.

I employ an adult rooster to control the gameness but that takes practice.

 

[centrarchid]

Confine the little bugger in a small cage within the brooder. The aggression if gameness will pass,

 

[Chicken foot 10]

Thank you! I'm on it . I hope it passes too. This is my kids favorite chicken and it loves being handled by them. However my kids were not around at the time of this behavior.