Agressive chick

[Debbie292d]

This little one only does the pecking when I wake them up in the morning. It does it to the poor little one several times until I take the little one being pecked out for a little bit.

When I had a toe-picker once, I kept twapping it with my finger when it did that. I'd stand there for 15-20 minutes and it would stop while I was there, but when my back was turned, it started up again. I just kept at it, and eventually it stopped.

 

[EggzactlyRight]

I've never seen such a young chick be so... lively, let's say.

It'd be difficult for me to take seriously since it's so adorable now (the movements with all that jumping, not the bullying itself), but I can imagine it becoming very bothersome and more dangerous later on.

Perhaps you could observe them and correct the chick? Adults lightly peck the top of the head if they want to correct other birds, so maybe carefully tapping the head of the chick with a finger could work. I assume it would take quite some time and lots of tapping but the sooner you start the better.​

 

[FefesOwner]

I've never seen such a young chick be so... lively, let's say.

It'd be difficult for me to take seriously since it's so adorable now (the movements with all that jumping, not the bullying itself), but I can imagine it becoming very bothersome and more dangerous later on.

Perhaps you could observe them and correct the chick? Adults lightly peck the top of the head if they want to correct other birds, so maybe carefully tapping the head of the chick with a finger could work. I assume it would take quite some time and lots of tapping but the sooner you start the better.​

I know, I had to stop filming as I had to laugh out loud! I didn't correct the baviour as I was laughing. The bully jumps like that every morning.

Yes I have been poking it on the head after it pecks the other one but it won't stop until I take the innocent one out. I'll keep at it.

 

[FefesOwner]

When I had a toe-picker once, I kept twapping it with my finger when it did that. I'd stand there for 15-20 minutes and it would stop while I was there, but when my back was turned, it started up again. I just kept at it, and eventually it stopped.

Good advice, I'm getting here. I do poke it back on it's head to see how it likes it. But then it jumps around.

 

[FefesOwner]

Yes, it is a habit you want to discourage .. although .. that jumping - it's hilarious

I had to stop filming as I had to laugh out loud. It loves jumping around in the morning, hence why I though it might be a rooster.

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

I would consider adding some enrichment to their enclosure or getting them outside soon. Sometimes two chicks alone is fine and dandy but if they have nothing else to focus on and nowhere to hide I wonder if Bouncy Britches is tormenting her friend just for the entertainment value. I could be wrong I’m just speculating based on the video. I don’t spend time disciplining chicks because that takes time I don’t have and I am not a chicken.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Thank you BlindLemonChicken

Judging by the comb it's a cockerel. At this stage, this behavior is typically play, & not aggression. True aggression is expressed differently.
He'll grow out of this. Just think of him as the annoying kid.

 

[zippychippie]

I have a 3 month old Jersey Giant cockerel I named Black Bart. I candled him in the egg, and he was doing aggressive martial arts a week before hatching. He started pecking me at 6 days of age, and has never stopped. He pecks at everything and everybody, and attacks any other chickens he can get near. (This is not a bird that should ever reproduce.) He will be going into the processor with the meat birds next month. Too bad, because he is a beauty.

 

[FefesOwner]

Aww sorry to hear that. My one is quite a beauty too. He's a millifleur belgian d'uccle.

Well, Chicky has tamed down quite a bit. I used my mother's old method when she had a nasty rooster many many years ago, spray him with water! So when Chicky bit Fefe on her head, I sprayed him on his butt to make him jump. I have the spray bottle nearby so that must make him remember what happened when he bit.