Are Easter Eggers always terrorists?

[lazy gardener]

Any red feathers showing up on shoulders or breast?

 

[Ruralhideaway]

Would you see them here? Reddish maybe?

 

[andreanar]

Nothing showing cockerel to me yet, still too young.

 

[lazy gardener]

Nope. Don't see any red feather patches.

 

[Ruralhideaway]

She'll be interesting to watch grow. I do think I'm going to move her though, she's making the others unfriendly and scared all the time.

 

[JurassicBawk]

I bought 4 sexed Easter Eggers, and ended up with a male anyway. It took over 3 months for me to tell, because he kept looking female, but he was the most friendly/outgoing and my favorite of them of course.
My 4 EEs are friendly, scream at me for attention when I'm in the yard if I'm not playing with them, very occasionally poke each other if there's a treat involved but never fight, and are scared of my dwarf and regular size bantams. I think it just depends on the chicken. I don't see any red on yours yet, but keep an eye on the comb because it looks a little wide, and that was the only giveaway on mine until he started crowing and I knew for sure.

 

[Ridgerunner]

For some reason people seem to think that EE's are a breed with breed traits and breed tendencies. They are not, they are just chickens where the hens might or might not lay blue or green eggs. Some hatcheries put their EE flocks together before the Ameraucana breed was even created, others were put together more recently. There is no common denominator between different hatchery EE flocks. Each individual hatchery EE flock may have certain tendencies but that doesn't mean another flock will share any of those.

Some breeds do have tendencies, like Orpington tend to go broody more often that Rhode Island Reds. But I find the differences in individuals of the same breed are often stronger than the behavioral similarities. Another point is that you have to have enough individuals of a breed for averages to mean anything. Two is not enough.

I can't say I've ever had a chick act that way but I've found that behaviors can change if you lock that chick up for a day or two. It needs to be able to eat and drink but not interact with the others. A fence in the brooder might work or maybe make a basket out of hardware cloth and set it over that chick. Or come up with another way. Will this work? Maybe, maybe not. But it's how I'd approach it.

Good luck!

 

[PupsNHens]

I have a mixed group of chicks that are about 1 1/2 weeks old. I've noticed this type of behavior with them too, though not constant and not a specific chick. I figured that I never saw it before because I didn't have as many chicks and/or as much room, but that's just a guess. I refer to it as chick bowling There will be a group of 4 or more chicks gathered together at one end of the brooder, and a chick at the other end will run straight at them and through them without slowing down. Now that they have more wing feathers, they will sometimes jump into the group. They haven't been doing it as often the last couple of days and they seem to spread out a little more now. I was wondering how common it was...

 

[Ruralhideaway]

Chick bowling!!! Yes exactly that's a perfect description. Maybe it seems so disruptive in this group because those cochins are so lazy, laying down more than they stand up. Then this little fiend barrels into all that peace and quiet and they all freak out.

 

[PupsNHens]

If there is a specific place they like to lay down, maybe you can create some sort of barrier, that would prevent the other chick from building speed but still leave an escape route. Mine tend to lay under or right near the heat plate, so if anyone were to try to bowl into them, they would end up running into the heat plate or brooder wall. I generally see it when the chicks are up and moving around, but may be gathered together to scratch and peck at the same area. Just a thought.