Backyard Bulllies!!

[Scorpiochick]

Ok BYC longtimers I need your advice. We have been letting out our little over 6 week chicks in the backyard to have playtime a couple hours in the evening. Our 5 adults are just pretty much ignoring them. Well these lil teenagers are acting crazy. We got our 10pack ALL the same day. they were all supposed to be 1-3 days old. Cool, they spent several weeks in the house and are buddies. Well now things are all getting shifty. I got chicks chest bumping and hopping around like a challenge I guess. Is this a male thing? We are only supposed to have 2 roosters, but like everyone is kinda doing it to everyone. Are they arranging the ranks? Anything I can do? Still pretty new to this. Thanks so much

 

[subhanalah]

This one was the champion chest bumper and the smallest of the chicks.

And this is what she laid.

 

[iwiw60]

Ok BYC longtimers I need your advice. We have been letting out our little over 6 week chicks in the backyard to have playtime a couple hours in the evening. Our 5 adults are just pretty much ignoring them. Well these lil teenagers are acting crazy. We got our 10pack ALL the same day. they were all supposed to be 1-3 days old. Cool, they spent several weeks in the house and are buddies. Well now things are all getting shifty. I got chicks chest bumping and hopping around like a challenge I guess. Is this a male thing? We are only supposed to have 2 roosters, but like everyone is kinda doing it to everyone. Are they arranging the ranks? Anything I can do? Still pretty new to this. Thanks so much

At that age they are most likely "setting the pecking order", but you may very well have one or more roos also. Without pics it's really hard to tell.

 

[missnu01]

Ok BYC longtimers I need your advice. We have been letting out our little over 6 week chicks in the backyard to have playtime a couple hours in the evening. Our 5 adults are just pretty much ignoring them. Well these lil teenagers are acting crazy. We got our 10pack ALL the same day. they were all supposed to be 1-3 days old. Cool, they spent several weeks in the house and are buddies. Well now things are all getting shifty. I got chicks chest bumping and hopping around like a challenge I guess. Is this a male thing? We are only supposed to have 2 roosters, but like everyone is kinda doing it to everyone. Are they arranging the ranks? Anything I can do? Still pretty new to this. Thanks so much

they all do that around the age they All get feathered in. Males females, best friends. .. is a crazy whose on top free for alk

 

[aart]

Both genders chest bump, peck and chase.

 

[Scorpiochick]

So thankful for all your replies, as you can imagine as a first timer I was like CRAP are there 10 roosters lol