Bully Chick

[Keet]

I have 4 four day old Ameracauna chicks I got from the feed store. Two days ago, I noticed they were picking on each others eye lids, so I did some quick separation to try to stem it. The injured chicks are all doing very well.

I've singled out the culprit. I put everyone together and within 1 minute, Bully had already attacked 2 chicks and was zeroing in on the 3rd.

Bully is now living by herself indefinitely, unless I can figured out how to solve this.

I have tried:

Putting them outside in a huge 8x16 ft pen with lots of distractions, no luck.
Bringing them inside and put them under a red light as suggested in my previous post here. Didn't deter Bully at all.

So, have any of you ever had this issue, and how did you solve it?

 

[sune42]

If the red light didn't work, I have no idea. Hopefully someone else will. Good luck.

 

[Backyard_Chicken_rancher]

Sometimes you just got to allow the bully to be the bully cause it sounds to me liek she is taking charge she is the Dom hen so she is doing the pecking order but that is just IMHO.....maybe someone will have a better answer for you.

 

[debilorrah]

Is the bully drawing blood?

 

[Keet]

NO blood yet, but only because I have stepped in and removed the bully within minutes each time. The other chicks eye lids were already red and swolen, and would have been bleeding very soon.

 

[Keet]

Anything guys?

 

[Chicky Tocks]

I've only had this happen once and I completely separated the bully to it's own brooder box. Yeah, it peeped and cried, but oh well! I left it separated for about 2.5 days and when I put him (yep, little boog turned out to be a nasty little roo that I've since named Beelzebubba) back with the rest of the chicks, he was no longer a bully chick. Now he's a big bully cockeral that I'm about to invite to dinner.