- Mar 5, 2011
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Has anyone else observed this strange behavior?
One of my girls is a fraidy-cat and shrieks and runs whenever I need to pick her up. Fair enough, but when she does this the other birds attack her! They never do this otherwise. Before I was able to remove my frightened bird from the run, my Welsummer had locked on tight to her head feathers and seemed to be trying to tug them out; and then when I placed her into her coop and she started freaking out again, my EE attacked her.
What is that about? Are they taking advantage of her fear to assert their dominance? Telling her not to be an idiot?
One of my girls is a fraidy-cat and shrieks and runs whenever I need to pick her up. Fair enough, but when she does this the other birds attack her! They never do this otherwise. Before I was able to remove my frightened bird from the run, my Welsummer had locked on tight to her head feathers and seemed to be trying to tug them out; and then when I placed her into her coop and she started freaking out again, my EE attacked her.
What is that about? Are they taking advantage of her fear to assert their dominance? Telling her not to be an idiot?
