coop unrest

They are sorting out the pecking order. Generally, this will be over in a couple of days. This will happen anytime there is a change in the population of the flock.

Chris

 

Try and stay out of it. I know it's easier said than done because I'm dealing with the same thing. My flock has always gotten along so well, like perfectly, and all of a sudden as soon as some of them began squatting the chicken poo hit the fan and it's been drama drama drama. I've seen one bite and pull on my favorite chickens face, drew blood. I've watched three on the roost and the outer two viciously pecked and terrified the middle one, she crammed herself as close to the roost as possible and tensed into a solid mass, I ended up popped on of the birds on the beak for that one and removed the scared one from the roost. I shouldn't have but it was too much. She had always been the "mean one" and one of my least favorite birds but she looked so scared. Remembering that one actually makes me tear up.

It's hard, they are pets and I'd never allow my dogs or cats to treat each other that way.

 

I saw one of my hens jump on another hen's back and pull on her comb while the bottom one ran in circles. I was yelling and quite distressed at the time but in retrospect, it was kind of funny

 

How old are they?

 

There is nothing unusual about white Easter Eggers. Easter Eggers can be any color or pattern.

There could be a whole lot of different reasons why they are not laying, age and possibly molting being two of them. Over the internet we really can’t tell without a lot more information, and even then it would probably be just a guess.