Do they outgrow eyeball pecking?

[NNations]

This little BS still has a thing with eye balls. He is still separated from the 3 older ones with wire for their safety. I let him out to mingle and just when I think he’s not going to peck an eye he does. Ugh! Will this one ever learn that eyeballs are attached?!?! I hate seeing him separated but I also don’t want him to blind one of the others. Anyone experience this?

 

[Flockincrazy]

I had a turkey that did that we started spraying her with a water bottle and she hated it every time she saw a spray bottle she would stop and you could just see her wheels spinning and would walk away so I ended up hanging a spray bottle that stopped working on their coop right in her eye line so she would see it and she stopped using everyone's eyes for eye beak coordination practices

 

[KsKingBee]

Try giving them something else shiny to peck at.

 

[NNations]

I had a turkey that did that we started spraying her with a water bottle and she hated it every time she saw a spray bottle she would stop and you could just see her wheels spinning and would walk away so I ended up hanging a spray bottle that stopped working on their coop right in her eye line so she would see it and she stopped using everyone's eyes for eye beak coordination practices

When I let him out to mingle I try to tap the back of his neck and say no firmly. The problem is I’m not out there all day I guess. He is getting better but still pecks when all of the sudden they are eye to eye.

 

[NNations]

Try giving them something else shiny to peck at.

I had marbles in the water but I just took them out bc I thought maybe it looked to much like an eye. He doesn’t run over to them to peck their eyes. It’s more of when they are eye to eye when eating or perching that he’ll notice the eye and peck it.