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Granny23
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My 4 hens were adults when I got Lacie at 9 weeks. They freeranged in my backyard then. I worked with her to" leave it" and my bossy barred rock pecked her. For months she followed them..herding them on ocassion then she pinned my buff Orpington Twinkie and just held her down. Didnt hurt her but may have if I hadn't stopped her. Way later she pinned one of the RIRs and was slobbering all over her and I said THAT'S IT! Poor Twinkie quit laying after her ordeal. So I built an extention on their coop and added the big enclosure. Now I don't have to worry about the girls getting hurt. I know they miss free-range life but they're safe.This is completely familiar to me. I thought it was more about the particular chickens behavior though, not color. At least it's how it is at my place. My Golden and my Leonberger will fixate on just one chicken and I notice that is the chicken who is more aggressive, less afraid of them. I have chickens who are sweet and don't act very afraid around them but they leave those alone. It's been RIR's and a pretty self confident Olive egger that gave my dog a hard peck during a meet and greet. I just constantly train my dogs to "be nice" to all of the chickens but it's definitely constant with the one they are not happy with and when they see her at the fence they charge the fence.