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cmccullough1390 said:
That's great boys are total sweethearts Jon is the sweetest chicken I have he's my little love bug. It's hard to say how well they'll stay like that as they mature but they should at least retain some of it
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I'm hoping so. At one point I was considering getting rid of all the hens and just keeping my roosters and bantams lol. Huby wants the eggs though lol. So now we are just downsizing on the standards lol
 
Spyruby said:
my girls just started laying beautiful green and blue eggs! but i have one question.... how do i stop egg eating because sometimes they tend to lay eggs at nigh and go out to the coop let them out and there is a yoke in the coop. any answers on how to stop egg eating?
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Find out who's the culprit and re-home her or have her processed for the table. Egg eating is contagious.
 
Amelia Egghart said:
Help! I finally observed this happening, start to finish:

My EE holds out her head while my barred rock is preening, then the BR turns to her and picks out her beard and muff feathers! The EE rotates her head almost as if to give the BR easier access! The parts that are fully picked out are red because the BR nibbles at the exposed skin as well.

What?!

Then they both go back to preening.

Is my EE seriously allowing this? Is she lacking confidence? Oh, I don't have beautiful red wattles like you, dear BR, please help remove this heinous face fluff so I may be more like you!

The poor thing! Not what I imagined feather picking would be like. I thought it'd be aggressive. This is like psychological warfare instead.

Should I get spectacles for the BR? Put pick no more on what's left of the EE's face? Ideas?

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My Blue Wheaten Ameraucana was a timid bird and the Buff Leghorn we had was going around the flock eating the Silkies and the Ameraucana's beards/crests out of dominant behavior. EEs and Ameraucanas are fairly shy or timid birds and if a dominant hen displays by pulling out the soft beard/muff feathers the timid will let it happen. I re-homed my Buff Leghorn because I don't tolerate abusive behavior but then that's me. I had tried Bitter Apple on feathers in the past to keep a feather-picking Marans from chewing on the Silkies' soft feathers but nothing worked. Feather-picking and/or egg eaters are almost impossible to break and I have no patience for that kind of behavior and re-home them. You can try Peeper spectacles but after a while the hen gets good at maneuvering around the Peepers. It's your choice what you want to do.
 
Sylvester017 said:
My Blue Wheaten Ameraucana was a timid bird and the Buff Leghorn we had was going around the flock eating the Silkies and the Ameraucana's beards/crests out of dominant behavior.  EEs and Ameraucanas are fairly shy or timid birds and if a dominant hen displays by pulling out the soft beard/muff feathers the timid will let it happen.  I re-homed my Buff Leghorn because I don't tolerate abusive behavior but then that's me.  I had tried Bitter Apple on feathers in the past to keep a feather-picking Marans from chewing on the Silkies' soft feathers but nothing worked.  Feather-picking and/or egg eaters are almost impossible to break and I have no patience for that kind of behavior and re-home them.  You can try Peeper spectacles but after a while the hen gets good at maneuvering around the Peepers.  It's your choice what you want to do.
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I'm first going to try the theory that it's preening gone wrong, because she cleans the other EEs beard the same way and it's fine. Gilligan must be getting into sticky fruit somewhere because her face is always a sticky muddy mess. Keeping her face clean and finding and eliminating the wild grapes/berries she's eating will hopefully help.

But yeah, I'm wary but don't want to jump to drastic measures if it's not needed. Thank you!
 
jenniferlamar70 said:
I'm hoping so. At one point I was considering getting rid of all the hens and just keeping my roosters and bantams lol. Hubby wants the eggs though lol. So now we are just downsizing on the standards lol
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Definitely. There is nothing that can beat a bunch of alarm clocks all competing with each other for dominance!
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Now that is one nicely feathered specimen.
 
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