Oh don’t worry about Marty she came her just before Mr P, and when he showed up she put her stamp on him!
I didn’t have the heart to tell the woman she was one of my best layersI've become suspect over the years of rehomed birds. Also, we rehomed a good laying hen that didn't lay well for the new owner! WTH?! is up w/ these hens? Like people they have minds of their own
My silkies will be coming four next Spring, they have all really slowed down laying, and going broody.I've become suspect over the years of rehomed birds. Also, we rehomed a good laying hen that didn't lay well for the new owner! WTH?! is up w/ these hens? Like people they have minds of their own
I didn’t have the heart to tell the woman she was one of my best layers
Last year I tried everything to get Marty to up broody, I even tucked my phone playing chicks chirping under her while she was laying an egg.
Nope! Oh well. She sure has made herself at home a fit in well
Teehee!Oh don’t worry about Marty she came her just before Mr P, and when he showed up she put her stamp on him!
Heaven help ANYONE who tries to bother her man!
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ride to say the least but fun!
Yup I have a few like that. Whisker’s sister Misty, has been going around BOK BOK BWAK, all summer. And a couple of the others also. Tippy and a couple of the Azurs even plucked their breast feathers!
I find I don’t really have a linear hierarchy of who’s the boss. Penelope was queen and is still high up but I have found she mostly ignores everyone now. She is very elderly.Teehee!
It must be a chicken thing. Anytime we've added a bird to our existing flock the new bird (whether a hen or younger pullet) has tried taking over bullying or trying to become alpha ~ testing their position in an existing flock to bully first before an existing bird bullies her? exert power to avoid getting attacked? stress in a new environment? jealousy? dare we attach humanism to hens? Even the Silkie babies we recently added attempted challenging the adult hens. We threw up our hands to it's just a chicken thing & they sort it out!
6 Fluffies ~ butts are all we ever see!
We never had a roo to keep the peace between squabbling hormonal hens but one hen always took over an alpha role in a group. Our friends only had hens & their alpha hen would crow!
When we added 3 new Dom juveniles in 2017 they immediately acknowledged older Silkie Violet as alpha & chose out of the blue to protect her from a bigger 7.5-lb bully hen Char. Reminds me how your Marty chose to come to Mr P's defense. Or maybe distress screams automatically stirs heroism within a bird or two in the flock to protect
If Violet screamed from one of Char's attacks the 3 Doms would put Char in her place! It was the first time we ever had birds that protected one another ~ so obviously we became partial to Dominiques for their heroism when called for as well as their calm temperaments & people-friendly outgoing unafraid demeanor.
In 13+ yrs every year seemed to change our backyard flock dynamics as birds were added, or died, or got rehomed. It's been an interesting roller coaster/circus
those beautiful feathered legs are just too wonderful. Even the barred pattern is lovely 
but I must face the fact I will have to deal with him, same as Rosario. 
Very sorry you are having so much trouble.I find I don’t really have a linear hierarchy of who’s the boss. Penelope was queen and is still high up but I have found she mostly ignores everyone now. She is very elderly.
With the rest of the hens, it’s funny how one hen will boss someone of them but them in turn get bosses by someone else. And so forth. It’s rather circular. But the big ‘boss mares’ would be Raven, Penelope, Blanche and Fluffy one of my Silkies.
But again just because Raven lords it over some doesn’t mean she in turn isn’t bossed around. It’s very hilarious watching them all!
The Roos - Bert and Mr P do not get harassed by the hens, but the younger cockerels do (Rosario, Mr Little Chicken) - Clyde the silkie steers clear of the big birds and will run and hide with me if he is being picked on.
Shirley/Shorty has not crowed yet so not sure what to think there. I keep hoping he’s a she
Not sure what to do with Bert; I have no takers for him - just a couple creeps who want ‘males’ - likley for cock fighting. I told them take a hike. If he is to go to freezer camp I will do it myself and bury him with Larry. He won’t be sent someplace we’re some one abuses him
Tis what it tis…. Have to take the good with the bad.Very sorry you are having so much trouble.
