I have a 3 week old chick that pecked a bleeding hole in its brooder mate last week.
I've separated her so she can see her friends but not peck them. The good news is that the injured chick is doing really well. The bad news is that the aggressor just seems to have a bad pecking habit.
When I can supervise, I put her in with her friends and she is good for a while, but then inevitably she starts pecking the other chicks and trying to pull out their feathers.
I'm just curious if anyone has successfully rehabbed a chick with this issue?
My first hope is that she grows out of it. Failing that, she is going out a bit earlier than her brooder mates to the coop and maybe the big girls can boss it out of her. If that doesn't work, I was thinking of trying the pinless peeper things:
http://www.eggcartons.com/Pinless-Peepers/productinfo/PINLESS-P/
And if for some reason that fails us, I have a friend who offered to take her to live in her yard in the city. Unfortunately she would be an only chicken in that case and I know that is generally not a good thing, but if the alternative is the stew pot...
I've separated her so she can see her friends but not peck them. The good news is that the injured chick is doing really well. The bad news is that the aggressor just seems to have a bad pecking habit.
When I can supervise, I put her in with her friends and she is good for a while, but then inevitably she starts pecking the other chicks and trying to pull out their feathers.
I'm just curious if anyone has successfully rehabbed a chick with this issue?
My first hope is that she grows out of it. Failing that, she is going out a bit earlier than her brooder mates to the coop and maybe the big girls can boss it out of her. If that doesn't work, I was thinking of trying the pinless peeper things:
http://www.eggcartons.com/Pinless-Peepers/productinfo/PINLESS-P/
And if for some reason that fails us, I have a friend who offered to take her to live in her yard in the city. Unfortunately she would be an only chicken in that case and I know that is generally not a good thing, but if the alternative is the stew pot...