Help! Aggressive hen!

[Cate_coop]

Can you take a picture of the saddle feathers? In the other pictures the saddle feathers look male but its hard to tell with the angle.

Are these a little better?

 

[Painted Calls]

Pretty positive it's just a pullet with big wattles.

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

Those are some huge wattles for a 12 week old pullet. Comb is fairly small and pale though. You may just have a bossy pullet.

What do you think @Rhodebar Lover?

Looks like a pullet! Hatchery RIR are known for often having poor temperaments and maturing rather quickly! I've heard many stories of nasty Production Reds

 

[Cate_coop]

Can you take a picture of the saddle feathers? In the other pictures the saddle feathers look male but its hard to tell with the angle.

Is this a better angle?

 

[aart]

When does she bite you?
Have you been hand feeding?

Have had this happen several times, mostly with hand fed chicks often as they come of age and get spunky. It's pretty easily curbed with calm and deliberate determination.

I peck them back, on the head or anywhere I can reach, with the tips of thumb and first 2 fingers, as hard and fast as many times as I can before they get away. Well, not hard enough to hurt them, just startle them and let them you mean business. That's what another chicken would do, so they understand that kind of communication.

If that doesn't work after a couple applications, I hold them down to the ground with my hand on their back until they submit....again firmly enough to get the job done but not hurt them....add a few finger pecks and/or tug on the feathers on the back of their neck.

 

[HeatherKellyB]

I've never known overo to be incorrect

 

[Painted Calls]

I've never known overo to be incorrect

Lol! Thank you Heather. ❤

 

[Cate_coop]

I will try "chicken jail" and see if that calms her down a bit and stop hand feeding them. Thank you everyone so much! I feel a little more reassured that I just have a bossy pullet and not a cockerel on my hands

 

[cherrynberry]

I will try "chicken jail" and see if that calms her down a bit and stop hand feeding them. Thank you everyone so much! I feel a little more reassured that I just have a bossy pullet and not a cockerel on my hands

Yep, pullet. I will try what @aart recommended.