Help! I have a mean chicken :(

[MROO]

Thank you all for your input; i put the one in “chicken jail/timeout” and immediately saw a difference. The three others are now dust bathing together and eating all the things as they free range together ...fingers crossed that this continues and that timeout works for this little gal!!

Give them at least two weeks to sort out their new pecking order and settle into their new roles. Once they are established and settled, the old bully won't have as much power and will have to make her own way into the order. They'll readjust, and she'll likely settle somewhere in the middle.
Don't rush it! Give them the full two weeks, then sit back and watch it all unfold. And please, keep us posted!

 

[krowl]

Give them at least two weeks to sort out their new pecking order and settle into their new roles. Once they are established and settled, the old bully won't have as much power and will have to make her own way into the order. They'll readjust, and she'll likely settle somewhere in the middle.
Don't rush it! Give them the full two weeks, then sit back and watch it all unfold. And please, keep us posted!

Will definitely give the full two weeks!! Funny-ish thing though...the one that is currently in "chicken jail" may have just started to try crowing this morning...Is it possible, if it's really a rooster, would that have started to cause these same issues?

 

[aart]

may have just started to try crowing this morning...Is it possible, if it's really a rooster, would that have started to cause these same issues?

Absolutely!
Post a pic of bird...with clear shot of comb.

 

[krowl]

 

[krowl]

Absolutely!
Post a pic of bird...with clear shot of comb.

The pics I posted were about 3 weeks ago...so he or she is quite bigger now..I had a feeling this one could be a rooster...but have been on the fence..until this morning

 

[aart]

they were March babies

The pics I posted were about 3 weeks ago

So 10-12 weeks, with that much red he's gonna be crowing soon.

 

[krowl]

So 10-12 weeks, with that much red he's gonna be crowing soon.

Ugh i knew it

 

[MROO]

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Break out the blue banners, 'cause you gotta BOY!

 

[Folly's place]

Cockerel, for sure.
Mary

 

[krowl]

I cant have roosters so unfortunately I will have to return him to where I got him from, so unfortunate since he is such a beauty and so friendly with me.