Help! My chicken is biting me!

[Lazy Farmer]

I have only broody girls peck me. I keep a long sleeve flannel shirt handy. They can peck all they want. I'm gunna get to those eggs..

 

[haasle]

Looks like a female to me.....how old?
Blood on her beak from biting you?!

They are 20 weeks old - and no, that's not blood, but these obnoxious berries that fall from a tree in my yard. The chickens LOVE them! lol

 

[aart]

They are 20 weeks old - and no, that's not blood, but these obnoxious berries that fall from a tree in my yard. The chickens LOVE them! lol

Oh Good!....certainty painted a gruesome picture tho.

Refer back to my post here. Be the Head Hen!!

 

[haasle]

Oh Good!....certainty painted a gruesome picture tho.

Refer back to my post here. Be the Head Hen!!

Thanks so much! Good advice- She actually had a time out in the coop today while her "sisters" got to free range...I'll show her whose boss! lol

 

[FrankHomestead]

Oh Good!....certainty painted a gruesome picture tho.

Refer back to my post here. Be the Head Hen!!

No kidding, that would be nuts. that would be the first time I ever punt a chicken!! LOL

 

[BrandonMcfly]

Oh yea when my pullets we're babies they we're brutal on my moles and freckles! one try pulling a mole OFF!! Owwwwwe

One did that to my arm lol she kept trying to wiggle it off

 

[Chickassan]

You should have said it was blood, you could have had so much fun with that!

They are 20 weeks old - and no, that's not blood, but these obnoxious berries that fall from a tree in my yard. The chickens LOVE them! lol

 

[MageofMist]

Kinda unrelated, but related to the berry part... My silkies look like they come from a horror movies murder scene with their blood-red beaks from eating the blackberries that grow on the yard. Many times I think I see an injury/blood and it turned out they just had blackberry juice on their feathers from all trying to eat the same berry and the juice getting everywhere.

 

[MIchickenlady]

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.

ty for this! I have a 1 y.o. BO who decided to start biting me a couple days ago-do you recommend the peepers?
I'll try pecking back and holding down first! thanks again

 

[aart]

ty for this! I have a 1 y.o. BO who decided to start biting me a couple days ago-do you recommend the peepers?
I'll try pecking back and holding down first! thanks again

I do not....never had a situation extreme enough to consider them