Mean Baby Chick

[KIDDSBANTAMS]

They are called pullets, that is a female chicken that has not started laying and a male is a cockerel until it becomes a rooster. So the correct term is pullets and cockerel when referring to sex and then they are hens and roosters. On the mean baby chick, I had to seperate one of mine and put it in with my 3-4 week ols and she is doing fine now.

 

[pixiedouglas]

All my chicks were sold to me as "pullets". Isn't it just easier to refer to them that way than to say "sexed as female chick"? What a mouthful!

I think it's pecking order. I have some chicks that act like that. Infact all of them peck on the Faverolle even though she's easily twice as big as them and she just lays there and then lets them sleep on her. I've seen some of them pulling each others down out. Hubby caught one of the delawares with a BIG clumb of red down in her mouth peeping a blue streak and running circles in the box while all the rest chased her.

 

[Ravie]

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Wow, what a sassy little Delware! A brat!

 

[galanie]

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[Silkie Sue]

Could you please dig some extra for my 3 week old Polish chicks..... they are drivin mama Silkie bananas..... our grass is still frozen

 

[no1hilbily]

got to love when people are condescending when you go to a feed store they call the hen chicks pullets so thats what people know them as dont be so rude

 

[Needycowgirl]

I just had to move my biggest one week old out of the small brooder box into the box with the 4 week olds. Everyone is much happier now. I think some just get too big for their britches.

Lucky for her my 4 week olds are really docile and just looked at her like "ok a new one!" I havent had good expediences with RIR's they have always been mean to me

but maybe if you hold her more and get her used to you she will chill out.

GL with your fuzzy babies!

 

[BooBear]

mother o' chicks72 :

well they're still chicks at 3-4 days old, they're pullets when they can be moved outside

Pullet - is a young female chicken that has not reached sexual maturity
Cockeral - is a young male chicken that has not reached sexual maturity

Chicks fall under one or the other based on their sex.

Hen - female chicken that has reached sexual maturity
Cock - male chicken that has reached sexual maturity

In the US the term rooster is also used when describing male chickens.​

 

[Borncountry419]

Ha! I got a RIR pullet chicken from TSC that was just as mean. She picked a huge chunk of skin off of another chicks neck. So I don't believe that was a pecking order thing. Lol. Usually picking is caused by things like bright lights (clear bulbs), crowded conditions, etc., but this thing is just plain nasty.

 

[Ravie]

Mine seems to be doing a little better. My light is red, and I have only have 3 chicks. They have lots of space.

I have been handling her and giving her new things to do. I think it's helping along with getting comfortable in her new home! I've heard RIRs can be nasty, I just didn't know it could start in one so young!