I am not 100% sure, but usually when a pecking order occurs it’s usually because the chickens don’t have enough space in their coop and get uncomfortable. Maybe it’s different because you had a broody who pecked.I lost a bird this year becuase she got pecked really bad in the head. I had to move her into the brooding pen until she healed but she was kind of off, mentally, even after she healed. Then one day I found her in the next box with my mean brooding hen (who had raised her). I thought it was odd that she would be in there because my brooding hen is so mean....well, she was dead. My brooding hen pecked her to death.
Do you think she tried to stay in the nest box becuase the brooding hen was her surrogate mom as a chick? It was really sad. She was one of my own chicks that Big Boy fathered before he went to go live with Robin. Boooo
I know. They will be added after-the-fact due to putting the walls up by myself. I did the first section (10') with the doubled up header, like you are supposed to, but I could barely get it in place. So now, I make a box for the window and secure it with hurricane clips. Makes it quite a bit lighter. The headers will go in to prevent sag. It's a goofy way to do things but I have to find work-arounds, working by myself.
Nah, some hens are just bio tches.... and that would be the one I would cull.
I went down there yesterday to address the issue and move out the rest of the stuff in the house. Ordinance officer was supposed to be there today. He never showed up. I was so looking forward to a confrontation. I'm still talking with the attorney this week.
Total abuse of power.
Probably just as well he wasn't there...let the lawyer take care of it.
