Since both of my coops are close together now it's become my habit to call both flocks together in the evening to share some scratch grains. I love to watch the interactions between the flocks.
I have a little cockerel named Dyson running around. The little twerp is suffering from a bad case of testosterone poisoning right now and he basically goes after anything with feathers that moves.
The only consolation thus far has been that at least Dyson is sticking with his own flock and not bothering my brahma girls.
I'm not sure what started it, but while the chooks were all together yesterday I turned around to see Dyson and my one and only bantam brahma hen Miss Maggie going beak to beak, toe to toe. About the same size so evenly matched, both Maggie and Dyson had their hackle feathers flared and were throwing some kung fu kicks. Maggie was holding her own and since I think it's important for the older hens to teach the young roos some manners, I left them alone for a few minutes. I was just about to walk over and break it up when...
Here comes two of my LF brahma girls, Jezebel and Snowy. I'm not sure how much Snowy weighs, but Jezzie is slightly over 8 lbs.; easily twice as big as little Dyson. Snowy shoved Maggie out of the way, then both Snowy and Jezzie crouched down, flared their hackles and took Dyson on. The poor little guy got his tailfeathers handed to him before he took off.
Yep, the big hens are teaching the young whippersnappers some manners alright.
I have a little cockerel named Dyson running around. The little twerp is suffering from a bad case of testosterone poisoning right now and he basically goes after anything with feathers that moves.
I'm not sure what started it, but while the chooks were all together yesterday I turned around to see Dyson and my one and only bantam brahma hen Miss Maggie going beak to beak, toe to toe. About the same size so evenly matched, both Maggie and Dyson had their hackle feathers flared and were throwing some kung fu kicks. Maggie was holding her own and since I think it's important for the older hens to teach the young roos some manners, I left them alone for a few minutes. I was just about to walk over and break it up when...
Here comes two of my LF brahma girls, Jezebel and Snowy. I'm not sure how much Snowy weighs, but Jezzie is slightly over 8 lbs.; easily twice as big as little Dyson. Snowy shoved Maggie out of the way, then both Snowy and Jezzie crouched down, flared their hackles and took Dyson on. The poor little guy got his tailfeathers handed to him before he took off.
Yep, the big hens are teaching the young whippersnappers some manners alright.
