My Baby Chicks Are Trying To Kill Eachother!

[RaceGirl]

I have 3 baby chicks (don't know the breed)
We got them about 3 weeks ago when they were still"palm-sized".
Hubby built them a nice little 5 x 10 fully enclosed coop.
They have been so sweet and got along together so well.
This am I went out to visit them and discovered that they must have had a falling out last night. They are all angrily attacking and pecking eachother . They are missing feathers and their heads are bleeding. WHAT do I do? I have never seen baby chicks do this. I know adult roosters will do this, but babies?

 

[Little Ameraucana Mom]

I've never had chicks actually draw blood at such a young age. Make sure you put medicine on them. Can you separate them for a little while?

 

[Little Ameraucana Mom]

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From Indiana

 

[RaceGirl]

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Me either! My daughter is going to be horrified when she wakes up and finds out. I have gone out there and "shooed" them from eachother, but I don't really have a place to seperate them all. They are too big for the box they came home in(they can jump out now) and I can't let them roam the yard because my neighbors have cats that "stalk" the coop as it is. They are still really small (i can hold them in one hand)
This is just the craziest thing I've ever seen with baby chicks.
Is it possible that they just hit chick puberty and realized they are all roosters? (I'm still not sure what they are)
Or are they just Pollo Loco?

 

[Little Ameraucana Mom]

I have 30 chicks in a pen (3) pens and none of them have ever drawn blood. Maybe someone else will have a better suggestion. What breed are they??

 

[Judy]

My feeling is that they need to get outdoors. Wee you planning on building a run?

 

[RaceGirl]

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I'm not sure. One of them is yellowish white, one is chocolate brown and one is black. I got "suckered" into getting them for my daughter. The lady I got them from has what seems like a gazillion chickens, but she said she doesn't know what they are.

 

[RaceGirl]

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They are outdoors. When I said fully enclosed coop, I meant my hubby built a top on it with chicken wire so that "critters" can't get to them. The only part of their coop that doesn't have full daylight is where we built their boxes.

 

[Judy]

What is their feed?

 

[RaceGirl]

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DUMOR Chick starter/grower 100%. It's what the man at Tractor Supply recommended.