Need advice my largest chick is being a bully

[BlueBaby]

Good luck with your chicks!

 

[Embden Geese]

Your Sulcata Tortoise is so cute

 

[ShannonMarie]

HI everyone! SO i was over reacting about the bullying they are for sure just figuring things out. My two barred rocks are almost the same size as my Buff Orp so thing's are much more even now. They kinda put one another in place however they cannot be without one another for a second which warms my heart! Coop picks to come soon! For now they go outside everyday and think they are SO Big! They are fly a little bit which is adorable! I am enjoying them so much Minus maybe all the poop in their brooder and cleaning it a minimum of twice a day and having to clean their water dish constantly! My Daughter who works nights even cleans it in the middle of the night. They fly-hop in the brooder and the pine shavings get everywhere! They are worth all the poop and mess they make in my kitchen. I hope you are all having as much fun with your Chicken children!!

 

[ChickNanny13]

It's called Chicken Movies/TV. Hubby & I loved sitting out in the patio watching the antics in the backyard when I allowed roaming. Now I keep mine penned due to the neighbors (7) dogs. Yard's fenced but I've seen on climb over to get out on the other side & now with their Greyhound climbing on the rock wall, he reaches to top of the fence So better safe than sorry.

Hubby did build me a great open air enclosure & the girls don't seem to mind. Now & then I put them in the mobile run for grass but only when I'm out there with them.

Chickens are the best STRESS RELIEVERS every!

 

[ShannonMarie]

Your Sulcata Tortoise is so cute

Thank you! We actually have 4 now, we had five. We go two initially for my daughter because she is allergic to Cats and dogs. Then after having them a year We ended up rescuing two more from a unhealthy environment and then on a visit to or Reptile Vet for a sick tortoise with a cold he asked us if we would take another one that was abandoned at his office with severe dog bites to it. The tortoise was doing better after the vet treated him so we couldn't say no. He said he knew we cared for tortoises and gave them a great home so he chose us to care for him. Well we ended up re-homing the one we got from the vet 5 years after we first got him because unfortunately he was trying to mount our other four. He was the same size as our other four but we think he was in a small terrarium for that first year of his life so his size looked like he was a one year old in fact he was more like a 2-3 year old. When we got him he did get big very fast because he had a huge house with a large yard and all he could eat. SO at age 6 when he started mounting our others ,he was actually tormenting them. He would not leave them alone all day! I mean all day, my other four would stop coming out of their burrow and when they did they would hide under the smoker or tables so he could not actually mount them. I felt like this behavior was because he was older and was sexually mature enough to be doing this and had a female around. He was doing what he knew to do but i also felt like it was literally driving him nuts because all he wanted was to mate. So we found a great home for Scuter and he is much happier being a loner tortoise! We check on him and he now has three boys to play with. IN Arizona we have too many Sulcata's and we don't want to add to that problem so we will end up fixing ours. We will have to give a couple to my oldest daughter in California who has an acre so that out backyard will be enough for two when they are bigger. They are easy and amazing animals! They are so smart and actually come to their names and they knock on my sliding glass backdoor because they want to come in and explore and we let them.They also go right to the kitchen cause they know they will get treats. We love them so much! I will definitely be very careful with my chicken and the Tortoises interacting until the chickens are big. Once they are bigger They will actually scare the tortoises but for now the tortoises just want to know what they are and so we let them sniff and they usually just walk away to go about eating the grass. Sorry i am not usually such a rambler!!!

 

[ShannonMarie]

It's called Chicken Movies/TV. Hubby & I loved sitting out in the patio watching the antics in the backyard when I allowed roaming. Now I keep mine penned due to the neighbors (7) dogs. Yard's fenced but I've seen on climb over to get out on the other side & now with their Greyhound climbing on the rock wall, he reaches to top of the fence So better safe than sorry.

Hubby did build me a great open air enclosure & the girls don't seem to mind. Now & then I put them in the mobile run for grass but only when I'm out there with them.

Chickens are the best STRESS RELIEVERS every!

You are 100 percent right they are stress relievers and it is like a chicken movie!! I love that. We don't have dogs but they will be in a coop with attached run and it will be so that nothing can get into it like a cat. That is my biggest worry...
I would be worried about the dogs too!

 

[Embden Geese]

Thank you! We actually have 4 now, we had five. We go two initially for my daughter because she is allergic to Cats and dogs. Then after having them a year We ended up rescuing two more from a unhealthy environment and then on a visit to or Reptile Vet for a sick tortoise with a cold he asked us if we would take another one that was abandoned at his office with severe dog bites to it. The tortoise was doing better after the vet treated him so we couldn't say no. He said he knew we cared for tortoises and gave them a great home so he chose us to care for him. Well we ended up re-homing the one we got from the vet 5 years after we first got him because unfortunately he was trying to mount our other four. He was the same size as our other four but we think he was in a small terrarium for that first year of his life so his size looked like he was a one year old in fact he was more like a 2-3 year old. When we got him he did get big very fast because he had a huge house with a large yard and all he could eat. SO at age 6 when he started mounting our others ,he was actually tormenting them. He would not leave them alone all day! I mean all day, my other four would stop coming out of their burrow and when they did they would hide under the smoker or tables so he could not actually mount them. I felt like this behavior was because he was older and was sexually mature enough to be doing this and had a female around. He was doing what he knew to do but i also felt like it was literally driving him nuts because all he wanted was to mate. So we found a great home for Scuter and he is much happier being a loner tortoise! We check on him and he now has three boys to play with. IN Arizona we have too many Sulcata's and we don't want to add to that problem so we will end up fixing ours. We will have to give a couple to my oldest daughter in California who has an acre so that out backyard will be enough for two when they are bigger. They are easy and amazing animals! They are so smart and actually come to their names and they knock on my sliding glass backdoor because they want to come in and explore and we let them.They also go right to the kitchen cause they know they will get treats. We love them so much! I will definitely be very careful with my chicken and the Tortoises interacting until the chickens are big. Once they are bigger They will actually scare the tortoises but for now the tortoises just want to know what they are and so we let them sniff and they usually just walk away to go about eating the grass. Sorry i am not usually such a rambler!!!

My daughter loves tortoises too she has a horsefield (Russian) next to her bed but she has always loved sulcatas she said "I know they are the biggest land tortoise in the world but I will give him my bedroom with a reptile radiator" that was the funniest thing I've ever heard her say.

 

[ShannonMarie]

My daughter loves tortoises too she has a horsefield (Russian) next to her bed but she has always loved sulcatas she said "I know they are the biggest land tortoise in the world but I will give him my bedroom with a reptile radiator" that was the funniest thing I've ever heard her say.

Awe so cute!!! Well at least she has one now that wont grow up to be HUGE!! Russians are beautiful!! Tell her when she gets to be like 20 something so by the time she is out on her own with a yard she can take it with her. My Daughter swears she will never marry or have children! Also never leave her Mom and Dad ... she is only 11 so we will see...

 

[Embden Geese]

Your tortoises are so LUCKY that they have found you. Some People just buy them thinking they stay small and cute but don't realise the commitment they are making I've seen people that keep them in terrible conditions its unbelievable they deserve to live a long happy life.

Awe so cute!!! Well at least she has one now that wont grow up to be HUGE!! Russians are beautiful!! Tell her when she gets to be like 20 something so by the time she is out on her own with a yard she can take it with her. My Daughter swears she will never marry or have children! Also never leave her Mom and Dad ... she is only 11 so we will see...

 

[ShannonMarie]

Your tortoises are so LUCKY that they have found you. Some People just buy them thinking they stay small and cute but don't realise the commitment they are making I've seen people that keep them in terrible conditions its unbelievable they deserve to live a long happy life.

Thank you!!! We love them and they are parts of our family forever. Thank you for the nice comment... i appreciate it. Your right about people and unfortunately sometimes they just release them to the desert and they don't make it because they were not raised wild. or your right they don't give them what they need. It is Sad..