Normal chicken behavior?

[Kazfam]

Hope it's normal - ours do the same thing.

 

[azygous]

If you really want to see them scrape their beaks, offer them some peanut butter. They adore it, but they can't wait to scrape it off their beaks. Careful, or they'll use your pant legs to clean their beaks on.

As for getting rid of domineering chickens, you'll probably end up with another one as soon as someone moves up the pecking order to fill the dominant slot.

I've found that micromanaging chicken behavior is quite the losing battle.

 

[newbie32]

If you really want to see them scrape their beaks, offer them some peanut butter. They adore it, but they can't wait to scrape it off their beaks. Careful, or they'll use your pant legs to clean their beaks on.

As for getting rid of domineering chickens, you'll probably end up with another one as soon as someone moves up the pecking order to fill the dominant slot.

I've found that micromanaging chicken behavior is quite the losing battle.

LOL I would love to see the peanut butter! My dog does funny stuff with it so I can just imagine what the chickens will do! As far as my Lisa goes-well she is second in command and she just pecks at the babies sometimes, but it isn't as much as it used to be. I am a little nervous with putting a new flock of babies in there with her. But they will have room to run from her since she is quite the big beauty.

 

[susanp970]

Chickens are actually pretty clean, they get rid of any thing that doesn't belong, they are forever preening and fluffing. If something in particular (a feather that is out of place) they get rid of it.

 

[newbie32]

they eat Styrofoam peanuts that they dig up in the backyard. IDK how they keep getting them, I am assuming previous renter buried everything. I chase them down but by the time I get to them they have eaten them. I went on a huge yard cleanup with my daughters the other day. We unburied all kinds of trash and it wasn't mine because we never use some of those products. Anyways-will it kill my chickens?