City Farmer Jim
Songster
I'll start by saying pictures to follow.
Here's the deal..we have a mixed flock of 2 gold laced Wyandottes 2 Easter eggers 2 blue Wyandottes 2 buff orpington and a barred rock and a silver laced Wyandotte and 2 black astrolorp. We had a bullying with a buff orpington and rehomed her for mounting 1 of the 2 astrolorp and pecking her to bareing her to the skin but no blood NOW I have caught the barred rock(the new head hen) mounting the same astrolorp and removing MORE feathers....low and behold the second one is all but neck naked. Is this simply a docile hen being a victim the pecking order..the Easter Eggers and astrolorps are the same age and raised but the Astrolorps seem to get all the worst pecking and EEs get very little pecking order pecking....what am I missing? Side note..it has been 95 plus since early May and shows no sign of letting up. They are in the 3000 plus sqft run Monday through Friday at 4:30 and free range a 1/3 of an acre until coop time Sunday night. Feed is at will with 50 lbs available and 15 gallons of water is always available with 2 other separate 2 gallon pans of water automatically filled.
Here's the deal..we have a mixed flock of 2 gold laced Wyandottes 2 Easter eggers 2 blue Wyandottes 2 buff orpington and a barred rock and a silver laced Wyandotte and 2 black astrolorp. We had a bullying with a buff orpington and rehomed her for mounting 1 of the 2 astrolorp and pecking her to bareing her to the skin but no blood NOW I have caught the barred rock(the new head hen) mounting the same astrolorp and removing MORE feathers....low and behold the second one is all but neck naked. Is this simply a docile hen being a victim the pecking order..the Easter Eggers and astrolorps are the same age and raised but the Astrolorps seem to get all the worst pecking and EEs get very little pecking order pecking....what am I missing? Side note..it has been 95 plus since early May and shows no sign of letting up. They are in the 3000 plus sqft run Monday through Friday at 4:30 and free range a 1/3 of an acre until coop time Sunday night. Feed is at will with 50 lbs available and 15 gallons of water is always available with 2 other separate 2 gallon pans of water automatically filled.
