Odd Behavior of one bird

[MudPie]

Hi

I have 1 bird out of 14 that behaves very odd. The most notible behavor is he/she (can't tell yet), goes off on its own. Moves off as far as it can until it gets to the pasture fence, and never returns to the coup, or joins the other birds. It will stay out there over night, in storms, etc. I bring it back, it eats and drinks, then eventually moves off again. It moves off in no particular direction. The bird is a Crested Polish, about 23 weeks old.

Has anyone else seen this sort of behavor?

 

[Big dreams]

That is odd, hope someone answers soon as all of mine follow each other, one runs they all run....

 

[Uppity Peon]

Call him Marco Pollo!

 

[MudPie]

That is a good one...

 

[insiderart]

I have a little chick that's a loner too. I worry about keeping up with it when they go out. Not too safe to be by yourself out there. Safety in numbers.

 

[chseeads]

I wonder if limited visibility has anything to do with it, being a Polish....

Maybe it just wonders off aimlessly because it doesn't have much sense of direction due to the feathers over its eyes.....

Are its eyes covered heavily with feathers?

 

[MudPie]

The eye's are no more covered than 3 others I have. They all seem to have limited vision due to the feathers, but this one is way different in how it wonders. Maybe I should clip the head feathers and see if things change.

 

[MudPie]

Some more info... Last night I decided to lock all the birds down in the run. Within about 15 minutes, a little Sultan Roo attacked the bird that has the strange behavor. I'm not talking about some pecking. The little roo would bite down on the back of the neck of the polish, and not let go. I seperated them and the Sultan went back into the coup. My wife tells me they were at it again this morning.

 

[BirdBrained]

That would explain it,I have had to seperate 2 of mine,one from the bigger chicks and one from the smaller chicks,like they were being kicked out of the flock.It would seem the chickens behavior is rather natural,its getting beat up so it stays away and usually when one starts the attack the rest of the flock will join in.They tend to isolate the weakest and try to remove it from the flock or so it would seem in the cases I've experienced.