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Smuvers Farm said:
:ya:ya:yaMomma to 4 Bantams!!!:ya:ya:ya

TSC for food. Checked out the chickies and duckies and poor widdle bantams they only had 4 left.... they looked sooooooooooo lonely..... so DH got them for me!

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Can I do the wing thing and spread 'em and y'all bantam ladies can tell me their sex???
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Three rows of feathers on the wings are boy two rows are girls I’m pretty sure
 
CSAchook said:
Hello you beautiful squatchers you!!!!! I hope everyone one is having a good weekend.

Cappy so very sorry to hear you are going through this kind of medical scare. Fingers and toes are crossed, prayers said, good Karma sent. :hugs Apryl this goes for you and your giant human too. :hugs

Also, to everyone (and man it really seems like it is EVERYONE) with new little lives to treasure (puppy, chickie, bunny etc) thank you for all the photo sharing! It always brightens my day. :love

And now my friends I need your advice. In the last month or so I have started to notice some aggression issues in my little flock. To recap, I have six hens: 3 LF cochins, 1 Speckled Sussex, 2 ISA browns. The cochins and SS are 11 months old and the ISAs are about a year and a half old. They have been living together as one flock since the end of summer (2017).

Problems:
-My white cochin is bullying my barred cochin.
-My ISAs are bullying my barred cochin.
-One ISA (Ana) is pulling feathers from all five other flock members.

The bullying is happen both during free range time and in the coop so I don't think it is purely a space issue.

The barred cochin is currently in her own little adjoining coop (see but no touch) while she puts some healthy weight back on. But she cannot stay there forever and it does nothing to stop the feather issues happening in the main flock.

Thoughts? Suggestions? I know cutting down to just the three nice hens would probably fix this...but it would also kill egg production, so I am keeping that option as a last resort. Also, is it ok to rehome bullies? Would they maybe do better in another flock? Maybe one with a rooster?

Any advice welcome! I always prefer asking you all—my friends—whenever I need advice. And there, I even threw in some em dashes as a bribe :D
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I would think rehoming a bully would put her at the bottom which would end her reign of terror
 

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