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[Jeansrie]

Wait you said she was the one being aggressive... are you sure the blood was hers?  Keep her separated for a few days and when you reintroduce her put her on the roost at night when it's dark.  That's your best bet.  There will be some scuffles the next day and they reform a pecking order so don't be too quick to step in and help, pecking order keeps peace in the barnyard unless someone is being visibly harmed.

Yes it was her picking on the others.. they were just trying to walk away from her and it didn't seem serious or I would have stayed to see what was going on. None of the others have any marks at all, I even looked at their beaks for blood or feathers to try and figure out who was the perpetrator but nothing. There was splattered blood in quite a few places in the backyard and in the coop. She doesn't seem happy at all to be in the garage.

 

[shelbydog]

Anybody have a pile of barn tin I can rummage through? Going to make my Cluckin' Corgi Ranch sign out it.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Shelbydog let me check in the barn. I know we have some out there not sure how much or the condition. What exactly are you hoping for?

 

[shelbydog]

Weathered is fine. Just not mangled. Cutting out silhouettes of corgis and chickens and possibly the letters and then mounting them to a sheet or 2 of barn tin or painted wood.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Posted some pics on Facebook for you shelbydog.

 

[Kassaundra]

~~Spent the last few days gardening w/ the flock, and observing. I made an observation I was wondering if anyone else had noticed. I have 2 young roo's just now getting their big boy hormones started. These 2 I know maternal parentage, and neither were raised by their bio moms. First is Shakespear


Shakespear is the head roo, calm cool collected, every bit the "man in charge"



His mother was Mensa, calm, thinking, high in the pecking order



Then there is Eurkle (formerly cool j, but he couldn't keep that name w/ his personality), he as afraid of his shadow, very flighty, if he sees a leaf blow he literally jumps up, yells and puts his head down and goes at a dead run, I swear if he had arms they would be flailing as he ran. His broody mom is very high in the pecking order, calm, cool and collected.




Bio mom, of Eurkle, a bit of an outsider, flighty, never trusts anyone ever no matter how many treats you come with or how juicy the treat is. She was the only true survivor of my big massacre, she was in the same yard as all the carnage and got and stayed high and survived, all the others who survived were in a separate area.

Anyway it struck me as interesting how close the boys personality is to their bio moms, not like their bio dads, or broody moms.

So is this a fluke or a thing?

 

[Kyzmette]

Only survivors pass on their genes. Flightiness is likely a trait that can be passed on. You wouldn't think personality would be, but in chickens there's always one breed that's more calm and another breed that's more neurotic. You wouldn't have entire breeds like that if it weren't genetic, right?

 

[Kassaundra]

I just found it odd that the boys got personalties from the moms, not the dads and seemingly from hatch since they didn't have contact w/ biomoms growing up. I wondered if there was some consistency to boys inheriting more personality from moms.

 

[NanaKat]

Wait you said she was the one being aggressive... are you sure the blood was hers?  Keep her separated for a few days and when you reintroduce her put her on the roost at night when it's dark.  That's your best bet.  There will be some scuffles the next day and they reform a pecking order so don't be too quick to step in and help, pecking order keeps peace in the barnyard unless someone is being visibly harmed.

Yes it was her picking on the others.. they were just trying to walk away from her and it didn't seem serious or I would have stayed to see what was going on. None of the others have any marks at all, I even looked at their beaks for blood or feathers to try and figure out who was the perpetrator but nothing. There was splattered blood in quite a few places in the backyard and in the coop. She doesn't seem happy at all to be in the garage.

It's possible that a cock bird put her in her place when she pecked one of his favorites. Usually the males let the girls settle their issues, but will step in when it becomes dangerous.

 

[mjgigax]

Yes, Collinsville will always be special to me. If I hadn't begun working in downtown Tulsa I would still be living there. I just hated the 30 minute drive each way lol.

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