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dheltzel said:
I'd like to say you could get a pullet that will never be mean to others. Some breeds have reputations, but in the end there are personality variations. I believe that hens need at least 3 to cause issues, if there is only 1 other bird with them, there is no way to "gang up", they must be friends with the other bird or they will have no friends. So, if you choose to separate her, one of your existing pullets might befriend her if it is only the 2 of them. Of course, they might both choose to be broody together . . .
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We often choose a mellower personality hen or pullet to keep injury recovery birds company, broodies don't care if they have company but keeping any bird out of the flock for extended periods can cause reintegration issues. I have a few 'go to' company birds and a couple I avoid because they tend to be bossy and pecky.
 
fisherlady said:
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We often choose a mellower personality hen or pullet to keep injury recovery birds company, broodies don't care if they have company but keeping any bird out of the flock for extended periods can cause reintegration issues. I have a few 'go to' company birds and a couple I avoid because they tend to be bossy and pecky.
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Her sister was her friend but now even she picks on her. I feel bad. I make her get out of the box and she just runs around because everyone takes a shot at chasing her. And their yard is HUGE. It's probably equal in size to my goat's pasture.

My plan would be to keep her and the new friend in a separate run permenantly. i have it set up just need to wait few more weeks to switch the gold stars into the flock and then can take her out.
 
gonehencrazy said:
Her sister was her friend but now even she picks on her. I feel bad. I make her get out of the box and she just runs around because everyone takes a shot at chasing her. And their yard is HUGE. It's probably equal in size to my goat's pasture.

My plan would be to keep her and the new friend in a separate run permenantly. i have it set up just need to wait few more weeks to switch the gold stars into the flock and then can take her out.
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Gee, I think I would find her a new home. Separating her with a friend is good, but remember to add a third soon. If one passes away, you will have a lonely hen again.
 
Well...in weekend news....
We have a new broody (shocking , right? lol) but she isn't from our stock, she was from a friend's eggs (hatchery barred rock over americauna). We got a dozen off of him in the hopes to get some green egg layers, we only got a couple of green egg layers, so planned to sell these girls and go with a different breed to get blue or green.
Well, evidently being raised by a broody around our place can rub off a bit. This pullet just turned 6 months and I found her setting the other day. She gives new meaning to the term broodzilla! She is the most vicious broody we have ever had, and we have had plenty! She should be great at taking care of the youngsters, no one will dare get near her! :rant

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And to all who think chicks are so cute (and I have to admit that includes me) it can be very rough watching the little guys working out their pecking order. We have a current broody, Jeckle, with 7 chicks. I think 6 are boys and they are the most cantankerous, fightingest group of little hoodlums we have ever had! They are constantly bickering amongst themselves, about the only thing that distracts them is food, and begging treats, which they are also experts at! LOL
The other day I actually did intervene because one little one was really getting it from 2 others. Even Mindy and Dillon are stepping in to keep the peace with them now!
This little guy got cleaned up, Blu-Koted and put back into play. He is fine, but wow, nature can be a vicious thing. Funny thing is that every evening they all cuddle up in their box and act like all of the sparring is no big deal. :th
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fisherlady said:
Well...in weekend news....
We have a new broody (shocking , right? lol) but she isn't from our stock, she was from a friend's eggs (hatchery barred rock over americana). We got a dozen off of him in the hopes to get some green egg layers, we only got a couple of green egg layers, so planned to sell these girls and go with a different breed to get blue or green.
Well, evidently being raised by a broody around our place can rub off a bit. This pullet just turned 6 months and I found her setting the other day. She gives new meaning to the term broodzilla! She is the most vicious broody we have ever had, and we have had plenty! She should be great at taking care of the youngsters, no one will dare get near her! :rant

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She does look serious
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. Yeah, I'm sure everyone is shocked like me about you having another broody.
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TillyPeeps said:
She does look serious
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. Yeah, I'm sure everyone is shocked like me about you having another broody.
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It must be the water, lol!

This hen has been a problem child for the past month. She was raised in the eggers coop but decided for whatever reason that she liked the Silver Pencil Rock rooster in another pen. She constantly managed to get out of the eggers paddock (which is surrounded by an 8 ft chain link fence), walk over an elevated board to the edge of that run, fly across the silkie's run to the roof of the other coop and then jump down into the pencil's paddock. We kept finding her cuddled up to the other rooster in the evenings and DH finally caught her in the act and watched her. He caught her and returned her to the eggers paddock and she promptly repeated her escape route. So for the past 3 weeks I have had to mark SPR eggs as questionable since she lays brown eggs like they do! :barnie
Her brooding will resolve the egg identity problem for a while at least!
 
Hubs and I have expanded our flock to 14 as of yesterday. I swear we are done! I am fairly certain our Sirius is a roo, so he needed his own girls. Our rogue EE, now named Bellatrix, was safely captured on Friday. We've added two lady BAs and two lovely Light Brahmas. OnceI figure out how to tell them all apart, they will be Minerva, Sybill, Narcissa and Nymphadora (Tonks).

Here are all the newbies, and also a shot of Sirius. I would love opinions to see if my assessment of his gender is correct.
 

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