Please help! Found a chicken and it's not okay with our other two.

[Renown]

Yeah, she was kept away from the others for a while. And as for now, while the others are free ranging, she's in their coupe locked up, and while they are in the coupe, she comes inside to where she sleeps.

I'll tell everyone to gear up for a great name change-a-thon. Because the boy has a girl name, and both girls have boy names. So we gotta fix that. ^^

Thank you for all of your help everyone. I'll tell the family what I've learned. Thank you so much. If you need more pictures I can try taking some, by the way. And no, she does not have feathering on her feet.

 

[Year of the Rooster]

How old are the other two birds? Unless I'm mistaken, I see all hens. The pecking is NOT mounting behavior. I see mine chickens do that and it sounds more like dominance. If it is mounting behavior then he is inexperienced

 

[Sillystunt]

i would like to see her standing, she really looks like an oegb(feathers on the feet would rule that out, that would be cochin). i have a lemon blue OEGB, they are soo sweet!

 

[canada-goose]

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That face looks pretty red to me...

 

[Renown]

I'll take a picture of her now. The other's need to get inside anyways.

And The others are a month or two old. I haven't been over in a while so I don't quite remember, but they were raised together from young chicks.

 

[Renown]

I have the new pictures and am uploading now. They are some standing shots and some shots of her crest.

 

[Renown]

 

[cthrash1]

She's still a little young probably about 4-5 months... She is a pretty girl!

ETA: changed age guess

 

[High Roost Ranch]

She's likely a OEGB (Old English Game Bantam) pullet. There are no saddle feathers. She looks about 1/2 grown. Her color variety is probably closest to a Black Tailed Buff. But back up a minute, in your first post did you say someone found her with kids abusing her? The little heathens, they ought to be flogged for that.

Chickens have a hierarchy. Newcomers are always put through the paces of finding their place in the flock. Sometimes it's a mild case of where do you belong, sometimes it's an all out war, and you'd swear someone was going to have to have a burial. You might come to find that next to your large fowl, she'll be the scrappiest of them all when it's all said and done, and they'll bow to her.

I do agree about biosecurity completely. For 30 days, she should not have shared cage space (even alternately) with any of your current birds. She should have been in a different area away from access to your current flock. You should always tend to the confined birds last when you have new ones added, so you don't bring to your current collection anything that a new bird may be shedding either in feather dander, feces or other body fluids. Whenever you stress a bird (introducing them to others is a HUGE stress, even changing their environment) that is when underlying dormant issues come to the forefront. She certainly looks healthy, but beware of any sneezing, coughing or anything else that may come up now since you don't know that she's disease free.

Once you get past the isolation stage, introduce her to your flock slowly, a few hours at a time each day and just lengthen it out. If she is an OEGB, she'll not get too much bigger than she already is.

 

[Wildsky]

OR you can buy her a diaper and have an indoor girlie, she's very cute!!