This is a follow up from an earlier post I made. Back story: I have 6 hens. I had to bring my sweet EE (5 yrs. old) into the house for a week to treat a prolapsed vent. When she rejoined the group back outside, everything was fine (she is 2nd in the pecking order). A few days later she didn't look good and was just sitting in the yard and not moving a whole lot. I brought her inside and in the morning she was back to normal, so I let her back out. THIS is when the situation started. My Barred Rock (3 years old and 2nd to the bottom of the pecking order) started chasing her and she RAN! This is when the tormenting began and she began her life living in terror. She wouldn't come out of the nesting boxes and hence wasn't getting food and water. I even locked the bully out of the coop/run but she was still terrified and wouldn't come out of the nesting boxes. I took advice from this forum and isolated the bully (back inside the house) with another hen (also 3 years) that was joining in on the bullying. I had them in for a few days and reintroduced. No change! I brought only the main bully back into the house and it turns out the bully's sidekick left my EE alone when her bully friend was not around. This time the isolation was 5 days. I let her out AGAIN, and still this awful situation persisted. I brought her in once again, this time for another few days. When I let her out, not only did she attack my EE, who was on the ground underneath her, but 2 others also joined in. I was almost in tears. It was so awful seeing my EE be trapped and pecked by a gang. I have no idea what to do now. I really don't want to try pinless peepers. Would more isolating help? (it doesn't seem to have done much). The other problem is whenever the EE just SEES the bully, she starts clucking like crazy and runs at top speed in the other direction. Thoughts? Advice? Thanks!
