Should I cull them.

[quintinp]

Also as some of you noted about the pecking order, I will ignore it for the most part with other chickens, but my BABY was getting hurt and it was getting really personal. So I let my anger get in the way.

 

[BigDaddy'sGurl]

You know, I almost gave my birds some cooked onions earlier and said, "nah, they won't eat 'em". But now you've made me decide I should try tomorrow!

 

[CMV]

First- onions are toxic to birds. Ingestion leads to GI damage.

Second- if you want a house chicken then the chicken can not be put in with an outdoor flock only when it is convenient for you. The bird is always going to get beaten up because it will never be considered a flock member. A chicken must either be a house chicken or a flock chicken, but can't be both. Flock dynamics simply won't permit it.

Third- I am not great at sexing, but that bird looks like it may be a boy. The in-fighting is only going to get worse as those boys age, especially if you keep separating and reintroducing one of the boys.

Good luck.

 

[Fred's Hens]

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Again, just make it clear and not trying to "pile on" here, but you cannot take a chicken away from the flock, as you stated that you did, and then try to return it, for a visit, some time later. To the flock birds, you introduced an outsider, an intruder. Don't blame the coop birds. They were only doing what their instincts tell them to do. If you make a house pet out of a chicken, it is no longer a flock chicken.

 

[waterchicken]

I agree with Fred's. I think..... could be roo could be pullet, just wait for the first egg or crowing.