What can I do to stop a chicken?

[Byrnesteph05]

I have 4 golden laced wyandottes and one charge at me this morning. They are not old enough to lay eggs yet so I know it's not because she was trying to protect eggs. How do I stop this behavior?

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Depends why it's charging. Are they male or female? How old? Sometimes they will run up to you if handled and given treats. Is it just coming to you or actually biting or attacking?

 

[WildNectarine]

I have 4 golden laced wyandottes and one charge at me this morning. They are not old enough to lay eggs yet so I know it's not because she was trying to protect eggs. How do I stop this behavior?

Kick it. Kidding. I’d probably just ignore it, if you don’t want to get rid of it, that is, because if it’s actually attacking you, it probably sees you as part of the flock and is trying to assert its dominance, so running away will only make it think its won, and fighting back will only make it think it hasn’t won yet, and it’ll just keep going. A lot of aggression is genetic, so it’s probably just going to be that way, but there’s a fair amount of people who swear by training tactics, so I’d wait and see what they’d say.

 

[Camo chicken146]

pullet or cockerel? and like other people have said are you sure its charging in an aggressive way like with its hackle (neck) feathers raised or just running up to you for food?

 

[Byrnesteph05]

So this morning when I went to go into collect their food and water canisters is when it ran up on me

 

[Camo chicken146]

So this morning when I went to go into collect their food and water canisters is when it ran up on me

little vague still, but it could have run up to you when it saw you get there feeder thinking it's gonna get food.

still need more details to make a better guess like if its male or female ect.

 

[Mrs. K]

Years ago, a respected poster on here posted about the mob like mentality when you bring in food. Some people like it, because they interpret it to mean that they chickens love you. I don't like it, because they are underfoot, and it seems a bit hysterical.

He said to just do the water chore first, then when they calm down, or you have let them out, then put out the feed. Or put the feed out before you let them out into the run.

I think it makes a difference.
Mrs K

 

[Byrnesteph05]

little vague still, but it could have run up to you when it saw you get there feeder thinking it's gonna get food.

still need more details to make a better guess like if its male or female ect.

It's female. I don't know what pullet or cockerel is.

 

[Finchbreeder]

Pullet = immature hen
Cockerel = Male

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

I have had grown hens do this a couple times-one tried to fly onto my back when I walked in and bent a little to put the waterer down. She had never done it before. I didn’t let her land-just pushed her away toward the ground. She never tried it again. Same thing happened recently with my head hen when she was on a high perch in the run and I went into the run. I did the same thing-swatted her down. It didn’t hurt her but she won’t try it again. She was definitely testing me. Now she knows I’m the boss because we had an incident the other day and she was up in the forest and wouldn’t come out until she heard my voice. Then she called for me to escort her back to the flock.
That’s a long way to say that dominance/aggression cannot be tolerated. Birds running up to me because I have food is not the same as aggression.