What to do about a "toe bitter"

[chickenchaser99]

We have a baby chicken that keeps picking on the others. He grabs them by the toes and drags them. Anyone know what we can do to make him stop??

 

[Mahonri]

separate him.

You can do that with a little card board and tape.

 

[Opa]

You could make the wood shaving deeper to help hide their feet.

 

[drafthorse39]

I've heard a red light helps. The only thing that works for me is shavings. I hate it though cause they get the feed lost in the shavings and it goes to waste. I guess it's better then missing toes. I got tired of my game birds losing their toenails I had to put the shavings in.

 

[Highland Moongazer]

Well, toes do look delicious!

Do you have a red bulb?

 

[Keenonf]

Cull him. Just kidding

. Maybe encourage the others to bite his toes and show him how it feels lol.

 

[hen-thusiast]

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We had one that did that relentlessly to the others... until another chick took HER by the foot and drug her around. All foot dragging stopped. Maybe you can sit down and have a pep rally with the others.....

I'd try separating, the one that drug the others around by their feet is now the top hen, so it could be a dominance thing.

 

[steelersfan43]

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Yeah we have a red bulb. We put in those potty pads for puppies in there so that they could eat the grow gel without making a mess. We will do the shavings and see if that works. We put him in the tub with the bigger chicks since he was in the bantam tub to see if that helped but he didnt seem to mind at all. We named him Toe-by

 

[MissAnnieFrannie]

LOL Toe-by....HAR HAR HAR! that is cute

 

[Armageddon]

Roflol!!!!