Carrie Lynn
Songster
My RIR has been attacking my banty (former head of pecking order). Since the banty had been removed for being ill and beaten up, the RIR has been attacking her when I try to put them together. The banty first runs away and then submits and lays flat, the RIR attacks, I think it is more than trying to establish herself as top of the pecking order. I am beginning to think that now that she has successfully attacked her she won't let up...ever.
Yesterday, in a small run she went after her, when the banty laid down in submission the RIR got on top and took out a beak full of neck/back feathers before I could get the banty out.
Is it resonable to think she will always treat her like this, now that she knows she can? Is it payback for when she was younger and the banty pecked and chased her as she established herself as boss?
I'm not set-up enough to include a chicken jail for the RIR yet, but hope to be in a couple weeks. Until then the banty stays inside the house. My BA treats her gently when banty & she get to dustbathe and scartch around together. Perhaps the RIR needs to go...
Thanks in advance,
Janice
Yesterday, in a small run she went after her, when the banty laid down in submission the RIR got on top and took out a beak full of neck/back feathers before I could get the banty out.
Is it resonable to think she will always treat her like this, now that she knows she can? Is it payback for when she was younger and the banty pecked and chased her as she established herself as boss?
I'm not set-up enough to include a chicken jail for the RIR yet, but hope to be in a couple weeks. Until then the banty stays inside the house. My BA treats her gently when banty & she get to dustbathe and scartch around together. Perhaps the RIR needs to go...
Thanks in advance,
Janice
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