Which breed of chicken is at the top of your flock (pecking order)

[dirtsaver]

Our Australorps are at the top which makes since as they have been around longer than the other girls. Amongst the others it seems to vary a lot but no one.... even the Australorps ever pick on our smaller Buff Brahma Blondie. She is the one that almost died as a baby when she got her leg caught in the brooder grow-out coop and hung upside down several hours. She never grew as big as our other Buff Brahma but she recovered and now barely limps,lays a couple eggs each week and chases other chickens around the yard...she will not take any crap off any of the others.

 

[Cynthia12]

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And she is the boss of how many? And are they all banties...or are some LF. I have a banty that is a little stinker to my brown leghorn.

Just waiting to see what my Partridge Rock is going to do..has been very shy, but lately, walking right up to some of the others and giving that ever so nice and sweet...stink eye! I love how when they do that, they freeze, like they are daring the other to make the first move.

 

[BooBear]

Lester is the top rooster and it is either Una, Fifi, or Mrs. Grumpy that holds the top spot of the girls. Kinda hard to pick out as they look similiar and seem to take turns on who the main girl is; however, most of the time it is Una. They are all Wyandottes. (Fifi has the fluffest butt though, Una is a bit slim, and Mrs. Grumpy I can pick out by her sounds, yep they are grumpy sounds

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However, my cucko silkie Blueberry has no problem holding her ground against these girls as I have seen her put Mrs. Grumpy in her place. Everyone stays out of Blueberry's way when she has chicks in tow. Blueberry loves babies and is on her second batch since discovering what that egg is.

 

[moodlymoo]

Big Bertha my Blue Laced Red Wynadotte is queen of the flock

 

[Johnn]

Shes my boss and ex battery hen

 

[daddy_roo]

I just introduced a few (well 8) new hens to my flock, and one of them a mut im guessing, She is white with black legs and acts and socializes with the sex links more than anything, before her it was a black sex link i call raw hide. My lab got a hold of her butt and she came out o it fine and took over the roost.. lol

 

[BWchicken]

Lucy, my Silver Sebright.
I even saw her wing dance the rooster a couple times. He just looked at her like she's crazy and ignored it. She didn't push it, he's the big boss for sure lol

 

[Tracydr]

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And she is the boss of how many? And are they all banties...or are some LF. I have a banty that is a little stinker to my brown leghorn.

Just waiting to see what my Partridge Rock is going to do..has been very shy, but lately, walking right up to some of the others and giving that ever so nice and sweet...stink eye! I love how when they do that, they freeze, like they are daring the other to make the first move.

I have about 20 adults, only two other Banties. There are a bunch of 8-9 weekers in there, red production Pullets, red production packing peanut Roos and 18 Cornish X that are 8-9 weeks old. The large fowl are EEs, Fayoumi, Hamburg and Buttercups and two silver leghorns.
The Fayoumis are really bossy with everyone else but they would never push the banty hen around. Actually,the three bantys are at the top of the pecking order. It's pretty funny to see them chase and grab feathers off hens four times their size or more, not to mention when the big, fat Cornish get in trouble!

 

[Toshi]

My little SS hen Chatter is the boss. She even pushes my roo into doing what she wants. He will be trying to gather them up and she will just wonder away from him. Lol he gets so mad at her when she dose that.

Thats her looking at the camra. With Noka, all the spots and Griffin the roo.

 

[BlossomSilkies]

My little white Silkie, Ling Ling is top hen. One of the funniest things she does is at night when the girls start to want to go to bed, Ling Ling will stand in the door way and turn them away. If one sneaks by her, she will go inside and chase them out. Nobody goes to bed until Ling Ling gives the go-ahead. I'm not sure what determines that it's time.