Whose at the bottom of your pecking order

[urban dreamer]

I have a EE pullet (named Ginger too). She is definately at the bottom of the pecking order. Everyone eles is bigger than her and my head hen Zoii (Barred Rock) won't give her an inch. Poor baby.

I did find them snuggled up last night on the same roost. Looks like Zoii isn't such a meanie after all.

 

[Buff Hooligans]

I have four Buff Orps. The one with the bent over comb is the lowest. I think because her comb is different.

 

[The Chickens' Maid]

The bottom of the pecking order is being shared right now . . . five pullets, one cockerel, a frizzle bantam, and our poor, henpecked rooster.

Sally (Lakenvelder), Bach-Bach, and Mildred (Wyandottes)

Mortimer (silkie/BO)

Rosie, who has her own private "coop". (Breed unknown)

Margaret (Leghorn)

Spot II (Leghorn)

Spok (Buff Orpington)

 

[Rangely]

My Speckled Sussex is the whipping post.
She sleeps in the nesting boxes, eats like a pig, took five months to molt, knocks the water bowl over, and only lays 2 eggs/week. Talk about a recipe for freezer camp!

 

[BlackBart]

My black Cochin hen, Coco. She is very gentle and just about everybody picks on her. Most of the time she is by herself and walks around looking a little lost.
I renovated a dog house for her and two easy going hens to sleep in so she will get some peace from the dominant hens.

 

[CoopCrazy]

Mine is my lil Partridge Bantam Cochin.. She always has a bald head .. But if I take her out she does everything to get back in with big girls....

 

[ams3651]

For the longest time it was my youngsters. Then it was just the young cockerel, the older hens hated him but he has come into his own and wont allow it anymore, even the older roo doesnt give him too much trouble. When I was watching yesterday it seemed to be one of the young hens. They are now 9 months old, the older are a year and 9 months. Im gonna try to get a pic of that young roo, hes just gorgeous, EE x RIR.

 

[daisy_dukers]

Sadly I think I caused my poor "drumstick" to be on the bottom of the pecking order, she turned out more sandy colored rather than brown like the rest of my ISA browns, so from the beginning she has been the chicken who I used when I introduced the chickens to the dogs... Since I could tell her appart I also gave her more attention and she is way tamer than the rest.

They pick on her quite a bit and gang up on her once in a while. The last straw was when one of the other chickens tried to drag her across the coop by her comb. She got away and ran behind me with the evil hen chasing her, needless to say said chicken bounced off the wall really quickly, and after coming right back and trying to peck me I grabbed it by the neck and explained to it that "IT" just got strike #2, and there would be NO STRIKE #3.

Here is a drumstick early on at about week 10.

 

[OhMyItsAndyy]

Before the fox got them, My little Minnie was at the bottom, but top dog Junior (my roo) looked after her, but the other 3 where almost, shared second? Cocoa and Fudge where never apart so they shared and pushed away Babz but Babz never like to leave Junior alone... so that wasn't ever a solid decision. Minnie was tiny even for a bantem though so... poor thing

 

[meadrian]

My GLW, Chloe, is at the bottom of the pecking order. My Delaware, Olympia, always picks on her. Chloe will be taking a dustbath and here comes Olympia pecking and scratching at her. She's on her own most the time, too. My Barred Rock, Calliope and Olympia hang together, but Chloe's pretty much on her own.