Why does your chicken hate you today?

[kattabelly]

They scratched an entire bale of straw out into one of the current favourite dust bath spots and then spent a few days sitting there. Now they can't dust bathe in that spot because it's covered by a thick layer of squashed down straw. I've done absolutely nothing to resolve this issue, and even sat there for a while myself just to add insult to injury.

 

[kattabelly]

13 week old cockerel managed to get a small strand of hay wedged between points of his comb, so it was hanging down in front of both his eyes. I grabbed him when his own attempts to dislodge it started getting more frantic, before he fell off the ledge he was on or ran into a window or something. He screamed like he was being eaten alive and avoided me for the rest of the day

 

[SkyAJK]

Why does your chicken hate you today?​

Because I check their bum bums, they say...no privacy, get your filthy hand off my bum bum!

 

[EmmaDonovan]

Because we can't have a rooster. Our alpha hen is a white leghorn who has taken it upon herself to be the rooster and that has not gone well.

 

[Fluffy_Butt_Hutt]

Because we can't have a rooster. Our alpha hen is a white leghorn who has taken it upon herself to be the rooster and that has not gone well.

In what way does she act?

 

[EmmaDonovan]

In what way does she act?

She wants to be in charge and manage and defend the flock but she's not a rooster and doesn't understand how to do those things. She ends up bullying and attacking other hens. Then those hens bully and attack other hens. The result is no one in our flock gets along. She also gets aggressive with people. She has bitten my hands, arms, and face.