pecking

Alright. I suspect I know the answer. And while I know this "suspected roo" is just attacking those not "in his flock", I'm not sure if he'll outgrow it. ?? We have 3 - 6week old boys, hatched ourselves(easter eggers. Blue Wheaten Ameraucana is sire from local breeder), and obviously they play...

My chickens developed a bad habit. They think I'm made out of food so they were constantly pecking my legs. Even through my jeans it often hurt. It's surprising how hard they can pinch. I cut two pieces of roof flashing the right size to wrap around my legs under my pant legs. When I went in...

My 7 week old gals are quite the peckers! Sometimes it even hurts a bit. Right now I wear boots and jeans but I’m terrified when it’s warm enough to wear shorts 😩 What does everyone else do? Just armor up?

We got our new chicks one week ago. This is also our first time raising chicks. They were doing fine the past week but last night one of them died. We are not exactly sure why but after a lot of research today, we think sudden death syndrome. Anyway, all of sudden today the other 3 seem to...

Hey folks! I have 4 three month old pullets that I bought 2 weeks ago. Its a small flock of hens with 2 ISA Brown and 2 Azur. In the last week I noticed that the Brown's have been Pecking at the Azur's tail feathers. They don't seem to mind at all but their tail feathers are balding. They don't...

I got two new female quails for my male quail. They seem to feel comfortable with each other and not threatened. Playing and eating together. However one female has started to try and peck either the male or other female if they get near. I don’t want the other two to feel uncomfortable in...

Hi all, I have a frizzle named Crackle, and over the past week, she has been sitting in her box with the other hens surrounding her. When I go up close to the other hens, they seem like they are in a trance and don't acknowledge that I'm there. I'm getting the eggs out at the moment, after a lot...

I'm desperate and need any/all advice. I need to give a little back story and I'll include pictures when I can. At the end of April 2023, we purchased 6 chicks from a local feed store. 2 Starlight Green Eggers ( SGE - 2 weeks old), 2 Black Australorps (BA - 1 week old), 1 Barred Rock (BR - 1...

Hello all, I'm new to henwiffery and will have had my first hens for 2 weeks tomorrow. They are 3 ex-commercial rescues, all pretty tatty and sorry looking on arrival but really finding their feet now! As there is only the three of them it's been pretty easy to determine who ranks where in the...

Hi my hen munchkin has been trying to hatch unfertilized eggs for at least a week now and she has not been eating. I tried getting her up by moving her with a stick and she broke it by pecking. Everytime I open the coop door she does the little angry chicken scream and puffs and tries to pick...

Hello! I decided to let my broody RSL hatch some chicks. I purchased fertilized eggs from a local farmer and 3 weeks later had 8 beautiful and colourful chicks. Fast forward 2 weeks and 2 days post hatch…. They are fighting! Like draw blood on the comb fighting. My biggest bully (who I for some...

recently added a flock of 3 chickens to the other chicken that i already had before. i bought the 3 chickens with the intention of adding them together. after around a week of the chickens not showing any signs of illness or lethargy, i decided to mix them in. the flock is made out of 2 hens and...

My 10 week old hens live outside in a pen. Maybe 3-4 weeks ago I reinforced it with small chicken wire 2 ft up from the base after one of my hens was beheaded by a predator. (I reinforced it that afternoon.) Then, the following morning another hen had a head wound. not too bad, bloody and some...

Hello! I have got a French Copper Black Marans who is about a year old now and was the victim of some trauma from change and bullying, she looks awful and I’m wondering how long it will take for her feathers to regrow and for her to look beautiful again? For context (I’ll try to keep it brief)...

This one speckled sussex is obsessed with pecking at the tail feathers of the leghorn chick, specifically. doesn't appear to be attempting to pluck the feathers out, doesn't grab and hold on and tug- just poking. Doesn't do it to any of the other ones. the leghorn seems unphased... for now.

Hi friends, I have ten chickens living in a large covered run in four prefab coops (with ventilation panels added) so there are 2 or 3 birds in each house and they roost with their closest friends / age group with whom they entered the flock. I’m raising three Sicilian Buttercup pullets who...

Hi everyone! I have a total of 8 young pullets, 1 cockeral right now. All are 9-10 weeks old now. 6 of the pullets + the cockerel (all bym) were brooded together, and I added the three extra pullets (two cream/one pearl legbar) about two weeks ago, when they were all about 7-8 weeks old...

I have my one hen who has had a bald scabby head for almost a month. I don’t see any evidence of lice or mites anywhere, and I am favoring she is just getting picked on. Vent and under wings clear. I don’t observe anyone hen pecking her during the day, but she is lower on the totem pole. If she...

So one of my legbars, Misdemeanor, has always been a bit aloof. She's warming up a lot recently but she has an odd habit: she pecks my hand/fingers, not hard and it doesn't hurt, but she does tend to hold on for a bit? As in, she'll give the back of my hand a quick peck and then bite my finger...

So I've got my just about 6 weeks old flock of Buff Orpington chicks, I've got 19 to the flock, I moved them to the outdoor coop/run about a week ago as they had started to bully each other to the point of bleeding, about a day or two ago now I started to notice that some chicks are missing...