This video shows how I stop severe chicken bullying and fighting in our flock. When hens pick on one bird and go beyond the normal “pecking order” causing damage it’s time to step in to prevent further injury.
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All mine picked on one of my birds to varying degrees and there was nothing I could do – so I put her in a hut with one other bird and there they live happily ever after – I have swapped the other bird with a different one once but now she is in with a bird who lost her feathers – maybe for another reason.
I like this guy. He looks like a cross of Alex Jones and Russell Crowe.
I've found that it's best to keep 1 breed of chicken or the breeds separated from each other
Good for you for putting her in protective custody! Good henfather. Asperger's hen stay strong!
Thank you I’m a new chicken mom, and I lost a lot of pullets early on to sickness. So I had to get a few more to add to the flock. It hasn’t been going well so this helped, to See how things will work out. No Bloody like that but there is pecking. It was good for me to see how the pecking will work itself out.
I wonder if it's one bully or several bullies? If it's one bully, maybe segregating them for a few days or even a week would make the bully into something of an outsider who is on their best behavior once they come back to the flock.
her comb is very pale. Our chickens have much redder combs. I hope she is okay.
Don't put her back in with those bitches!!! :)))
Him chatting to the chicken and her softly clucking back lol.
She is terrified! Don't put her back in there!
Chickens will get on trees if they can't find a safe shelter. My rooster does that.
Obviously, she didn't feel safe in the pen with that bitch.
That hen said help help help at 6:40 mark.
Why do they bully them to keep them in place from doing what ? Eating first or something
It shows a lot of love in the way you take care of them. 🙂
Why can't you just get to the damn point… oh, I see, there is no point..
Wouldn't it make sense to find another person who raises the same breed as what she is and give her to them?
you need to put the buling one separate by her self and learn to stop been a Buling, Or she never is going to learn.
Very educational
I had my own chickens I bought at the local country auction at age 11.
Was only like $3 for a dozen chicks. When the chickens were full grown, one fled the coop and disappeared for a month or two.
I later spotted it in the woods and captured it and returned it to the coop but the other chickens didn't accept it back and bullied it to very poor health.
I removed the chicken and let it recover in the basement but it wouldn't eat, drink, or even move from its spot for days and never seemed to get better as it would do kinda a half stand up where it wasn't sitting flat completely but wasn't standing fully either. It just seemed so miserable and I worried the other chickens would never accept it and would just bully it again; it was the smallest hen.
I ended up making the decision to put it out of its misery. I had a friend of my brother do the deed. I felt so bad for that hen.
I have a hen that bullies the other hen I use SCARLET OIL wound dressing and it works great..
What we do for birds lol
aww poor chook, good on you mark
My chickens sleep on trees there wild thereat least 7m high every night
I was the only guy at my workplace… it was kind of like that.
Sometimes chickens end up in the pot sooner than they should…. good place for bullies that don't learn
You need a rooster and problem solved.
I have (6 now) hens that sleep in my evergreen tree. After about 3-4 weeks of that, one of my roosters has decided to join them. I am glad, I think, because at least I know that he is there to take care of them. The 6 that stay in the tree are not doing it because they are bullied, I am not sure why they did it, but it all seems to work. I think I have 17 hens now and 4 roosters. So they just stay where they want.
What is bind boggling to me is your ease with pythons. I wouldn't be living in a place where snakes are such a "normal" part of the ecosystem EVER. I mean, how can you leave your kids to play outside knowing that snakes of that sort are around?
Good advice. Thank you!
I had one of my older girls that didn't want to go in the coop when introducing new chickens. I should've let her stay out. They pecked her to death. My poor sweet girl.