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 Post subject: some one in my flock is being bullied
PostPosted: Sun Dec 15, 2013 10:49 am 
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I have been watching the clock though the cameras zoom today and noticed one of the chookies pantings and there are a few feathers around on he ground.

I have also been hearing a loud pain like sound from time to time.

have rung the breeder
14 of them had been from one pen and the others from another Henry also came from that pen.

Shes told me to do what I am doing and keep a eye on the chookie and if the choke seems to et worst treatment the best thing for the flock would be to remove the chookie

Is there a way to get every one else to stop picking on the chookie and accept that member of the flock

And to unstress the poor chookie

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Time is the only answer, just make sure they are ALL eating and drinking and they will sooner or later get on


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 Post subject: Re: some one in my flock is being bullied
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I found out she's not being bullied but what could it be I found out while putting them to bed on Sunday night

I had just put the pullet on the perch she had her beak open and opening it wider and wider and at the same time stretching her neck out away form her body then with a sharp quick movent she pulled her neck and hed in along with a sharp cry.
And the pullet next to her had made no move towards her

Yesterday she seemed better.

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 Post subject: Re: some one in my flock is being bullied
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Could be stress that can make them do odd things

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Cordelia wrote:
Could be stress that can make them do odd things


Thank you Cordeila

Thing you are right also think it was a cobo of stress and she is the lowrest chookie in the pecking rder


Why moving the feeder out of the hen house and into the run made her start to eat more food

The chookie and I are both getting over the stress ( mine was stress via worry)

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They may not be used to a closed in roost?


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They may not be used to a closed in roost?


Could that too cause stress.

I had been told they had never perched before I have been teaching them all week.

half the flock know how to perch now.

Before they arrived here they lived for the first 6 weeks in a brooder box,
Then in a pen from 6 weeks to 10 weeks.
They were not taught to perch.

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Any update on your flock? Are thy settling in? happy_duck

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Any update on your flock? Are thy settling in? happy_duck


Yes they have settled in, got some more pic's

Mary is getting to be a lap chicken

Anne has stopped her odd behavior

Mary also disliked the old green hopper and refused to eat out of it she approves of he new feeders i have bought them.

Last night Mary finally had a full crop she was getting not enough food there before that.

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