I have a coop with 6 bobwhite quail, a cockerel ringneck, a 7-pound austrolorp hen, and a recently added innecent sweet little sebright bantam. Princess, the austrolorp, is picking onthe new arrival and is preventing the baby from eating. Help!?
2007-06-04 06:20:30 · 6 answers · asked by Sunpaw 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Agriculture
I would do your best to make sure the bantam eats, maybe put another food bowl of some sort in a different area of the pen.
Poultry are just that way. Its a pecking order and princess is going to make sure that the new hen is on the bottom.
Just keep and eye out for blood, if theres blood IMMEDIATELY remove the bloody birds. Otherwise everyone will be picking on them.
The best thing to do is just wait it out soon there will be an order that they both will understand. She will be bottom but things should get better.
If you are too nervous you could take her out, but if you want her in that pen the sooner shes in the quicker the bullying will stop.
Good Luck an I'm sure she a cute one!
2007-06-04 08:43:19 · answer #1 · answered by hickchick210 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All birds go through a "pecking order" they will peck on each other,rush each other etc until they establish who is boss BUT I have been told that you can not intergret Bantams with larger birds for this very reason. The Bantam is very hardheaded and thinks it is bigger and meaner and will not succumb to the pecking order. Bantams have to be raised with other birds of equal size. I have a friend who raises Bantams,Doves and Pigeons for show and has done the bird thing for over 30yrs and he has warned me of this since I had thought of intergreting a "bannie" for sitting on my fertilized eggs. They are very good at mothering and will take on eggs other than their own and since I don't seem to have a large hen who wants to sit on a nest of eggs to hatch them out I thought about getting a "bannie" hen but after this advise I have changed my mind as I am not set up to keep a seperate cage for a Bantam.
2016-05-21 02:01:31 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
...put a 4' diameter loop of 3' high chicken wire in the middle of the scratch pen and put JUST the bantam in it. Throw the feed into the centre, concentrating on raining on your new hen. She'll feel so "special" she won't have time to worry, and the other birds will be too busy getting her toss-offs to worry her.
2007-06-04 09:33:10 · answer #3 · answered by bubblelator 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sebrights are too docile to be introduced last into a flock. Princess is really establishing her positiont in the PECKING order. The bird (last one) needs to go.
2007-06-04 09:55:36 · answer #4 · answered by Valerie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2015-04-29 17:15:58 · answer #5 · answered by John 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a good left hook should do the trick!!!!!
2007-06-04 09:20:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋