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Any chicken whisperers on PA?

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Mesophilic:
We'll it appears my bird are just pure evil.  So the younger hens have been relocated, and in the process a big hen just showed up wanting in my coop.  Short version...I'm sending the stray hen off with a family in the mountains to a better flock.  My hens tormented her so badly that I even felt a little bad for her.

BowEd:
I think it's best to start out with the while group from chicks.
With the way prices have gone up on eggs we will be getting a bunch of chicks next spring.
The plan has to submerg the cost to feed them though.Free ranging is an option too if you don't have too many predators around.

Pappy:
Funny I was thinking of you yesterday morning while hunting, I was watching a bunch of her Turkeys feeding in a large cut bean field and I mean a bunch of Turkey, they were on each other like white in rice, especially the bigger ones, they would flog and fight ever time the smaller ones got close, kind of comical to watch but probably not so much for the smaller ones. :-\ I though sure some of them were going to kill each other, guess it's not only people that can't get along.  ;) :) :)
 Pappy

Hawkdancer:
Memory is bit faded with time, but when I was about 4 or so, we had chickens and I was feeding them, one seemed to not like me or my bantam rooster, started pecking at me, a solid whack with a half full feed bucket solved the problem!  but that as nearly 78 years ago!  Btw, we got 50 unsexed chicks, 49 roosters and 1 hen - there was a big chicken dinner for the neighborhood!
Hawkdancer

JW_Halverson:
Maybe pen up the bossy old hen for a few weeks to let the rest of the flock work things out. By the time she gets out maybe her loss of status will calm things down?

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