Chickens Killing Chickens! What to do about "Pecking Order" in your flock

we're saving your life okay we're gonna save your life today it's GNA be all right nobody's gonna pick on you anymore okay Hot Seat ouch yo [Music] good morning folks and welcome back to the Stony Ridge Farm Channel today we have an issue and you can hear it right now this chicken's throwing a fit so guys if you keep chickens you know and I know and maybe you don't know what the heck is the deal with chickens and the pecking order we've got a chicken right here a little hin that has been picked on and pecked on so horribly and I finally have shut all of the birds up in the mobile coupe right there these roosters are really being hard on this hen and we've got to get her separated So today we're going to talk to you guys a little bit about what to do when you have a chicken in your flock that gets picked on by the other chickens and often times guys this ends up in a not so good outcome we're going to try and save this chicken's life today come along and we'll talk a little bit about what to do when you have a chicken that's taking a lot of pecking from other chickens in your [Music] CP all right guys welcome back to Stony Ridge Farm Channel this is your first time your 50 Billy million jillion time hit that like button subscribe to the channel love to have you back we're on 150 acre first generation cattle farm here cattle chickens pigs coming soon this is a first generation farm with every first generation Farm or if you're a first generation or firsttime chicken owner you may not know what the heck to do when you have a hin or a rooster or a chicken in your flock that's getting picked on that's getting pecked on that is experiencing Trauma from other hens and other chickens being really really rough on it over here we have a chicken that is doing horrible so this chicken developed a limp for some reason it's an American Bree or American breast chicken uh it's developed a limp that limp has caused it to be a little bit lame and it's walking through the field right here where the chickens are able to roam and the bigger chickens are pecking on it and picking on it and beating the snot out of it basically what we've got to do and I'm going to catch this chicken I'm going to show you she looks really really bad right now now we're going to put her in to a smaller Coupe which I call the chicku it's basically a chicken ICU it's kind of a rescue for these birds that are getting pecked on let me tell you a little bit about the CPE scenario here real quick and if you want to fast forward just fast forward through to where I T tell you what to do with the uh sick chicken but here's what we've got so this is our mobile Coupe it's called The Egg Mobile I took this cou I built it from scratch out of an old hay wagon we ran the boards on The Sawmill right here off the Farm we actually cut the trees we M the boards and we built the coupe in two days it has a pretty cool setup called a rollout Nest box stay tuned for a future video and actually at the end of this video I'll do a video completely about how I built this Coupe this was not I guess an original idea but it is an original concept nobody else has a coupe like this if you want to build one like this you can follow my directions and build yourself one this is Premier 1 poultry netting right here and it's electrified poultry netting it's what keeps the chickens safe from predators foxes and stuff like that we had over a 100 chickens get killed last year by invasive foxes I have seen no sign of a fox or any sort of predator on the farm in the last I guess eight months or so so I'm not really worried too much about these chickens now that they've grown up to be adults I'm not really too worried about them being attacked by Predators we're going to do a video here very soon moving this out to the pasture the Egg Mobile follows behind the cattle and when the cattle move to a different spot we move the Egg Mobile in and let those chickens scratch through the manure and it saves us on food and it saves us on fertilizer so the cows and the chickens work hand in hand and fertilize our pasture it's pretty cool it's a symbiotic relationship between the garden the honeybees the chickens everything works together on the farm it's a moving Farm pretty cool stuff now without further Ado let's go ahead and catch this chicken she's going to be very tough to catch she's very skittish the easy way to catch a chicken in this Premier 1 poultry netting is to run the chicken towards the net and she'll try to dive towards it and we will be able to catch her we're going to put her in chicken ICU and we'll take you over there and show you chicken ICU in just a second so now you get the laugh as I try to catch this chicken be very very quiet the electricity has turned off of this fence I don't want this chicken to endure her any more pain it might be a little tough to catch her a way to catch a chicken is with your hands down low and we want her to run into the wire run through the wire run through the wire run through the wire it's like football practice right there you go girl go into the wire there she is okay I know I know it's okay I promise it's okay poor little girl so let's show you what's happened to this hen she has been pecked so hard on her head that l literally skin is missing from her she's been in distress she's lost weight her color is not good and we've got to take her and put her in a better place it's okay girl this happens guys it's called a pecking order and it happens it even happens in your Elementary School which is pretty sad so let's take her over and show you the chicken ICU welcome to the chicken ICU this is the first Coupe that I built on the farm and it's not a mobile Coupe this CPE is close to the Garden so that we can throw veggies that are bad out of the garden and into the chicken coop and what we're going to do is release her right into this Coop there are two more birds in here you would not want to release this chicken in with five or 10 more Birds because they're just going to pick on her some more so we've got to keep an eye on her for the next few weeks or next few days especially to make sure that she doesn't get pecked by these chickens they will pick on each other and it's so horrible but that's just part of nature here so let's open up the C and set her into her new home all right you're in a new better place okay it's a better place you got to heal up and get better yeah good girl good girl now you'll see she's being introduced to the new chickens and they're not pecking on her yet we're going to keep an eye on that that white chicken that you you see right there is what this chicken is supposed to look like you can see she's lost a lot of weight and she just looks pretty raggedy hopefully this all works out I may have to take the other two birds out of here to keep them from picking on her so we'll keep an eye on this and all I have to do is basically open the Cee door and those other two birds will come out that chicken was not clean at all be sure when you're handling your chickens that you wash your hands really good it's definitely a high salmonella risk that's what's in chicken and that's what can get you sick if I were to rub my eyes I could get pink eye or something like that potentially so that's what I do when it comes to a chicken getting picked on by other chickens You Hear The Roosters there's probably 40 roosters in this group and there's about 70 full grown chickens in that coup the next video you'll probably see if you haven't already seen it will be hooking to this and we're going to pull it out into the pasture and show you how that all works again if you have a chicken that it's being pecked on and picked on you've got to separate it do not separate it with out a friend okay if it's a hin a small hin put another small hin with it just like we had over there if it's a rooster and it's being picked on often times the end for that rooster will be the frying pan I hate to say that but that often times is the end if you can react to this quickly you can save the chicken will that hen ever ever be able to come back in and mix with this group of chickens the answer is probably not so if you have this issue if you have this problem and you've got to separate a hen be sure you separate it don't isolate it don't put it alone because it will die of loneliness pretty much Guys these are animals birds of a feather flock together these chickens flock together they're flock animals and you don't want to have just one it's not a parakeet okay so hopefully you guys have learned a little bit here today on the Stony Rich Farm that's what we do when we have to isolate a chicken that's being pecked on and picked on it's a horrible thing but it is part of nature even my cattle have a hierarchy in their herd and some cows push other cows around more even donkeys horses they bite each other they kick each other they'll hurt each other goats also any type of farm animal is going to have a pecking order thank you guys so much hit that like button subscribe to the channel if you have any further questions please post them down there and I'd love to have you back here on farm with me it's a great time here on the Stony Ridge see you next time cue the [Music] chicken learning to Crow and ain't got Wings you get my foot out dude why when I get a chicken in my hand why does this have to get tangled up