Birds Killing Each Other

bobbi-j

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After further thought I remembered a similar happening from about 1 1/2 weeks ago. I moved our 14 meat turkeys and 39 Cornish Cross chicks out of confinement into a bigger area where they had more space (actually still in confinement but lots more room). Within the next few days the turkeys literally started eating the chicks. Thankfully they didn't kill any and the stage passed, but one had its wing eaten down to the bones and two others got beaten up, although not THAT bad. So maybe it has something to do with a new environment or more space?🤔
In all my years of raising chickens, I have never had them attack and kill each other after being introduced to a larger area. If anything, it has alleviated pecking and bullying problems. I agree that you need to separate each species.
 

Arosie

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Here's the pen and some of the birds. My idea was to raise them all together so they would get along. I heard guineas don't get along with chickens, but so far mine have gotten along well with the pullets. Unfortunately, I don't have the room to separate the turkeys out. I can let the hens out into the yard after they lay their eggs in the morning (with the assurance that they'll stick around), but I don't dare to do that with the young birds. So far I haven't had any other major aggressive behaviors going on with the birds since that happened.
 
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