Another cause of chickens pecking each other is the introduction of a new chicken. If you add a new member to the flock, the pecking order needs to get reshuffled, so some pecking will occur until that issue is resolved. Don't panic, just let the chickens resolve it among themselves.
âº [I or T] also start off, also start out to begin in a particular way and then change later: He started his working life as an engineer, but later became a teacher. start as sth The company started as a snow removal business with one truck, and grew from there.
Learner's definition of INITIATE. [count] : a person who is being formally accepted or who has been formally accepted as a member of a group or organization. These secrets are known only to a small group of initiates.