Gardenalex
Chirping
- Sep 24, 2015
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I am desperated!!!
I had never luck with roos since i started with chickens in April 2015. They were just rude to my hens, raped them, chased them and they were afraid of them.
At the moment i still have a lot of young males, cause i let my hens hatch there own chicks naturally. I just got 2 hens, but more than 35 males - jep unbelievable but true. I know that there is nearly no hope of finding in this group a aceptable roo, because the father of all of them was awful, attacked me at the end (I sent some already to my fridge, and the plan is all of them!).
So I got with a lot of hope a Swedisch Flower male from a friend of my German chicken forum. She could not keep him, and I fell in love with him.
He is with us since 2 month. At the start he was a very calm, quiet und polite roo. But since two weeks I am starting to get desperated. I am now really attachted to him but over night he started chasing my Orpington hen. He realized that she is stronger than him, so he chased here, finding him winning over her. At that point he changed. I recognized that some of my hens are hiding in bushes and in one of my greenhhouses, that my molting hen jumped on me when she sees him, that some of my hens, that were forced to run from his desires are screaming very loudly, and that my Orpington is raped every morning and more times over the day since two weeks.
Since that he began starting to crow incredibly often guessing 150 times a day.
He is the first one on the pole, ignoring that all of his girls are still walking around. That is around 4 P.M., then he starts crowing some time at 10 P.M, goes futher on at 12 P.M., 2. A.M., and from 4 A.M to 8 A.M he crows permanently.
I have no idea what to do with him. I would accept the crowing but not his rudeness to the hens.
Yesterday I had to seperate him in a chicken tractor to save one of my Welsumers from him. She was screaming and he after her, over the front and the second garden.
I can not undertstand that. He was calm, he was sweet, and now there is nothing left from that.
He even picks after my molting hen, trying even to rape her, picks away the smaller chicks from food.
I am worried. We are now in December, but what will he do in sping??
He is now six month old.
Perhaps you can give me an advice! Please...
I had never luck with roos since i started with chickens in April 2015. They were just rude to my hens, raped them, chased them and they were afraid of them.
At the moment i still have a lot of young males, cause i let my hens hatch there own chicks naturally. I just got 2 hens, but more than 35 males - jep unbelievable but true. I know that there is nearly no hope of finding in this group a aceptable roo, because the father of all of them was awful, attacked me at the end (I sent some already to my fridge, and the plan is all of them!).
So I got with a lot of hope a Swedisch Flower male from a friend of my German chicken forum. She could not keep him, and I fell in love with him.
He is with us since 2 month. At the start he was a very calm, quiet und polite roo. But since two weeks I am starting to get desperated. I am now really attachted to him but over night he started chasing my Orpington hen. He realized that she is stronger than him, so he chased here, finding him winning over her. At that point he changed. I recognized that some of my hens are hiding in bushes and in one of my greenhhouses, that my molting hen jumped on me when she sees him, that some of my hens, that were forced to run from his desires are screaming very loudly, and that my Orpington is raped every morning and more times over the day since two weeks.
Since that he began starting to crow incredibly often guessing 150 times a day.
He is the first one on the pole, ignoring that all of his girls are still walking around. That is around 4 P.M., then he starts crowing some time at 10 P.M, goes futher on at 12 P.M., 2. A.M., and from 4 A.M to 8 A.M he crows permanently.
I have no idea what to do with him. I would accept the crowing but not his rudeness to the hens.
Yesterday I had to seperate him in a chicken tractor to save one of my Welsumers from him. She was screaming and he after her, over the front and the second garden.
I can not undertstand that. He was calm, he was sweet, and now there is nothing left from that.
He even picks after my molting hen, trying even to rape her, picks away the smaller chicks from food.
I am worried. We are now in December, but what will he do in sping??
He is now six month old.
Perhaps you can give me an advice! Please...
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