Rooster dislikes certain colored hens?

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centrarchid said:
Classic Harem Master. I see that routinely with my free-range flocks. Where you have ample room, those harem master roosters are the ones that provide protection for hens and young. The negatives of the arrangement can be controlled by dispersing locations where they can eat and just hang out (loaf). If area tight, then either only one or get the standard dead head rooster that is nice to all hens.

Damage to eyes by rooster unusual, very. Are you certain eye damage did not occur first, and then rooster attacks hen?
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You bring up a good point. My gold lace polish has never shown any aggression toward ANY of my other chickens. One of my birds sprained it's wing and when he noticed the injury at roost time he charged after it like I'd never seen him do before. I swiftly caught the injured chicken and put it in it's own cage to recover. But what I'm getting at is that injuries trigger something in chickens and will turn the nicest of birds into attackers.
 
centrarchid said:
Classic Harem Master. I see that routinely with my free-range flocks. Where you have ample room, those harem master roosters are the ones that provide protection for hens and young. The negatives of the arrangement can be controlled by dispersing locations where they can eat and just hang out (loaf). If area tight, then either only one or get the standard dead head rooster that is nice to all hens.

Damage to eyes by rooster unusual, very. Are you certain eye damage did not occur first, and then rooster attacks hen?
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I saw multiple smaller attacks and she didn't have any injuries. She would just squat for him while he aggressively pecked at her head never attempting to mate with her. She was middle of the flock in regards to pecking order, I never saw another hen pecking at her, only the rooster in question. She was the favorite hen of another rooster that had recently went to the crock pot. Those 2 were always together. I found her huddled under an over hang with her head in the corner.
 
Chicken5555 said:
I've been wondering the same things lately. I have a gold laced Polish rooster that will ONLY mate with black hens. He won't mate with my gold lace Polish hens (they came from a different source so not related). I want him to mate with his own breed (to make more gold laced chickens lol) but he is so particular that when I removed the black hens he tried to mate a dark brown BBred bantam instead of the gold laced his own size!

My wheaten Ameraucana prefers the buff color easter egger hens, but he will mate the light brown ones too.
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Maybe the polish hens do not lay eggs?My rooster tends to mate the hens who lay more often,but will mate non laying hens.
 
Well they still are productive,as long as the hen is laying no matter how often or frequently,the rooster will continue to mate her.I have an old eatser egger who you might get an egg from every other day,she will squat for him,and he will mate her.
 

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