Rooster "taking advantage" of hens.....normal?

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No! Remove this rooster! If you read Temple Grandin's book, Animals in Translation, it shows proof that rapist roosters are the result of bad breeding, and letting them stay with the hens will just cause more aggressive roosters. They hurt the females, and don't grow out of it because it's in their genes. Please, remove the rooster for the sake of your hens!
 
Rapist roosters go into the freezer. End of story. It really sucks waiting 6+ months to find out your rooster is a monster who doesn't respect the hens. I just had to separate a BCM roo that I was hoping to mate to make more BCM and olive eggers. I heard my easter egger screaming during feeding time, and there he was on top of her, then he want after her again and the poor bird couldn't even get up. There was no dance, he was chasing her around, grabbing her by the back of the neck while she shrieked, and forcing himself on her back. Grabbed Mr. Rapist by the feet and out he went. He's in a box by himself until freezer camp time. If he were human he'd be in the ground right now.
 
i didnt read through all of the comments, but came across this article which is both enlightening and disturbing - maybe it will help us all to understand our roosters a bit better: http://www.grandin.com/inc/animals.make.us.human.ch7.html
some of what he has to say: The rapist roosters violently attack hens and injure and even kill them. Before the 1990s there weren’t any rapist roosters. They just suddenly appeared out of the blue. First it was just one strain of roosters that had become aggressive but within a couple of years almost all strains had developed the same behavior. Nobody knows why.
 
perezjm12 said:
i didnt read through all of the comments, but came across this article which is both enlightening and disturbing - maybe it will help us all to understand our roosters a bit better: http://www.grandin.com/inc/animals.make.us.human.ch7.html
some of what he has to say: The rapist roosters violently attack hens and injure and even kill them. Before the 1990s there weren’t any rapist roosters. They just suddenly appeared out of the blue. First it was just one strain of roosters that had become aggressive but within a couple of years almost all strains had developed the same behavior. Nobody knows why.
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How would this explain the loss of the gene in landrace chickens or rare breeds like Swedish Flower hen roos?
 
FloridaChik said:
I just separated my hens from the rooster because he is "raping" them to the point where they can't bend over to eat or scratch around or anything without him there to rip feathers out and claw at them while he does his business. They never get a break from his relentless "love". They are losing feathers and are tormented. I have trimmed his spurs but he is a mating machine nevertheless. I actually didn't remove him from the pen, but put him inside a smaller pen within the bigger pen. So they can all see each other but he can't bother them. Is this normal? Should I return him to his flock? I'm not interested in raising chicks right now, but eventually. I just felt sorry for those poor girls.........

Btw, there are 9 hens. Just about all of them are laying eggs now and I have another rooster that free ranges out in the yard but is never allowed inside the pen. One's enough I figured.......

Thanks for any insight.
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FloridaChik said:
I just separated my hens from the rooster because he is "raping" them to the point where they can't bend over to eat or scratch around or anything without him there to rip feathers out and claw at them while he does his business. They never get a break from his relentless "love". They are losing feathers and are tormented. I have trimmed his spurs but he is a mating machine nevertheless. I actually didn't remove him from the pen, but put him inside a smaller pen within the bigger pen. So they can all see each other but he can't bother them. Is this normal? Should I return him to his flock? I'm not interested in raising chicks right now, but eventually. I just felt sorry for those poor girls.........

Btw, there are 9 hens. Just about all of them are laying eggs now and I have another rooster that free ranges out in the yard but is never allowed inside the pen. One's enough I figured.......

Thanks for any insight.
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I think he needs another rooster like him, I've seen roosters fight for a hen before especially when there is two roosters and a whole lot of hens but when there is a butch of roosters and one hen, they all team up a bang on it😂 so my point is he needs competition for a change
 
Our little Ameracauna rooster is far more interested in the ladies than they are of him. We separated him but all his hens except one clustered around his pen, so we let them stay together. He's the one in my avatar.
 

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