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post #11 of 13
6/16/12 at 5:43pm

It might be technique on the hens part, it might they don't submit as much as they did.  Or is it he's with the younger ones more.  And I don't believe my rooster is causing enough discourse to lower the egg production either. 

I don't get better with age, only more confused(ing).

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I don't get better with age, only more confused(ing).

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post #12 of 13
6/18/12 at 1:25pm
Thread Starter 

Well he did it again tonight. This time he flapped his wings and put his feet up to me.

 

My daughter will not let me .... get rid of him so I am going to make a smaller pen for jsut him.

 

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3 - Buff Orpington, 2- Black Australorp, 2- Delaware, 1- OrphingtonX and a unknown rooster. 
Learning as we go !!

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3 - Buff Orpington, 2- Black Australorp, 2- Delaware, 1- OrphingtonX and a unknown rooster. 
Learning as we go !!

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post #13 of 13
6/19/12 at 9:44am

Yeah, roosters have to earn their keep as much as the hens do.  They just do it in a different way than laying eggs.  If he is harming and harassing the flock instead of protecting it and keeping harmony, then get rid of him.  Your girls work way too hard for you to deserve that kind of treatment.

"It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!"
Joey Santiago
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"It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!"
Joey Santiago
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