MamaFox78
Songster
I came out to the coop and discovered two of my sweet Brahma hens are missing big patches of neck feathers!! (Technically I guess they're pullets, they turn 1 in July). This is Hennifer Lopez, and her twin Hennifer Aniston looks the same.
About half a dozen of my 17 girls have huge patches of missing back feathers, and I know it's because of my Brahma cockerel of the same age, Cocky Balboa. He's aggressive with them, often mounting them non-consensually, and aggressive with me and the kids. He doesn't come after me after I set him straight (grabbed him by the feet and held him upside down) but he does chase and attack my 7 & 8yo kids, which is not ok with me. I'm pretty sure he killed one of my hens and my little Silkie rooster, and injured another hen's neck while raping her (it was awful, I saw it). I'm planning to cull him asap, because he's only gotten worse with age.
But I don't know if he did this to the Hennifers, or if it could have been something else? Has anyone else seen this before??
About half a dozen of my 17 girls have huge patches of missing back feathers, and I know it's because of my Brahma cockerel of the same age, Cocky Balboa. He's aggressive with them, often mounting them non-consensually, and aggressive with me and the kids. He doesn't come after me after I set him straight (grabbed him by the feet and held him upside down) but he does chase and attack my 7 & 8yo kids, which is not ok with me. I'm pretty sure he killed one of my hens and my little Silkie rooster, and injured another hen's neck while raping her (it was awful, I saw it). I'm planning to cull him asap, because he's only gotten worse with age.
But I don't know if he did this to the Hennifers, or if it could have been something else? Has anyone else seen this before??