PlentifulPrairie
Songster
hi --
i have a hen that just hatched out a little flock of 4 (yayyyy!). Anyways I have my chickens around a premier1 fence and i have let my hen and her chicks live in my garage and they free range during the day. (i don't want the chicks to get attacked by my roo/shocked by the fence) Anways i have two rooster and obviously one is the non-dominate one, he is also low on the pecking line. He sometimes gets beat up by my dominant roo so i let him out and free range. However now that i have the mother hen and her babies out.. i'm having an issue where when he sees her he run and attacks her.. he isn't trying to mate her... and if so.. ah it's very odd. he pulls on her feathers and tries to attack her in the face.
i considered building another coop and having mother hen and her chicks and my non-dominate roo have their own little corner... however since he's a psycho i don't think this is going to be a thing?
what do you guys think? can i make him not attack her? what do you think he is doing? why do you think he is doing this? thoughts?
thanks
heidi
i have a hen that just hatched out a little flock of 4 (yayyyy!). Anyways I have my chickens around a premier1 fence and i have let my hen and her chicks live in my garage and they free range during the day. (i don't want the chicks to get attacked by my roo/shocked by the fence) Anways i have two rooster and obviously one is the non-dominate one, he is also low on the pecking line. He sometimes gets beat up by my dominant roo so i let him out and free range. However now that i have the mother hen and her babies out.. i'm having an issue where when he sees her he run and attacks her.. he isn't trying to mate her... and if so.. ah it's very odd. he pulls on her feathers and tries to attack her in the face.
i considered building another coop and having mother hen and her chicks and my non-dominate roo have their own little corner... however since he's a psycho i don't think this is going to be a thing?
what do you guys think? can i make him not attack her? what do you think he is doing? why do you think he is doing this? thoughts?
thanks
heidi