kendra1985
Hatching
- Jul 13, 2023
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We have 4.5 month chickens raised together from chick and ended up with 2 roosters. We recently re-homed one, which happened to be our dominant rooster. We thought the other rooster would be a good fit, but now he’s not letting the hens out of the coop or mounting them right when they come out so they go back in. Is this normal behavior for establishing dominance or will this be an on-going behavior? Now I’m wondering if we kept the wrong rooster.
Edit to add: because he was the submissive rooster, we didn’t see this behavior from him before. So maybe he is just trying to figure things out and going crazy with this new “power and freedom”..
Edit to add: because he was the submissive rooster, we didn’t see this behavior from him before. So maybe he is just trying to figure things out and going crazy with this new “power and freedom”..
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