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Update to what ended up happening- We separated him for over a year. He is now 2+ years old. He will try to kill a hen still that either fights him or runs away from him. Luckily the three hens he was raised with and are the same age "accommodate" him and he acts like the perfect rooster with...

Jane, in the small bird in this photo to show her size better. She has also raised all of our birds for the past 3 years as day-old chicks. She is smart and a great mother and is always healthy.

We have had Red Star, Oppingtons, Eggers, Legbars, etc. Our one hen, Jane, that found us four years ago is being the hardiest of all the birds we've had. We would like more of her breed/type. What am I looking for and can I find it? Thanks for help! Christina

So he has been separated all day and this evening I put the 2 dominant hens in with him for the night and they were bossing him around right away. So... THANK YOU ALL so much. I did NOT know what to do and your advice was (once again) AWsome! Now back to bed!!

Sorry, I am in bed doing this on my phone....flu. Here it goes again - left and right side of beak.

He is now separated. Presently the plan is to keep him separated through spring possibly a year but all the while looking for another home for him.

Left and right...

He is an Easter Egger. I am in the north Atlanta/Ga area and I will drive an hour to a good new home!!

We do not need a rooster but I don't think re-homing him is possible. So I will work on separating him. His beak is not scissored.

He does not attack the two dominant 2 year old hens. They do peck him. I had not thought about separating him. Do I put the two dominate hens with him for a year or just put him alone? He would been right next to everyone in a run.

One of the chicks that we ordered through the mail turned out to be a roo. This is (amazingly) the first time this has happened to us out of 14 chicks throughout the years of buying day-old sexed chicks. He is 6 months old and "breeding" everyone.... "___" because it is chicken rape to some of...

Update- She made a full recovery from this flystrike. All of your help made it possible too. Thanks for the great help!

An update on this hen now that a few years have passed. She, Jane, has been the best hen of all. She is the smartest and has been a great mother to 3 separate groups of day-old chicks. So glad she found us. I'd love to have a flock of her smart healthy breed@