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    Update: my husband has culled three of the roos (one being the more handsome one and the other being the only RIR we had). The first two were culled a few weeks ago and the last two alive were fine with each other, but then the RIR started pecking at Bread (the alpha) and from what I've read...
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    He is on high alert, he is the one who crows the first, and always goes to see what the commotion is when one of the pullets lets out a distress call. I'm not going off of looks at all. As for egg laying, the pullets haven't done so yet, so I don't know about that.
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    Thank you
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    Also, do you mean docile to the girls or docile to people? They are docile towards people, and are only like this because of their drive to mate, not aggression (evident to the fact that they have been leaving the pullets alone, and they are the same age as the roosters). From what I've noticed...
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    But they just started doing this within the past few days, and I'm pretty sure it's only because of their drive for mating and the adults are the only ones who are sexually mature, whereas the pullets still have a month probably. They aren't aggressive, they are hormonally driven.
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    They only gang up on her because she and the other hen I got last year are sexually mature. The boys tend to leave the pullets alone, probably because they aren't ready to lay yet. And from what I noticed, the adult they ganged up on doesn't even fight back, she tries to run but ends up taking...
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    The best one is one of the ones that kept mounting her though
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    Ok thank you. It was a sort of spur of the moment idea. I didn't want to hole up the adults, as they have been sleeping in a shed that was modified for them before winter started (I wasn't going to have them sleep with the younger chickens until the pullets were old enough to lay), and I...
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    And when I mean the boys mating with them, I mean literally taking turns and fighting each other to mate with them. All three of my Leghorns were taking turns on my Australorpe, and my Rhode Island Red and one of the Leghorns were taking turns on the other adult hen. My girls kept getting...
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    Hello, I'm new to raising and owning chickens (hence why I joined the forum). My husband and I have fourteen chickens altogether, twelve are just over three months old and two we don't know as they were given to us by our neighbor last year. One of the adult hens, is (I believe) an Australorpe...
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