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Thank you for your response @NCMountainBear ... We may have found a local home for this boy. :)

I will, for sure! Thank you.

You're spot on, and that is why I have made this sad decision. Thank you for your story.

I have a one-year-old Speckled Sussex Rooster. He was supposed to be a hen, but then he began to crow. He's a pretty good rooster (I think - ?). He watches over my girls, he finds them food, he watches for hawks, etc. However, he's a randy boy and my six hens are looking pretty stressed and...

I know I posted this ages ago; I'm sorry I dropped off my own question! In the end, we decided it's a pecking-order issue and we've elected to stay out of it. We are, however, considering removing the two perches and installing one long one. Thank you for your responses!

One of my RIRs, Big Red, 8 months old and at the bottom of the pecking order, refuses to get on the perch at night. Big Red and the roo pal around during the day ... I think she's his regular girlfriend, but he roosts with the older hens on the front perch to maintain his status, I assume. Big...

No ... that's a plant trailing down the mantle. :)

From my step-dad ... his daughter, who also raises chickens, got his brother.

We Googled it when our roo began mating the hens. Now we crack a lot of cloaca jokes in our house.

Yeah ... all the space in the world and chickens still want to be on someone else's property. For us, time and consistent redirection helped. We sit on about 1/2 an acre. It took some chicken wire that seems to encourage them in another direction and some intimidation with bamboo poles to...

Great names!

Wheaten Ameraucana - Blondie Blue Laced Wyandotte - Bluebird Austalorp - Blackie (she was Baby Blackie until Big Blackie passed) Barnvelder - Brownie Speckled English Sussex - Speckman (he was Speckles until we realized he was a roo, not a hen) 2@RIR - Big Red and Little Red We're super-creative.

Thank you! We think he's a handsome boy, too.

Thank you! We have an Ameraucana, a Blue-Laced Wyandotte, an Australorp, a Barnvelder and two Rhode Island Reds. Our roo is a Speckled English Sussex.

Thanks! We hope they remain happy with him, too!