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    Three weeks on and they still haven't integrated

    The coop is 16 square foot. they don't spend any time in it at all during the day except to lay eggs and to sleep in at night. youngsters have their own feeder and drinker and they eat and drink at leisure. There are a number of roosts set up too and they can hide behind a number of things if...
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    Three weeks on and they still haven't integrated

    Long story short. I had a flock of 4 hens and a rooster. A hen died and I got 2 young pullets which i kept separate from the others but within vision and i would let them freerange together daily (sometimes for an hour, sometimes for significantly longer). Three weeks ago when the pullets were...
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    Introducing new pullets

    I know that this subject has been done to death but it is new for me. I have a small flock consisting of a Maltese black rooster (indigenous to my country hence pretty much unknown elsewhere), a golden comet (head hen) and two light sussex (originally 3 but 1 died in April). I got a light sussex...
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    Automatic door recommendation

    I have one from Hentronix in the UK. My coop door is a sliding one and there aren't many available on the market. i had a host of problems with it for a number of months but it all boiled down to the door snagging onto the bottom rail. I made a new rail with a hollowed-out bottom so that any...
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    Aggressive rooster

    Update. Things are back to normal. I kept him separate for 6 days, letting him free range with the hens under supervision. She kept using me as a shield. Last Friday I realised that there was a sort of uncomfortable truce so I didn't separate him when they went back into the run. She panicked...
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    So I've got a nasty rooster on my hands...

    I had a similar situation last week. My rooster very suddenly became really nasty to the dominant hen who was usually his buddy. I knocked up a quick coop for him out of a wooden box and put him in it. Since it was rather small i still let him free range with the hens whenever I was present...
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    Aggressive rooster

    Well, for 2 hours it's not possible but for half an hour or so yes I can. Sunset is at 6pm at the moment and i usually get to where they are at about 5.
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    Aggressive rooster

    When i put her in the nest box he managed to get close enough to peck her head. She has lost the feathers around her comb and her comb is a little bit bloody (albeit dried blood). She even crammed herself underneath the feeder and he had a go at her
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    Aggressive rooster

    Great. The box i rigged up has a perch she can roost on and a small nesting area too. Should be pretty comfortable. Right now the rooster is in it. I'll put her in it tonight.
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    Aggressive rooster

    Thanks. Will try that. So, separating him from the flock was a bad idea after all. I'll separate her. Shall i let them free-range together though?
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    Aggressive rooster

    Thanks @Patriot1672 . So would you suggest isolating the hen and keep him in the main coop with the other hens? I just cannot allow him to beat her up the way he is. Another thing I cannot quite understand is that they were buddies until a few days ago. When roosting, they would be the first to...
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    Hello from Malta

    I wrote a detailed account of what happened in this link https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/aggressive-rooster.1352931/
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    Hello from Malta

    I put a detailed account of what happened in the behaviour section. Well i would say that he's trying to mate but she's not allowing him but she is suddenly very scared of him and is crouching down and hiding her head in a corner. She is also coming to me and my dad for solace even though she...
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    Hello from Malta

    Both approximately the same age. Just over 1 year old i would guess.
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    Aggressive rooster

    Hi. I have a small flock of 3 sussex hens (or perhaps sussex cross breeds), a golden comet hen and a Maltese black rooster (pretty rare breed and endemic to Malta (where I come from)). They have lived in harmony since the end of May when I got them as pullets. The golden comet quickly placed...
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