We only have a few hens (no rooster) and over the past week I've noticed one of them being very strange when I let them out of their pen in the mornings. She is the head chicken (henpecks all the others) and she will be laying almost on her side, one leg spread towards her head, the other...
A few months ago we were having a problem with a hen-pecked rooster. That problem is gone because the rooster vanished. I think he ran away because of the issues he was having with the other chickens (he hardly ever left the henhouse). Has anyone ever heard of a rooster just up and leaving...
We have 8 chickens (5 hens and 3 roosters). My mother bought the chickens on a whim. She was at hardware store, saw baby chicks and ... now we have chickens. This was about a year ago.
1 of the roosters is kind of mean (He seems to be a polish crested?). He will chase the others around...