Our first rooster was a Rhode Island Red...my husband had a special name for him; started with a big A. MEAN bird! Beautiful and never lost any hens to foxes, hawks, etc with him around, but he would come after anyone in the yard with all his force to the point where we would carry around a...
I add new things to my chicken pens every week as we only let them out in the yard when we can directly supervise them since a recent hawk attack. These include pine boughs I cut from the woods, large chunks of logs from the woodpile and chicken kongs- plastic bottles with holes poked through...
We had a hawk attack last weekend and our roo (brown leghorn) ran & hid under our coop! Lot of help he was! Our former rooster "Big Red" (RI Red) would have defended his girls until the ends of the world. We didn't loose anyone this time around, but we were lucky it was a juvie hawk. Guess it...
Lou sleeps in the coop with our chickens actually. They get along very well and he protects them...won't go in the pen for tne night until all his buddies are in. We got him and another turkey (Thelma and Louise...Louise started strutting, hence Lou) at the same time as the chickens and raised...