This rooster is good to us but not to these certain hens - he leaves the youngest ones alone. I hate getting rid of him. He was a rescue rooster left as a pullet on a golf course in the rain
How do you know when he is out of that phase? They sleep together - I am pushing my husband to build another coop - but in the morning he wakes and starts at them so I either let him out alone - sometimes two go out with him but want back in shortly then on alternate days I let all but him...
I have 8 chickens.
3 hens are nearly 5 yrs old, 4 are four years old and then a rooster who is a year old. I raised the hens but the rooster I found as a half grown chicken on a golf course. Thought he was a hen at first, non descript with no comb and white speckled. I had to introduce...
I really need help with my rooster. He is fine with us but he is upsetting the hens. He picks on two. One is is the sweetest buff orpington and she now waits til they all leave the coop and dashes to the front of the house and stays til night. I want to get another coop for her and the other...
I have one rooster and 7 hens. I lost two recently The hens are older and grew up together and the rooster is only a yr old. But I have the same thing - one of my hens avoids him by staying in the front yard and won't go in right away. It was better when there were 9 hens. I thought we...
Hi,
I just signed up. I have had chickens for nearly five years now. I'm down to eight chickens - one rooster and seven hens. My rooster is a rescue rooster that was abandoned as a pullet on a golf course far from any agriculture. The hens are 3 to 4 and a half years old. I have a baird...