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    Hen keeps trying to protect me from mean rooster

    I think you were exactly right! Yesterday a different hen was limping so I grabbed her to see what's wrong... she was unhappy about being picked up, and the rooster came flying, flapping and kicking -- TOTALLY different from the earlier behavior, where he would jump at my ankle and bite my pant...
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    Hen keeps trying to protect me from mean rooster

    I wish I could! I don't really have space for a breeding program, but I wonder how much of this hen's behavior is biological and how much is due to the flock's social structure.
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    Hen keeps trying to protect me from mean rooster

    Will this teach him to ignore all humans, or just me? I generally dislike the "carry the rooster around like a football" approach because that doesn't stop him from attacking new visitors. But maybe if I let my hen keep walluping him, he will learn not to be aggressive to any human.
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    Hen keeps trying to protect me from mean rooster

    That's the weirdest thing! I would not have been surprised to see my dominant hen take on the rooster, but this one is really low on the pecking order and normally gets picked on by the others. Crazy.
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    Hen keeps trying to protect me from mean rooster

    Oh, that's funny! My rooster is the only male and he has 8 females to mate with so he doesn't need me. Most of the time he either ignores me or runs away from me, but recently he has been acting up. I hope he grows out of it or the hen teaches him a lesson. I know chickens don't understand good...
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    Hen keeps trying to protect me from mean rooster

    Is he just resting there like that?? My rooster is not so polite... he comes at me with his neck puffed up and jumps at my foot. It doesn't hurt because he is little, but it is bad manners.
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    Hen keeps trying to protect me from mean rooster

    She is a good girl for sure :love I never gave the rooster much attention as a chick. He was always sort of scared of me. I am in the city, but the rooster is not that loud compared to all the other noise in the neighborhood (in my opinion!). I can barely hear him from inside the house. My...
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    Hen keeps trying to protect me from mean rooster

    Yes the male stops after the female pecks him (but then he forgets and tries it again the next day). He is a bantam and she is a saipan. I think aggressive males can be fixed, but it takes a lot of patience. Maybe my hen can do it for me :-) Here she is wailing on him for getting too close to...
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    Hen keeps trying to protect me from mean rooster

    My 11 month old rooster recently developed a bad attitude and started attacking my ankles. But every time he attacks, one of my hens (same age, they grew up together) runs over and starts pecking his head. It is surprising because she is normally one of the wimpier girls in the flock. Normally...
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