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Thanks for all your help. My grandparents have spoken to the person who sold us the hens and rooster. He told them we have to trim all the feathers around the vent on both the hens and the rooster, and we have to trim all the way to the skin. I guess this is why some people suggest plucking...

Wow thanks. That's a lot of things to consider. Well the hens aren't broody anymore and they're moulting. I believe the main problem is they aren't trimmed enough at the back end, but the rooster could be infertile too. I don't believe the hens don't like the rooster. They follow him around...

Quote: Yeah it was a rushed job. I didn't want to take off more feathers than necessary. The risk of jabbing the hen with the scissors. The hens really don't like sitting there while I'm cutting around their back end either. Quote: The rooster has been mating quite regularly before the hens...

I have a flock of four bantam pekin/cochin hens and one rooster. They're a fluffy breed. A Christmas present from my grandparents from two years ago. Three of them just went through being broody and sat for two months before they kicked out all their eggs and I bathed them to get them off the...