Thank you for the info! He is doing better. These hens and roo were all born and raised together, so they are familiar. However, he is not a gentle rooster with his ladies by any means (ie no courting, just taking). If the head hen is also the broody hen (they're all only 6 months old, but I...
I came home this afternoon to find my rooster in fairly bad shape. My boyfriend said he was attacked by his 8 hens. They had torn out most of his tail and rear feather and he was bleeding quite a bit. I found a pecked out egg in the coop and we do have one broody (albeit very young hen), but...