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    Roosters separated from hens at night

    Hi everyone and thank you for keeping this forum. I am a first time chicken keeper and have three Bantam roosters that are 11 weeks old and 1 bantam hen and 4 bigger black type hens same age but twice as big not sure what they are. The roosters are starting to beat each other up in the coop not...
  2. ChickenLoverTrin

    UPDATE ON LOSING FEATHERS!!!

    Hi all, In one of my previous posts, my frizzles lost a heap of feathers, but my silkie was unaffected. We came down to the conclusion of rooster wear but... we put a camera up in their coop, and found out that the rooster was attacking them, and ripping their feathers out! Not to mention, he...
  3. E

    7 Rooter and 4 hens - need advice on how to handle this

    Got them as 1 day old chicks at the beginning of March this year. They are a little over 4 months old now but have been crowing since less than 3mo old. The chickens were unsexed for the most part and I ended up with 7 roosters and 4 hens. Coop politics are a bit rough. Lots of rooster on...
  4. Brink

    Rooster is nice to everyone, except my husband.

    Hey y'all! So I have a rooster. I didn't raise him from a baby but he was given to me and I was told he was about eight to nine months old at the time. So he is estimated to be about nine to tenish months old now. I was worried he was going to be aggressive but he was actually more curious and...
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    • advice aggresive help appreciated rooster problems singled out
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    • Forum: Managing Your Flock
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    Permanently split or no?

    Still new to chickens here and looking for some advice. We’re considering a bachelor flock for our six boys 😱 Different sizes, the little guys leave the big girls alone and (most of) the big guys leave the small girls alone. We have one Brahma rooster crushing badly on a 1lb bantam hen but...
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    • antisocial chicken bachelor flock feather loss help over mating rooster problems too many roosters
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    • Forum: Managing Your Flock
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    Rooster Overmating Hens

    Hi! I have a beautiful 3 year old RIR rooster who is overmating 4 of his hens very badly. He has been the best roo for so long, what is causing him to do this so suddenly and how do I make him stop?? Does anybody have any suggestions on what to do about it? The hens are so stressed they're not...
  7. adriayna

    Rooster too Aggressive with Hens - Advice sought

    Hi all, I've had a number of roosters over the years. I've never had one that was like the one I currently have. He's fine with people, can be picked up, etc. He's a patridge cochin rooster, just over 1 year old. But he's horrible with the girls. We have 11 girls in the flock; most of the...
  8. Lazy Farmer

    Rooster Rooster Rooster

    If you buy a dog, tie him to a tree and occasionally interact with him, he will not be as obedient as your neighbor's dog who sits, stays, rolls over, fetches and most of all.. a true companion. But the difference is your neighbor plays and interacts with their doggy a lot. Roosters are no...
  9. kitkatinacoop

    I got a Rooster in my coop, apparently!

    When I first got my chicks, I wanted only girls. However it turns out that one of the pullets that I got was a boy! He has crowed for a bit, however I was not fully aware that he was a boy as my husband has a game that the save noise is a rooster crowing, and then we have neighbors with them as...
  10. M

    Rehoming a rooster?.. New to chickens

    Hi all, So my son brought home a rooster from school that they hatched in science class. We are planning on getting a few hens to be with him. my problem is that we live in a city where you aren't technically supposed to have chickens and I am afraid that the rooster's crowing when he gets a...
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