- Jul 6, 2007
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We took our 3 roo's as well as a friends in for processing and my daughter fell in love with this bird - the woman said it was part of a "this and that" hatching they did this spring and that she had NO idea if it was male or female, she tried in vain to convince my daughter to pick a bird she knew was a hen to keep us from having to have another bird butchered. She has a very small close to her head comb like my other hen's do and a puff on the top of it's head as well as feathered ankles which leads me to believe it might be a polish mix but I'm really not sure, she appears a few weeks smaller than my 14-16 week old ladies.
I also have a question that hopefully can be addressed here rather than creating another post. We took our 3 roo's in for processing leaving our 3 hen's (all around the 14-16 week old mark) I expected a fight for leadership and pecking order and thought now would be the best time to introduce any new birds, my friend had one roo (which I took in for processing with mine) and one hen - all were originally the same group at purchase and spent a few weeks together as chicks. She gave me her hen and I purchased "rose" in the pictures, the other hen's aren't bothering each other and they seem curious about "rose" but the other hen is being unmercifully picked on, I finally had to separate her when I found the 3 had pecked the tops of her wings bloody, that hen is a bit odd to begin with but is there any suggestions on why they are ganging up on her in particular and if I should just re-home her or is there a chance on a friendship? I've got her separated in the crate but inside the coop and then I put "rose" in with her because I didn't want the other 3 to start picking on her since the other one was unavailable. I can set them up temporarily in a separate space if I need to.



I also have a question that hopefully can be addressed here rather than creating another post. We took our 3 roo's in for processing leaving our 3 hen's (all around the 14-16 week old mark) I expected a fight for leadership and pecking order and thought now would be the best time to introduce any new birds, my friend had one roo (which I took in for processing with mine) and one hen - all were originally the same group at purchase and spent a few weeks together as chicks. She gave me her hen and I purchased "rose" in the pictures, the other hen's aren't bothering each other and they seem curious about "rose" but the other hen is being unmercifully picked on, I finally had to separate her when I found the 3 had pecked the tops of her wings bloody, that hen is a bit odd to begin with but is there any suggestions on why they are ganging up on her in particular and if I should just re-home her or is there a chance on a friendship? I've got her separated in the crate but inside the coop and then I put "rose" in with her because I didn't want the other 3 to start picking on her since the other one was unavailable. I can set them up temporarily in a separate space if I need to.