Cockerel obsessed with hen

[Smeeker082]

I have had my 2 hens for two years, this spring I hatched eggs and ended up with 3 cockerels and 2 pullets. Two of the cockerels turned nasty and met their end leaving me with 1 barred rock cockerel and 2 pullets. The have been with my hens, who were not happy with this at all. Suddenly Stevie my cockerel has become obsessed with Donna the dominant hen. He chases her down and is violent in his mating. She resists and runs. He won't back down. She's disheveled and scared. She runs off into the tree line and hides. I'm assuming this is a dominance thing but I'm afraid he's going to kill her or she will die from being so stressed in this heat. Anyone with any advice or insight? Thanks

 

[Junochick]

My honest opinion is freezer camp, he needs to go if your worried he will kill her.

 

[chickens really]

You don't have enough Hens...Young Cockerels have no manners when it comes to your Hens...He has picked her as his favourite.....If you don't really need that Rooster?...I would get rid of him or separate till he matures and has better control of himself with the ladies....

 

[Top Rooster]

It's not a lack of hens it's the fact she is not submitting to his dominance I had the same thing happen to my hen. I had 12 hens that for the most part submitted to him except one she was a broody mama and had chicks to raise and the last thing she wanted was to be mated or pushed down in the pecking order, so they fought a bit she was winning in the beginning but one day I came out and he had cornered her in the coop and was mating her very aggressively, he had torn all her neck feathers out and ate one of her chicks legs, eventually she got free and ran as fast as she could away from him. But he chased her just as hard, eventually catching her again and hurting her. I killed the rooster after that.

 

[SIMZ]

If you'd like to keep him try separating him from the hens - keep them where they can see each other but he can't get to them. Young cockerels can be horrible - I have two here that I'm trying to decide what to do with .