Crazy Dominique Rooster picking on hen eating her feathers!

[zatsdeb]

My Dominique Rooster is running around, chasing the Light colored hens, jumping on them and pulling out their feathers from their necks and eating the feathers!!
He is 4 months old, and acting crazy! He singles out the light colored hens, I have about 60 hens!!!
he leaves the others alone. Just the white, and light colored hens.

 

[smom1976]

he likes blonds LOL

 

[zatsdeb]

he might be dinner if he keeps it up!
He is nice to everyone, and people, but not those light hens!!!!!

 

[Eggseronious]

He will finally get tired of those bleached blonds. Just wait till he tries that on a Red ...omg

 

[zatsdeb]

well, I thought maybe he was just being weird for a day cause he didn't do it all day yesterday, but today he is right back at it. He seems to single out my brown and white hen, I think she is EE hen.
I have 2 the same but he goes after just 1. And he still is picking the feathers off her neck and eating them.
I have never heard of this, I have asked all the old timers I know.
I always wanted a dominique and now that I have only 1, and it is a rooster, I am afraid that he maybe not be around for long, my husband is ready to put him in the frying pan.

 

[fivebigreds]

The feathers may just be loose anyway and coming off in his beak. The light color hens may be the ones that gave in to him first and his brain has associated them with mateing.

 

[Sahara]

Recently I brought home two new hens and introduced them to the flock slowly and for whatever reason my rooster did not like the white hen. He attacked her every chance he got. The other hen, which was brown, he didn't bother.