HELP!! My hens are injured!

[JoePa]

Why do you have roosters anyway - I've raised chickens for years and never had a rooster - if I want new chicks I buy them from a hachery - a lot simplier -

 

[casportpony]

Why do you have roosters anyway - I've raised chickens for years and never had a rooster - if I want new chicks I buy them from a hachery - a lot simplier -

My roosters watch over their hens and alert them when predators are near. I can't imagine not having roosters...

 

[mariaschickens]

My roosters watch over their hens and alert them when predators are near. I can't imagine not having roosters...

yes, that is exactly why i have my roos, they help keep my flock safe! Plus, i like to know where my chicks come from, instead of buying them from somewhere else.

 

[mariaschickens]

Hi, I have had a similar problem in the past, and after time & patience discovered that a rather enthusiastic & clumsy young cockerel's spurs were indeed the problem. I think if you remove the cockerel, or de-spur him you will probably help resolve the problem. Of course there is also the possibility that the claws need trimming. I have one beautiful white cockerel, Beekist, whose claws grow incredibly fast, and who funnily enough has an extra back claw on both feet! Whatever you decide to try - good luck!

thanks for the advice. I think that my roo needs a good toenail trimming!

 

[gg706]

How many roos to hens do you have?

 

[mariaschickens]

How many roos to hens do you have?

right now i have way too many roos , i have 4 roos and 16 hens

 

[gg706]

Maybe competition over mating, and the mating is hurried and careless. I would get rid of some roosters. Your hens will get really stressed out being over mated. Not a good situation for them at all.

 

[NovaAman]

Can you make a bachelor pad and pen? You have enough hens barely for 2 roosters, not 4. Not unless you have 4 pens and coops and they are separated into breeding groups.

Toenails can be a problem. Keep them trimmed, check your hens over more often as long as you have so many cockerels. You are going to have ninja rapist roosters from your lower roos. Your hens end up over mated. Stress occurs, now they'll be more suseptible to illness. They're more likely to not lay egg because of the stress, well, lay poorly. Naked backs...

I'd rid myself of 2 ASAP.

 

[ChiChiLady]

Hi
I have two ladies with large gashes under there wings. very similar to the injury described in the beginning of this thread. I have cleaned and sewed them up, and left a small hole at the bottom of the gash for draining in case any infection occurs.

How can I tell if this is my clumsy very young roo or the chicken hawk that has been pestering my folk for the past week???

I have two roos and the younger beta one is clumsy and big, not very large spurs but could have longer toe nails. I'll check his feet tomorrow.

I would like to keep this rooster for breading he is a handsome Chantecler. I also need roos to keep predators a bit at bay. Does any one have experience with the little hen jackets? Do they work? I can't put them on all twenty of my lady's but I can put them on the two girls that are healing up.
Thanks a bunch

 

[ChiChiLady]

Bumping thread up again, just trying to get some feed back on this question.

I have two ladies with large gashes under there wings. very similar to the injury described in the beginning of this thread. I have cleaned and sewed them up, and left a small hole at the bottom of the gash for draining in case any infection occurs.

How can I tell if this is my clumsy very young roo or the chicken hawk that has been pestering my folk for the past week???
Thanks