Help on gender and why a rooster from same batch is trying to kill it.

[house1917]

this is the only reason why i dont like EEs and will never have them

totally, get it. especially with all the new varieties of EEs. crested, single-combed, fibro...

i'll probably always have some of the old school EEs- bearded, muffed, willow legs, partridge pattern!

 

[BastyPutt]

Is he trying to kill it? Or is he trying to mate with it?

Very difficult to know the difference at times with a young cockerel.

Do you have any other roosters, not cockerels?

 

[Ritanigma]

My two roosters fight over hens to the point that if one hen chooses the other rooster (rooster #2) rooster #1 will attack that hen. She could even be trying to mate with him (#1), but he won't do it and just attacks her, like he is mad that she ever rejected him and mated with rooster #2.

She seems young for romance dramas, but do you think this could be part of what is going on?

Actually you may be right. I wonder. Hmmm

 

[Ritanigma]

Very difficult to know the difference at times with a young cockerel.

Do you have any other roosters, not cockerels?

Yes. An older rooster

 

[BastyPutt]

Yes. An older rooster

Typically an older rooster is going to intimidate a young cockerel and the cockerel will not mess with any of the roosters established hens. I find at around the 1 year mark, the cockerel (now considered a rooster) is brazen enough where they will take a stab at the head dog spot, if they think they can take it.

In this case, I think your cockerel is young enough that he would submit to the older rooster without a challenge.

Id try putting all three together, and the rooster may or may not "claim" her.

 

[ChickenFeeds]

This looks like a hen to me. Are you sure your leghorn isn’t trying to mate her? Or maybe they are going through the pecking order? Easter eggers (I think he or she is one) can be kind of soft, so they can be bullied easily. I’m pretty stumped on this, but I think that separating her (or him) is a good idea for now. (But, you can’t just keep her/him out of the pecking order forever. Then I think he/she will never really get into the flock. If you can confirm it is pecking order, you should try to let them figure it out, but be sure to keep an eye on her.) (but for now keep her separated)

 

[Ritanigma]

Typically an older rooster is going to intimidate a young cockerel and the cockerel will not mess with any of the roosters established hens. I find at around the 1 year mark, the cockerel (now considered a rooster) is brazen enough where they will take a stab at the head dog spot, if they think they can take it.

In this case, I think your cockerel is young enough that he would submit to the older rooster without a challenge.

Id try putting all three together, and the rooster may or may not "claim" her.

I'll try it. Thank you! Here is a better picture of his face and the foghorn rooster twice his size! Lol

 

[Ritanigma]

This looks like a hen to me. Are you sure your leghorn isn’t trying to mate her? Or maybe they are going through the pecking order? Easter eggers (I think he or she is one) can be kind of soft, so they can be bullied easily. I’m pretty stumped on this, but I think that separating her (or him) is a good idea for now. (But, you can’t just keep her/him out of the pecking order forever. Then I think he/she will never really get into the flock. If you can confirm it is pecking order, you should try to let them figure it out, but be sure to keep an eye on her.) (but for now keep her separated)

Thank you. I will definitely do that!!

 

[Ritanigma]

Typically an older rooster is going to intimidate a young cockerel and the cockerel will not mess with any of the roosters established hens. I find at around the 1 year mark, the cockerel (now considered a rooster) is brazen enough where they will take a stab at the head dog spot, if they think they can take it.

In this case, I think your cockerel is young enough that he would submit to the older rooster without a challenge.

Id try putting all three together, and the rooster may or may not "claim" her.

And the same age!

 

[JedJackson]

It is most definitely a pullet. Her coloring is female specific and she shows no male feathering at all, and she would by that age. There are lots of reasons why the flock may be attacking her. Illness is one. It could also be that she won't allow the rooster to mate with her, and so he's still trying to establish dominance by attacking her. It could just be her passive personality that is setting them off. And one weird possibility is that she may have a damaged ovary, which could explain both the large red comb and why the male is attacking her. A pullet that has lost her ovary will start taking on some male characteristics, and that could set the other males off. It's a very small chance, though. More than likely she simply has a large comb. Comb size can be variable.

So, what to do? I would keep her in a crate in the run for a while and see if that doesn't help after a few days.