Help, roosters pecked hole in hens neck!

[TexasSam]

You my not want to hear it but you might start thinking about letting go of your excess roosters especially the one that is harming the hens
http://articles.extension.org/pages...nibalism-in-small-and-backyard-poultry-flocks

 

[Leighe]

Thanks again, I have 3 roosters in separate pens. Left the gentle rooster with the younger hens, housed 2 roosters with my older hens (in cages) they are not happy about it. No one is happy here and I hate it. I miss the carefree free range days of my all my feathered babies.

To see if you have Avian vets in your area: http://aav.site-ym.com/search/newsearch.asp
Type in the search, your state. You hopefully will come up with a few choices. I incubate and got 7 roosters out of 9 chicks on my last two batches....just sayin it can happen to anybody. If I buy from somewhere I go to a feed store and they have males and females. They even guarantee the females so if one turns out to be a rooster they will take it back and give me another or my money back.