Hen Terrified of Rooster; Behavior Advice or Good Chicken Recipe Sought...

[Molpet]

I have a BJG that had a nasty wound on her side. a cockerel had been after her... then the head hen would jump on her too.. not sure who did the most damage to her...She is healed up now several months later and has a hard ridge on her side.. like a rib out of place.. she has been laying through it all.
Currently I lock her in a dog cage in the bachelor pad at night and kick the boys out and leave her locked in the coop during the day...one day when I have a chance I'll try reintroducing her to a flock.. maybe when the new pullets start mating and have the roos attention

 

[MrsAuberry00]

I have a BJG that had a nasty wound on her side. a cockerel had been after her... then the head hen would jump on her too.. not sure who did the most damage to her...She is healed up now several months later and has a hard ridge on her side.. like a rib out of place.. she has been laying through it all.
Currently I lock her in a dog cage in the bachelor pad at night and kick the boys out and leave her locked in the coop during the day...one day when I have a chance I'll try reintroducing her to a flock.. maybe when the new pullets start mating and have the roos attention

It's only the roo after her now and she is, or was the head hen.

 

[MrsAuberry00]

I don't know why I can't update my own initial post! Annoying af.

I'm cranky at the moment because after a nine hour workday, I came home to my bullied hen hiding in the coop with new, (minor) wounds on her comb and a cracked beak! I checked her over for other wounds and observed for an hour. At one point, the hen was in the coop on a roost when the rooster went in and within a few seconds, she came squawking out with him right on her tail with his beak full of her feathers. I've been all about giving this time and behavioral training to let the situation normalize, but I'm just about to the point where the rooster is going to have to go. This is not my idea of a good time...

 

[bobbi-j]

Chicken stew is starting to sound pretty good about now.

 

[MrsAuberry00]

 

[Molpet]

It's only the roo after her now and she is, or was the head hen.

right now the healed hen is separated.. before she went broody last year, she was the head hen.... the 2nd in command took the head hen spot and was fine with everyone until June when she started knocking the ex head hen and a BR hen around.

 

[MrsAuberry00]

I think I'll just cull the rooster so I don't have to worry about this crap. And to think, I was the one bawling about keeping him because I'd gotten attached to him. The craphead wasn't even supposed to be a roo! UGH!!

 

[bobbi-j]

I think I'll just cull the rooster so I don't have to worry about this crap. And to think, I was the one bawling about keeping him because I'd gotten attached to him. The craphead wasn't even supposed to be a roo! UGH!!

Yeah, funny how that attachment changes when they turn ugly, isn't it?

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Everyone will be better off without him. Bad roosters make everyone miserable while they are enjoying themselves. I put the flocks well being before an individual's.

 

[KateGoad]

We are considering getting rid of (or at least sequestering) the roos. Our older ladies hide from the roos. The younger aren't sexually mature enough to tempt them. Meybe when there are more nature hens - we have three six month old hens, two five-month, and one 19 weeks. Here are the youngest and the two Roos and the youngest.

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