Hens doing rooster mating to the flock - What should I do to stop this?

[SkyAJK]

usually when I have an unwanted trait/behavior the animal just gets culled

Thanks for sharing. I would like to ease this issue as best as I can.
If all else fail, I will have more work on my hand for having separate runs/coops....

 

[SkyAJK]

She said she does not want to rehome or kill her birds.

Thanks for your suggestion. I read the Pinless Peepers article you included and I checked out the Pinless Peepers. It looks uncomfortable, let see if I can buy just a few in the shop here to try it out.

 

[SkyAJK]

you could just separate them

Doing that already, it is a lot of work to have so many runs to clean and set up.

 

[Toothpick]

You don't want to cull them. Don't want to re-home. Don't like the idea of pinless peepers. And keeping them separate is a lot of work.

You want to ease the issue as best you can but don't want to do any of the 4 suggestions presented. Which in a forum full of chicken keeping experts are the 4 best and only suggestions you're likely going to get.

Let us know what you decide to do. Good luck.

 

[SkyAJK]

You don't want to cull them. Don't want to re-home. Don't like the idea of pinless peepers. And keeping them separate is a lot of work.

You want to ease the issue as best you can but don't want to do any of the 4 suggestions presented. Which in a forum full of chicken keeping experts are the 4 best and only suggestions you're likely going to get.

Let us know what you decide to do. Good luck.

I have 2 options - the pinless peepers or permanently separated the 3 hens.

In my previous post I wrote I will give the pinless peepers a try.

When all else fail I will have to keep them permanently separated and this option will create a lot of work for me but the other option tried and failed.

I am not an expert in the field of keeping chickens, getting suggestions on BYC is excellent as I will get many options, then I will need to decide what option I can do and live with.

It is best to have many options, I am alone will not know what available out there, we all do different things, what work for one does not mean it will work for all. Vice versa.

At the end of the day, I will need to take an option that is effective with my flock, allow me to sleep peacefully and to have this, I will need to try out many things.

I need more than luck!

 

[McChooky]

Update?

 

[SkyAJK]

Update?

Yes, update.

Still looking for solution.......

My mother so very object to the pinless peepers

I separated my bully&mating hen, Apple for 2 weeks by herself, when I returned her to the flock, she was quiet, not bullying, not mating with the other hens.

Then after a week or so, Apple was back to her old bully and mating hens again. I separated her again and have been doing it back and forth.

Most recent, Apple returned, I put another hen in this group, this additional hen brings calmness to the flock. Apple wants to be her friend all was good until yesterday....she started to bully & mating the other 2 again so .....

Today I will separate Apple again and this time I will do it for a whole long month!

My mom insisted that I must separated Apple only, no pinless peepers. I can not home her or cull her. We are her 3rd home already.

I have not found a solution. Apple is the biggest hen in my flock, Plymouth Rock breed. I do love Apple dearly in her own special way, when we look at each other, she really looked at me.

It is very stressful for the flock and me. Somehow, I pray that we find a solution for this issue. After all, Apple is a member of our family.

 

[SkyAJK]

Final updated.
We decided to have Apple will permanently free range in the general garden with our 4 Japanese and Pekin bantams. Apple is not garden destructive.

Apple will sleep with her other flock in the coop at night, but during the day time she is not in the chicken runs.

Apple and the rest of the flock will be mingle in the afternoon before bed time. She can see them through the fence during the day.

It is good in away that Apple is quite big so it gives some sort of protection for the 4 little bantams.

Apple is sweet to human, but not to chickens.