Thanks for sharing that, if weather holds out I'm going to take the girls out today. In a perfect world, Bill will realize what's going on, let me catch him so he can join them. Haha. In MY world, he'll be too scared stay behind feel all left out, pace and worry. I've read things like that about roosters too, kind of a "a day late and a dollar short". As I mentioned my roo was unplanned. If it turns out he needs separate living quarters he'll have to be re-homed. We just don't have the $$ for another coop. I'm not planning to raise chickens. I'll post later how things are going today.