ouch, ours free range 24/7 for a year now, 3 protectors for the hens watch over the them. So they are always together with their perspective hens. we have a BR, RIR and a blue Swedish Drake that protect our girls and they are really good at team work red stays with hens moving them while the BR goes for blood and the drake helps which ever needs it the most. That's for night time, during the day they got a guard boxer tooI was satisfied with my winter loss, it was not overly bad. I would have lost none, had the rooster not been so stupid. I was taking him out of the bachelor pad and moving him to a breeding pen and he escaped. I tried to catch him for over and hour. I went into the house to warm up and give him a chance to find a sleeping place. I went out about 45 minutes later and found him dead with these wing marks in the snow:
He was lying where the feathers are. The owl wing marks are pretty obvious. He was too stupid to reproduce. Darwin's law took him out of the breeding pool.