Thanks for responses....we had more males out of our first hatch (only 5 hens) so had him in with 2 hens. Very well could be that he didn't have enough girls to keep busy. We've got an additional 3 roosters that will be more than willing to step in and fill the void. In fact, they are in a cage together, and have been singing love songs day and night. Good grief, they are loud!!!! I am sitting at the computer on the front end of the house, and I and can hear them plain as day. They are out in a metal building in our backyard about 25 yards away, and I can hear the crazy things.
The three males that live together have also been trying to romance each other, and in the process, they have all pulled feathers out of the tops of each others heads. It's not pecked at and bloody or anything, they are all just bald. And they don't appear to be fighting each other, really, just looking for love in all the wrong places. They look pretty funny. Quail pattern baldness? They better start working on growing some "hair" if they want to get a chance at romance for real. Or get some toupees......
Since we are raising them primarily as meat birds, the "cull the jerks" plan sounds ideal to me. Makes it a little easier to pick who goes first.
The little hen is healing up nicely. She is going to be fine, but if Pokey hadn't gotten the male outta the cage he'd have offed her. I told him maybe he got tired of listening to her gripe at him.
Thanks again for responses.....
Kim (answering for Pokey since he's in bed asleep)
