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Revan
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I have multiple roosters due to having multiple breeds. My leghorns grew up with my polish chickens. The polish and leghorns are now all in their own separate coops and runs to keep the birds purebred. Long term, that is my goal, and we're building additional coops as we go along and get the money to do so.
There are plenty of hens to go around per rooster. My problem is not with the roosters anyway. Just the leghorn hens. I have about 100 different chickens spread across the property in their own coops and runs (12 acres of land total) and only the leghorn hens are giving me problems.
The leghorns are approximately 6 months of age and have started laying in the last month. We get about 7-9 eggs a day from them. I miscounted the hens previously. There are a total of 12 leghorn hens and one rooster. And they only pecked at the other breeds when they were still housed together, and currently just the lone male in their group, not once at each other. Poor boy has no tail feathers currently.
They all get the same feed: 16% protein layer with some granite grit and a few handfuls of scratch gets tossed into the run for them to forage a bit, and a few times a week we toss in mealworms, so I don't believe it's a nutrition issue. They get fed once a day and we fill up the feeder, and there's sometimes food left over the next day, so they get plenty that they need, not to mention in the run they are able to forage since we just built right on top of the shrubs and weeds and seedlings of new grass are currently coming up.
At this point my mother wants me to sell a few of the leghorn girls and see if there's any improvement. Since we do nothing different for the leghorns than any of the other breeds we have, she thinks that there are just too many girls for the rooster to handle.
There are plenty of hens to go around per rooster. My problem is not with the roosters anyway. Just the leghorn hens. I have about 100 different chickens spread across the property in their own coops and runs (12 acres of land total) and only the leghorn hens are giving me problems.
The leghorns are approximately 6 months of age and have started laying in the last month. We get about 7-9 eggs a day from them. I miscounted the hens previously. There are a total of 12 leghorn hens and one rooster. And they only pecked at the other breeds when they were still housed together, and currently just the lone male in their group, not once at each other. Poor boy has no tail feathers currently.
They all get the same feed: 16% protein layer with some granite grit and a few handfuls of scratch gets tossed into the run for them to forage a bit, and a few times a week we toss in mealworms, so I don't believe it's a nutrition issue. They get fed once a day and we fill up the feeder, and there's sometimes food left over the next day, so they get plenty that they need, not to mention in the run they are able to forage since we just built right on top of the shrubs and weeds and seedlings of new grass are currently coming up.
At this point my mother wants me to sell a few of the leghorn girls and see if there's any improvement. Since we do nothing different for the leghorns than any of the other breeds we have, she thinks that there are just too many girls for the rooster to handle.
