My rooster attacked one of my hens!

[HorseFeatherz NV]

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Not all are mean. I have a bantam RIR rooster - Woodstock, he is sweet as sugar. A lap sitter, snuggler, loves to be petted and will fall asleep in my lap.

Oh, I didn't mean to imply all RIR roosters are mean. I have just heard it a lot on this forum. I know RIR tend to be more outgoing than the typical chicken. I have a hen that isn't afraid of anything. She isn't "mean" but she isn't nice either. But she is still one of my favorites because she interacts with me. Not a "lap sitter" though

I hear it (ok, read) it a lot also, and just like to point out that not all are mean

 

[chickenlips1954]

I had a year old Cuckoo Maran roo that attacked a young pullet while we were at work one day. He shredded and ripped open her back. My DH found her and thought she was dead, but put her in the brooder box in the garage until I got home. I washed her with soap and warm water, put antibiotic cream on her wounds, then placed her back in the brooder box under a warm heat lamp. Slowly but surely she improved each day. I put fresh ointment on her wounds daily and made sure she drank water and ate. She was well enough in two weeks to return to the coop and no one bothered her again...especially the roo since he met the long end of a shotgun after he attacked both me and my DH. Feathers never grew back where the wounds were, but that didn't bother her or us. Good luck with your hens healing!

 

[elevan]

After doing some searching and researching...I'm thinking that maybe Miss Flufferbottom may be a MR Flufferbottom...and therein may lie the problem.

I've raised her (or him) up from a chick and understand that cochins are slow to mature. I've never had chickens before these...

 

[ranchhand]

Just going by the comb showing in the first pic, I am wondering if perhaps you have a young rooster (cockeral) there? That would explain the hanging back from the others and the attack.

 

[ranchhand]

LOL, we were posting at the same time. GMTA!

 

[Montana-Hens]

Unless you want or need chicks from that rooster, he would be dinner at my house.

 

[sourland]

X2 in a heartbeat!

 

[Up-the-Creek]

I hope it is a case of mistaken identity for the roosters sake. I had a lovely rooster,..Jack,..a cross between Partridge and Barred Rock. We raised him from a chick. He got old enough to be the "man" of the flock and he decided he didn't like Buff Orpingtons,....one hen I found dead,...she was ripped open on her neck and her back,...the other buff I had,..he tormented her almost to death, when at this point,..painfully, he went to freezer camp. The other hen died within a week,...He was always a perfect gentleman to everything else,...he just didn't like my two buff hens,....sometimes you just can't explain chicken behaviour.

 

[elevan]

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My DH and I have already decided that he is headed to freezer camp. He'll be my first processed bird...so I gotta work up the nerve to get it done (and yes it will be me and not DH doing the deed)