Sort of.... I had not been letting my Orp hens out very much because they don't stay together and I would have to round them up from all over the property. The Cochins had been together with the hen sitting on eggs, but the last of them hatched and I put the babies in the brooder. So, I let out the Cochins and right away, Severus TOOK CHARGE!~ He lined out those Orp hens like nothin' to it. Now they are all roosting in the same coop, and sticking close by him. One tried to go wandering off yesterday afternoon and he chewed her out but good and grabbed the back of her head and gave her a sling towards the back yard! He doesn't appear to be "mean" to them at all, but he obviously does not take "no" for an answer! It doesn't really matter if he breeds them, because we are gathering the eggs anyway. We have a couple of Orp roos, but they are stll just babies. I'm glad he has stepped up in the protector role, I hated keeping the girls penned all the time, but wandering off alone is how chickens get dead.
