Ok another what am I post! Updated with new question! 9-15-11

[penut1799]

Rooster

 

[cjsgrlsx3]

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OMG your hens backs are raw....you need to to remove some roosters or add some more hens.....it looks so painful!

I got these hens from someone else that was going to destroy them. He said they were too old and will not lay anymore. They are doing much better now and one hen that was almost completely bald is almost fully covered now. It's just a matter of time before they are better! And, yes, a few of them are actually laying for me! They love a dirt bath and hang around the buff orpington roo all day! I will post pictures on their progress. If my roos continue this treatment to them I will certainly seperate them! But these are not the same roos that caused the damage to them.

 

[cjsgrlsx3]

So the splash rooster (grey one in the previous pictures) is this one a Jersey Giant? I will not be getting my chicken from the same person that I got them from before. I am having to put two down today.

 

[citychickx6]

Man that stinks.

I do not think the gray one is a JG but I do not know the breed well and adding the splash part throws me.

I hope things improve for you.

 

[kjfrogster41]

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What are "saddle feathers"?

 

[farmerChef]

they are on the back.
saddle feathers on a young rooster:

 

[cjsgrlsx3]

I know wveryone was concerned about my hens backs! Here is an updated picture! They are doing great!

 

[JodyJo]

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your roo looks like one of mine...

...he is my alpha roo (He has much more green in his hackle feathers now...
Its an EE/game mix,mine is at least...yours looks very similar



I had 3 roos, all raised together, this above one, became the alpha, and this one:

(became the 2nd in command)

Here is #2 mating, #1 is in the background...when I had the 3rd roo, he would run over and knock whichever roo was mating...we re-homed him, they were starting to keep him
from food etc.

If raised together, they do fine...eventually a victor will emerge. My first year with chickens, all 9 I had, were roos...go figure! They did great, but I had no hens...I re-homed them also.