Old English game Batman rooster x sebright hen

[Mamabear28]

Hi so i had three sebright two silver lance (one rooster one hen ( and 1 golden lance.both my silvers got picked off by an owl cus they roosted in trees with my guineas at night and not in the coop. I don't know what to do about her none of them are mating yet but I'm scared the roosters may crush her. I have an old English game Batman rooster but he even 2x her size and he younger then her should i pen her up till i can get another rooster her size or do you think I'm just worrying for nothing? I also have 3-4 standard size rooster but they haven't matured yet

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

The best thing would be to put her in her own run with a coop until you can get some more sebrights or other bantams. Keep the sebright you have now and the new bantams you get locked up in the run for a week or 2 so that they know to sleep in the coop. The standard sized roosters will try to mate her and they will hurt her. Good luck.

 

[chickendreams24]

We run a sebright with our mixed flock containing silkies and also oegb(oddly my oegb are smaller than my sebright-although she is tiny).

However we have a large number of large fowl hens and pullets as well as some bantam roos. If you have enough of a hen to roo ratio I think you should be fine.

If she doesn't want to be bred by a roo she's capable of dodging them. I would keep an eye on the cockerals though as they may become rowdy and gang rape the pullets and hens. The only time I separate any of my breeds is for breeding pure eggs. Occasionally I have a hen or pullet that seems a little sore or over whelmed and will separate her then. Usually this only happens if a cockeral was too rough or a roo bred her on the gravel driveway. It also has happened to all of my breeds except my little bantams bc they know to move away from the bottom boys.

That being said this last spring there was a Romeo Juliet thing playing out when one of my huge English Orpington roos fell in love with a black oegb hen. She in turn also loved him. I tried to keep them separate as he weighs about 10 lbs or more but she wouldn't have it. I did however discover one day when I watched him breed her that in fact he was standing with one foot on either side of her not one her. In this way he breeds her only when she squats and doesn't hurt her.

He's a pretty special rooster I'm sure but it can happen and even if it does its not usually a problem unless they're intentionally rough. My advice if you have a roo like that is eat him and find a better roo. I know that may seem harsh but I've seen what a rough roo/cockeral can do to a pullet or hen