PLEASE HELP!!! My rooster had pecked over half my baby hens head off he killed another one what do i

[anderson8505]

Glad she seems to be doing okay. Keep us posted.

 

[dixie2003]

She is doing good today noticed that she is eating a little bit she likes the Cheerios i give them in there laying pellets. I cleaned the wound with iodine (diluted a lot) and after i cleaned it as good as i could with that then i put neosporin on it and cleaned out the house that she was in gave her fresh beading and clean water and food she also has a light on in there so she can stay warm. She is 2 1/2 months old now.

 

[dixie2003]

This pick was taken today after i cleaned the wound

 

[anderson8505]

oh, the poor girl. I'd have to kill that roo, sorry.

 

[psycoforsilkies]

i had a mean silkie roo so i put him out with my laying hens which are much larger, they didnt beat him but he learned to be nicer, and not cause anymore trouble

 

[dixie2003]

I am almost sure that she has lost her eye but that is no big deal for me at all i just want her to make it threw this and i think she will

 

[ShortAnda]

I had a pair of Light Brown Leghorn roosters who did something similar. They picked at the rear ends of my chicks that they were hatched with until their intestines were pulled out. I put down about 10 chicks because of what they did to them. They started the habit very young (before they had all of their feathers!). Well, to get even with them and because I was fed up with their canabalism I put them in with the big chickens and the big roosters to fend for themselves. They picked on by the adult chickens for about a month and quit their bad habits until one day they killed my last Ameracauna chick from their batch to the point where I had to put her down too.

Long story short... I had enough. I couldn't trust them ever again. They were a couple months old so I kicked them out of the coop figuring that if they could survive outside then I would continue feeding and watering them. They lasted about another month before nature picked them off. I thought about putting them in their own coop and keeping them around but they murdered far to many and they were not going to get anymore help from me. Their diposition was not one that I wanted to pass on to future generations.

I've delt with cannabalism many times. It usually starts as something small. Like pecking the crown of one chicken developing a taste for blood. Then they start on her back and fleshy sides under her wings. I've learned that the best way to deal with birds that have a desire to do harm to others is to get rid of them and not to let them hang around in your chicken gene pool.

 

[anderson8505]

Thank you, I think this post is very helpful to know!!! I've heard the same about quail, usually the bullies have to be culled.

I had a pair of Light Brown Leghorn roosters who did something similar. They picked at the rear ends of my chicks that they were hatched with until their intestines were pulled out. I put down about 10 chicks because of what they did to them. They started the habit very young (before they had all of their feathers!). Well, to get even with them and because I was fed up with their canabalism I put them in with the big chickens and the big roosters to fend for themselves. They picked on by the adult chickens for about a month and quit their bad habits until one day they killed my last Ameracauna chick from their batch to the point where I had to put her down too.

Long story short... I had enough. I couldn't trust them ever again. They were a couple months old so I kicked them out of the coop figuring that if they could survive outside then I would continue feeding and watering them. They lasted about another month before nature picked them off. I thought about putting them in their own coop and keeping them around but they murdered far to many and they were not going to get anymore help from me. Their diposition was not one that I wanted to pass on to future generations.

I've delt with cannabalism many times. It usually starts as something small. Like pecking the crown of one chicken developing a taste for blood. Then they start on her back and fleshy sides under her wings. I've learned that the best way to deal with birds that have a desire to do harm to others is to get rid of them and not to let them hang around in your chicken gene pool.

 

[tammye]

that roo needs to go. Hope she does well, she looks good in the pics

 

[PekinBantam]

The rooster will probably attack more chicks in the future, it's the instinct of many male animals to kill the babies so that the mama will go in heat again and the male can mate her. If I were you I would tie him before any other chicks hatch.