Polish Getting Pecked

[BreezyBre]

I have a really nice roo Jimmy he's just started crowing ,easy to handle ,good to his ladies unfortunately someone is pecking the begeezus out of his flock ....I know this is kinda par for the course with mixing this breed into a flock a lot of the times . I've been watching to see if I can find who's doing it and I don't have a clue who it is . The odd thing is that I have a gorgeous buff polish hen with the poofiest head you'd ever want to see & yet no one touches her .
So here's what I'm wondering since he's such a good boy I am trying to hang on to him so I'm wondering if I separate him out to let his crest grow back in do you think he'd be okay to be reintegrate back into the flock after that or am I just doomed to re-home my sweet Goofy little boy to a different flock ?

 

[sourland]

You might try separating him until his crest is completely regrown with no pin/blood feathers and then try reintroducing him. Good luck. He casts a mighty shadow.

 

[HuskerHens18]

I've found my crested birds (Polish and Houdan) are pecked bald from other males trying to mate too often. Even the roosters! I simply made a "crested" pen for them to live peck free. Feather fixer really did help my bald chickens. I have been told it's not that good for roosters because of the extra calcium, but maybe it could help your hens?
Do you have other roosters? That's my first thought of who's doing it.
I've never used blu-kote, but I wonder if it would help protect his head from further pecking?

 

[BreezyBre]

I've found my crested birds (Polish and Houdan) are pecked bald from other males trying to mate too often. Even the roosters! I simply made a "crested" pen for them to live peck free. Feather fixer really did help my bald chickens. I have been told it's not that good for roosters because of the extra calcium, but maybe it could help your hens?
Do you have other roosters? That's my first thought of who's doing it.
I've never used blu-kote, but I wonder if it would help protect his head from further pecking?

He gets blue kote everyday and they started to come back in nicely I laced mixed a day on blue kote and those feathers were taken out
I do have other roo's but I keep everyone out of the coop unless it's bedtime & I tell I've watched and watched I don't see who the hell is doing ,the roo's seem to get a long fine . I've sat in the free range area & watched ,I've sat at a distance and watched I case my presence effected the pecking ya know ..nothin'. :S
I will try separating him I just know he'll hate it he loves mingling with his girls lol

 

[HuskerHens18]

He gets blue kote everyday and they started to come back in nicely I laced mixed a day on blue kote and those feathers were taken out
I do have other roo's but I keep everyone out of the coop unless it's bedtime & I tell I've watched and watched I don't see who the hell is doing ,the roo's seem to get a long fine . I've sat in the free range area & watched ,I've sat at a distance and watched I case my presence effected the pecking ya know ..nothin'. :S
I will try separating him I just know he'll hate it he loves mingling with his girls lol

I'm thinking it's your other Roos, when you throw treats down do they allow your Polish to come eat them too or do they bully him away?

 

[BreezyBre]

I'm thinking it's your other Roos, when you throw treats down do they allow your Polish to come eat them too or do they bully him away?

Everyone eats pretty fairly here especially when I do treats I do separate piles that way everyone gets some and we dont have fighting

 

[BreezyBre]

I actually just went out to do treats to double check on everyone and honestly no one bullies him he actually goes to the back of the crowd on his own . So I tried to hand feed him get him involved with the rest of the flock eating in various piles as they do and he just stayed out of it on his own so I gave him his own little pile of treats and finished unbothered :S

 

[BreezyBre]

I'm thinking it's your other Roos, when you throw treats down do they allow your Polish to come eat them too or do they bully him away?

My other roo's are actually waaay bigger than him and so maybe he's stays back because of that ? I just don't know *sigh* He walks around with my other big guy Cogburn ( Orpington ) I've never seen my other big roo have issues with him in fact I've actually seen Jimmy chase him away last time I threw out noodles lol

 

[HuskerHens18]

My other roo's are actually waaay bigger than him and so maybe he's stays back because of that ? I just don't know *sigh* He walks around with my other big guy Cogburn ( Orpington ) I've never seen my other big roo have issues with him in fact I've actually seen Jimmy chase him away last time I threw out noodles lol

I really don't have much more advice, if you isolate him too long then it will be very hard to integrate him back in. I hope you have good luck doing so.
Last thing you could try is just leaving him in and accept he'll never have a full crest.

What about your "top hen"? Could she be bullying him at all?

 

[BreezyBre]

I really appreciate all the advice thank you I was worried about separation too long being an issue Soo I could accept him being crestless but sometimes whoever the heck is pecking him is really rough about it . I'm feeling like the best solution for him is a better home with just him and some nicer chickens .
He went after my head hen once ....she chased his ass all over the yard lolol He hasn't been near her since lol