Rooster Advice - Rooster injuring hens

[JHH3]

Looking at this picture, his spurs seem to grow inwards instead of backwards and this will downright gore the girls if allowed to grow much longer.

I would trim his spurs really short using a Dremel. There are videos on yout*be on how to do it correctly and without blood loss.

And please, remove the green ring around his right leg, it is much to small and might cause injury as they can grow into the skin.

That's interesting, they are growing over his little back toe, are they supposed to grow pointing further back?

I'll look into trimming his spurs. The ring isn't as tight as it looks in the photo, but it does need to be moved to his leg above his spur or removed, it dropped over it when he was smaller.

 

[LaFleche]

Here is an example of how they should grow (backwards):
https://external-content.duckduckgo...ontent/uploads/2019/04/spurs-1.png&f=1&nofb=1

 

[Katz222]

This guy is a big boy, he'll be a year old in mid-April.


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Is he a freedom ranger? He looks like the ones my mom and sister had. My mom got rid of hers because they just tore the hens up. Not only did they rake them with the claws but they literally would peck, stab at and grab the hens faces and grind them into the ground. If the hen refused mating and ran away they would BOTH pursue her and give her a thrashing and then both try to mate with her taking turns. She had two roosters (freedom rangers) and 24 hens that were all breeding age and a few older ones still within breeding range. Maybe 3 or 4 yrs old. Though the roosters were never aggressive with each other she culled one of the roosters to see if that would calm the other with his aggression towards the hens. It didn't work. After he nearly killed one of her buff orpingtons she culled him as well. He was about 2 yrs old. She went without a rooster for awhile and let the hens heal up. Then she got a buff orpington rooster and he is so gentle with the hens. My sister has two freedom rangers as well. Again they never aggress towards each other but were very aggressive to the hens. Same as how my moms were. My sister however has a huge lot of land and the hens have a lot of space to get away. If the roosteres tried to chase them down the hens just outran them. After the two year mark the roosters have calmed with the hens and now mate in a much more gentle manner. They are very aggressive with people though. All four of the roosters came at the same time and were all the same age and from the same hatchery. I don't know if it's a trait in them to be so mean or if we were just unlucky. You can get saddles for the hens too.

 

[JHH3]

Is he a freedom ranger? He looks like the ones my mom and sister had. My mom got rid of hers because they just tore the hens up. Not only did they rake them with the claws but they

No, he's a Gold Laced Wyandotte. He's not mean, just enthusiastic, big and clumsy.

I've got him and 3 jungle fowl in a separate bachelor coop, left one jungle fowl with them as a guard rooster. So far he's a little gentler, though some hens take him for a ride when he tries to mate them. I'm going to give it some time to see if the hens recover their feathers with him in there, otherwise I'll take him out too. Once they're fully feathered again, I'll try reintroducing the big one to them and see if age and distance mellows him out. If not, then I'll remove him again and he'll only get to see them when I get to the point of wanting to hatch some new chicks out.

Bit of a pain to have to separate, but it's working out so far.