Rooster over-mating hens

[h2oratt]

3 months.

Yes they will fight and they will over mate the hens. You should try to get rid of some of them.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

Before you do something with your roster that you can't un-do remember that this is the time of year that the annual molt begins and that there is usually more going on with chickens who are having plumage issues than too much mating or too vigorous a rooster.

Also one of the worst external chicken parasites is depluming mites. The suckers are even too small to see with the naked eye. Treat for them and see if your hens' plumage doesn't improve.

 

[chuckachucka]

I have a slightly different issue I need advice with. I have just one hen and cockerel left after five out of six of my chicks turned out to be cockerels and we had to get rid of four. Now I would like to breed the pair left to have more. The hen just started laying eggs this week (five and a half months old) and the cockerel has been crowing and trying to 'woo' her for weeks but it seems like she just isn't interested. He tries to grab her neck feathers and she squawks and flaps and runs away like he is trying to kill her. I have never seen them actually mate but is it possible they are doing it while I am not looking or does her scared behaviour mean that she never lets him do his thing? I've never heard of a hen not squatting for a cockerel. She squats when I try to pet her!

 

[ShanandGem]

I am going to try housing them separately in connecting pens and just letting them out to free range for a couple of hours a day. That way he gets to have his 'special time' and offer protection from threats and they get a break the rest of the day.

 

[Chickensfan]

Yes they will fight and they will over mate the hens. You should try to get rid of some of them.

i got rid of 2. all is well now in chicken land. i have 2 flocks. in my big flock, there are 2 roos, yet one is very passive and doesn't mind the other being dominant. in my small flock, there is one roo.

 

[h2oratt]

Woo hoo processed the 4 month old Roos yesterday . My husband did a great job

 

[Chickensfan]

Before you do something with your roster that you can't un-do remember that this is the time of year that the annual molt begins and that there is usually more going on with chickens who are having plumage issues than too much mating or too vigorous a rooster.

Also one of the worst external chicken parasites is depluming mites. The suckers are even too small to see with the naked eye. Treat for them and see if your hens' plumage doesn't improve.

Hattie is fine now. turns out it was just stress marks, and he is a roo! i call him Hats or Hatsie Patsie now. he is the passive roo.

 

[Chickensfan]

Woo hoo processed the 4 month old Roos yesterday . My husband did a great job

woo! nice to get it over with!

 

[mamatink7]

Might be having somewhat of same issue.
One roo to 15 pullets are 19.5 wks old now; 4 are definitely laying now. Our girls don't let him on them at all.
Are we supposed to let him jump on them? He also pecks at several BA and we grab her away or him away. He will have 19 total girls though once younger 4 join the coop (transitioning them together is awful)
King Titan (BCM roo) is an amazing protector & is wonderful most of them time; but not sure how will these girls and us let him get at then. This is all new to us. He was a surprise rooster. PS I COULD split them into different coops but run is the same.

 

[Heidi65]

Here's the only rooster my hens will have to put up with. (Mine can't free range, so I really don't need a rooster). . This is my nest box curtain!

I love it! Our girls are only out to free range with us out to protect them and a high power pellet gun called the "Bone Collector"