Rooster who can't stop breeding hen!!! Help!!!

[carolina chicky]

My Cornish X Rooster "Cllucky" is a very good protector of my hens. There are 8 hens and he won't let you come near them without watching you and sometimes making a charge for you, but anyway..my question is... Clucky loves to breed the hens.(seems like all the time) He is larger than they are, of course, and much heavier, but he has chosen one in particular...a Black Australorp. The problem is that he will mount her and leave large cuts down her sides. I have her seperated now and am treating the cuts. I was wondering what I can do to kind of "cool him off" so he will leave the girls alone. I don't want to seperate him because he does his job of protecting them very well, and I don't have anywhere else to put him, but what can I do to stop him from abusing my girls? He doesn't have spurs yet so I am guessing his nails are doing the cutting...can I clip the nails or is there something else I can do?

 

[Aj1911]

i would file his toenails smooth

or get some chicken saddles.

 

[Lady_Cluck]

Years ago I had a Phoenix rooster. He was an absolutely gorgeous bird. It must have gone to his little bird brain though, because he too wouldn't stop breeding the hens. I've never seen a rooster this bad!!! Well, the hens had about had it and I had to step in.

Like you, I didn't want to separate him from the rest of the flock. So I made a special fitted fleece tether to go around one of his legs and I tied him up. I'm serious! It was a few feet long and I checked on him many times throughout the day; he had access to food, water, and hens when they wanted to come near him. Everyone got along fine, the hens grew their back feathers back, and he spent the majority of his first summer and fall tied up. I would untie him so he could perch in the barn in the evenings. Eventually, Horny (yep, that was his name) grew out of his raging adolescent hormones, earned his freedom, and turned out to be a darn good rooster.

However, tying your rooster up isn't always practical.

I was surfing BYC the other day and came across these hen saddles. What a great idea!!! I would have used these for the hens had I known they existed!

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