Hello,
I have a rooster named Trousers. About 10 months old. He is very rough mating with his girls. He has drawn blood on one of the girls, (she has been molting also) and her neck has been pretty badly torn up. Enough so that I had to isolate her because the other hens started picking on her also. He tried to be aggressive with my dh and I but we put a stop to that by scaring him a few times with a broom(never hit him) my dh would hold him down for a few minutes in front of his girls. Now he is not aggressive toward us but we are wondering if we need to get rid of him for being mean to his girls. We would just take him back to the feed store where we got him as a baby chick.
My question is is there any way to train them to mate nicely?
Thanks for your thoughts...
This is the hen Daisy Mae that he hurt.
This is Trousers
I have a rooster named Trousers. About 10 months old. He is very rough mating with his girls. He has drawn blood on one of the girls, (she has been molting also) and her neck has been pretty badly torn up. Enough so that I had to isolate her because the other hens started picking on her also. He tried to be aggressive with my dh and I but we put a stop to that by scaring him a few times with a broom(never hit him) my dh would hold him down for a few minutes in front of his girls. Now he is not aggressive toward us but we are wondering if we need to get rid of him for being mean to his girls. We would just take him back to the feed store where we got him as a baby chick.
My question is is there any way to train them to mate nicely?
Thanks for your thoughts...
This is the hen Daisy Mae that he hurt.
This is Trousers
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