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[JShubin]

Mile high club

 

[JShubin]

 

[Kung Fu Rooster]

Mile high club

LOL

 

[roosterhavoc]

That's a bird that won't take no for an answer I bet.

 

[maranfarmer563]

Roosterhavoc,is a mother hen with chicks allowed to walk around your cock yard, or if a hen was in a dome could the chicks come thru the wire and walk around cocks with no problems.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Roosterhavoc,is a mother hen with chicks allowed to walk around your cock yard, or if a hen was in a dome could the chicks come thru the wire and walk around cocks with no problems.

I let my older laying hens wander around the domes with my fly tying roosters (some of them can be aggressive too). Under no circumstances are any hens allowed to wander around the gamefowl pens (especially with chicks). I have a few stags but one in particular that is so aggressive he will try to rip a hen right through his pen. So definately not!
Whether or not a cock would bother the chicks would most likely depend on the individual bird. Pens with hen and chicks have hardware cloth on top of welded wire so they can't get out anyway.

 

[centrarchid]

Roosterhavoc,is a mother hen with chicks allowed to walk around your cock yard, or if a hen was in a dome could the chicks come thru the wire and walk around cocks with no problems.

This may a problem that varies by rooster and strain. My males once reaching bullstag and beyond are good around chicks coming into their pens. My efforts to separate are intended to slow chick exposure to coccodia rather than prevent violence on them.

 

[maranfarmer563]

My penned roosters are on different property from my free range. The free range roosters help raise the chicks. I figured penned would be aggressive. What if the rooster has a hen in his pen already

 

[centrarchid]

My penned roosters are on different property from my free range. The free range roosters help raise the chicks. I figured penned would be aggressive. What if the rooster has a hen in his pen already

The hen will be the problem for the chicks. I try to avoid having so hens can fight each other through the pens as many will do just like the males, especially if somebody has chicks. During production season I keep male and female pens scattered out. Hens used for producing hatching eggs each get their own pen as well so parentage on hen side also known. Broodies on the outside tend to avoid the penned hens but have no problem going to cock pens where chicks spill in with him for eats he points out. Chicks going in with the penned hens get attacked. Do not have to be games for this pattern to manifest. I still effort to keep broodies with chicks away from pens for reason given earlier.

 

[maranfarmer563]

I raise my incubated chicks in 8 chicken tractors, I keep a few cull chicks running around to clean around pens. Was just wondering if that would work with game cocks with spilled food.