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[chickisoup]

Hey Al! Guess what the storms blew in???? (pic taken by a friend)

 

[bobbi-j]

Sand Hills!

 

[Alaskan]

Hi Bobbi
About your roo. It is most likely he did do the initial damage. If that is the only hen he goes after like that, from what I've learned, it sounds like he has decided for who knows for certain what reason (color, behavior, body appearance, scent, ????) that the poor hen is either a stranger to the flock and does not belong or is unfit to be in his "gene pool" for breeding. If this is the case, given the opportunity, if he is unsuccessful in driving her off, he will kill her. It's just part of his job as protector of his flock and it's future propagation. If this is what you are dealing with, you will not be able to convince him to leave her alone. One of them will have to go, or at the least be permanently separated.

Wow.

Have you had a roo that did that?

 

[Alaskan]

Hey Al! Guess what the storms blew in???? (pic taken by a friend)

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An insanely great photo!!

 

[Alaskan]

Me... have my feet up... listening to the front loaded I shelled out big bucks for...

Yep, second time this winter, he is pushing back the berms.

 

[bobbi-j]

Hi Bobbi
About your roo. It is most likely he did do the initial damage. If that is the only hen he goes after like that, from what I've learned, it sounds like he has decided for who knows for certain what reason (color, behavior, body appearance, scent, ????) that the poor hen is either a stranger to the flock and does not belong or is unfit to be in his "gene pool" for breeding. If this is the case, given the opportunity, if he is unsuccessful in driving her off, he will kill her. It's just part of his job as protector of his flock and it's future propagation. If this is what you are dealing with, you will not be able to convince him to leave her alone. One of them will have to go, or at the least be permanently separated.

Dang! For as long as I’ve been keeping chickens, I have never, ever seen something like that. Maybe I’ll see if a couple of the hens would gat along with her well enough to put them in a separate coop and alternate free range days. I’ll have to put some thought into this.

 

[orrpeople]

First EVER in your life chick shipment???

No... But it's been about 4 years since my last one. So kinda.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Gosh feel like low woman out there am I only one that has not ordered from a hatchery

 

[room onthebroom]

Gosh feel like low woman out there am I only one that has not ordered from a hatchery

I haven’t either, but I have gotten them from feed stores who’s had them hatchery shipped.

I do prefer local, but Newcastle, closely followed by covid has made that nearly impossible.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Ahh thank for the encouragement I have bought at our local feed store see we as a state have been free of Newcastle. All covid did to us was make every chick we could produce was gone in flash .. Here our little town has not had one covid positive