Why Do Hens Run Before Mating?

[JacinLarkwell]

A poultry business needs way more than 5 birds. You won't have enough eggs to sell besides individually for hatching or occasional dozens for eating.

 

[mastercaster]

A poultry business needs way more than 5 birds. You won't have enough eggs to sell besides individually for hatching or occasional dozens for eating.

Yes I Think I should buy more chickens. Thansk for the advice!

 

[ro ro]

One rooster and two hens ... you need more hens, I'm thinking. I agree with the other posters. Your problem is you don't have enough hens. The rooster is hurting them by breeding them too much. You need about ten hens per rooster. If the hens are happy, they won't run from him. They are telling you he is hurting them.

not sure about that i have 2 roosters and 30+ hens they still run b4 the rooster mounts them All same age arrived april 1 2021

 

[HollowOfWisps]

not sure about that i have 2 roosters and 30+ hens they still run b4 the rooster mounts them All same age arrived april 1 2021

It's because you have a very young flock just coming into sexual maturity. Your roosters are in the teenage hormonal phase often making them extra rough/horny and your hens are just learning mating behavior often making them scared still trying to figure out what mating is.

 

[ElizaMay]

how can I fix this? Any tips? Should I lock them on a cage together?

You should get another rooster. They are literally a dime a dozen or cheaper.
Forcing any creature to mate unwillingly has a name. It's pretty distasteful, every creature has feelings and fears, and reacts to unpleasantness.

 

[ElizaMay]

not sure about that i have 2 roosters and 30+ hens they still run b4 the rooster mounts them All same age arrived april 1 2021

And that is the exact trouble, as HollowOfWisps mentions.
Cockerels are well known to be insanely horney and rough because their brains are totally on distributing sperm, not on who or how they do it. They are generally sexually mature months before theirfemsale hatchmates are, the equivalent of 19year old boys with 12 & 13 year old girls - no way the girls are ready.
It should always be a mature rooster with hens, and many mature roosters will not mate with pullets or pullets on POL.
I still have my two May cockerels segregated, (they will not see the females till spring 22) and the May pullets are integrated now with the main flock, and just starting to lay now. Yet my mature rooster still pecks them lightly if they get too close to him as he eats, while he invites the older hens to dine on his finds.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I have pullets and cockerels just coming 4 months old, and an 18-month old rooster. About a month ago the roo began soliciting the pullets, and then one day he tried to mount one, who ran screaming away from him. The next day I moved him and the cockerels into the bachelor pen, and there they'll stay until ALL of the pullets are laying eggs. That's when I'll know they're old enough to tolerate a rooster. (The cockerels are headed for the freezer.) As other posters have said, pullets are in no way ready to be bred just because their same-age male flockmates are ready to breed them.