Abe Yonder
Hatching
- May 3, 2019
- 2
- 5
- 9
I started with one red rooster and two black hens. Their eggs go in an incubator and are raised in a pen but when they are big enough to go over the fence they hang out around the house.
One little chick turned out to be a white hen, all the others are red, brown, or black. All the roosters chase the white one and have stripped her back of feathers and so I brought her in the house to protect her. The roosters ignore the other hens but when she goes out they all jump on her and she has to be rescued and brought back in. I have to keep running the roosters out of the house that come in after her when I leave the bedroom window or door open She is now a house-pet, sleeps on the top book shelf and lays her eggs somewhere in the house. Is there any way to protect a hen that is for some reason more attractive to the roosters than the other hens.
One little chick turned out to be a white hen, all the others are red, brown, or black. All the roosters chase the white one and have stripped her back of feathers and so I brought her in the house to protect her. The roosters ignore the other hens but when she goes out they all jump on her and she has to be rescued and brought back in. I have to keep running the roosters out of the house that come in after her when I leave the bedroom window or door open She is now a house-pet, sleeps on the top book shelf and lays her eggs somewhere in the house. Is there any way to protect a hen that is for some reason more attractive to the roosters than the other hens.