Your roosters bullying young hens

[Poultney300]

I have 10 older hens and 4 14 week old hens and 2 14 week old roosters which attach the young hens jointly on a regular basis, one mounts and the pecks their heads what do I do?

 

[HappyClucker7]

Are you sure they're pecking the heads, and not just holding on for balance?

 

[Poultney300]

Are you sure they're pecking the heads, and not just holding on for balance?

No one grabs by the back and mounts and the other pecks her head, these hens are not laying and are terrified

 

[HappyClucker7]

No one grabs by the back and mounts and the other pecks her head, these hens are not laying and are terrified

Can you post a video of what you're describing?

 

[Poultney300]

Can you post a video of what you're describing?

I don’t have one, but they only do when the older hens are not around the roosters are twice the size of the hens their age (14 weeks) don’t mount my layers, i was goi g to separate the hens from the Roos but someone said that may make it worse

 

[HappyClucker7]

They might be fighting over who gets to mount. I've seen this with my two boys. The head pecking as actually the rooster trying to get the other one off. With mine it never became an issue though.
You have several options:
You could just let the boys do their thing and work it out themselves. It should eventually stop.
You could try putting some pine tar on the girl's heads (chickens hate the taste), to try and discourage the behavior.
You could build a bachelor coop for the boys to live in.
You could rehome one of the boys and keep the other.

 

[Poultney300]

They might be fighting over who gets to mount. I've seen this with my two boys. The head pecking as actually the rooster trying to get the other one off. With mine it never became an issue though.
You have several options:
You could just let the boys do their thing and work it out themselves. It should eventually stop.
You could try putting some pine tar on the girl's heads (chickens hate the taste), to try and discourage the behavior.
You could build a bachelor coop for the boys to live in.
You could rehome one of the boys and keep the other.

 

[Poultney300]

They might be fighting over who gets to mount. I've seen this with my two boys. The head pecking as actually the rooster trying to get the other one off. With mine it never became an issue though.
You have several options:
You could just let the boys do their thing and work it out themselves. It should eventually stop.
You could try putting some pine tar on the girl's heads (chickens hate the taste), to try and discourage the behavior.
You could build a bachelor coop for the boys to live in.
You could rehome one of the boys and keep the other.

Thank you! I have the 10 older girls in a larger coop will move the mew hens in there, they spend the day all together, and leave the 2 Roos separated and see if that helps otherwise one may need to go. I don’t want the young ones terrified and the two of the Roos have not divided the females so they pick on the same two repeatedly

 

[Mellowmalt]

you need to stop this how ever you do it. The hens will take about half a year to regrow their neck feathers. On the sides they grow back much slower than on the back of their neck.

If it was me I would just take out or separate the young hens. Let the older hens teach the boys some manners first.

 

[Poultney300]

you need to stop this how ever you do it. The hens will take about half a year to regrow their neck feathers. On the sides they grow back much slower than on the back of their neck.

If it was me I would just take out or separate the young hens. Let the older hens teach the boys some manners first.

Yes the one rooster who seems to be the bully is a huge Easter egger/ Americauna and he is with the big girls if the red one bothers them he will be isolated as well and tonight the young hens and the pledger ones will coop together. First pic is the evil Ozzie second in the front is the other rooster Boyd not as bad