![]() ![]() ![]() They may even stay on the roosts to make it harder for him to get to them. Especially if your room is a little tight the girls may stay in the coop while the boy is outside. Often this feather loss looks a lot worse to humans than it really is but I don't dismiss it lightly.Īnother possibility is that the girls don't want to be mated but the boys insist. This can lead to serious injury or death. Chickens will sometimes (not always but the risk is real) peck at a wound, maybe even becoming cannibals. The risk if a lot of feathers are lost is that his claws or beak may cut her and cause a wound. It is not unusual for a few feathers to occasionally be lost during mating. There would be no fertile eggs without the head grab. The head grab is the girl's signal to instinctively raise her tail put of the way so he can hit the target. Part of the mating act is that the male grabs the back of the female's head with his beak. ![]() That might create a bare spot where he is standing. The male hops on her back and holds on with his claws. One aspect is that the pullet or hen can lose feathers during mating. If it is violent there is a risk of injury. The immature girls don't know what is going on but they do know they don't want to be dominated so it is almost always by force. The one on top is dominating the one on the bottom, either willingly or by force. He is not trying to fertilize eggs that are not being laid, he is wildly mating them because that's how he establishes dominance. The boy's hormones take over, he has no control. Your biggest risk is when they are immature adolescents. Do you see marauders raping and pillaging as they travel through the countryside? Nothing pleasant about that for the hens. Click to expand.What do you envision "over bred" to look like? It's a scary term. ![]()
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