Guard Pullet...

[Wingdo]

As ridiculous as it sounds, we have what can only be described as a "Guard Pullet."

Our youngest girl decided she was going to pet the bantams, as there are a couple that are almost too relaxed, due mainly to the little girl that was raising them for us. As she bent over to pet one little hen, a bantam rooster thought he might like a piece of her, but before he could do his thing a Cochin/RIR pullet (also raised by the same little girl) jumped over the bantam pullet and on top of cocky rooster, smashing him into the dirt and causing him to run like his tail was on fire! Paige, 4, didn't really understand what it was all about at first but figured out it wasn't a good thing when I got out the pellet rifle and crossed the little rooster off of our get shed of list.

Needless to say, the little rooster is now in the frig awaiting his turn at flavoring a pot pie... as soon as I can figure out which other cockerel/rooster will help out in this endeavor.

[Cyngbaeld]

Good for that pullet!

One banty roo doesn't make much of a pie, does he?

[lauriej57]

I witnessed an odd thing tonight myself. I have a RIR rooster that we've had for 4 to 6 weeks now, he's about 6 month sold, my pullets are 5 months old. I also have 4 hens.

I let them out to free range tonite and at one point, he got on one of the pullets, and Wilma, who's half his size, knocked him off, and he let her. A little while later, he's on one of the other pullets, and Wilma does it again. This time though, he gave her a look, a stare, and he ran off the other way. Mine you, when I downsized my flock of hens, Wilma was one of my misfits, they pecked her head raw last winter, we had to amputate a toe this spring, and I've never known just exactly what kind of chicken she was.

Since I've downsized my hens, she has doubled in size, her comb has grown amazingling, I now realize she is a black leghorn. She has always been an excellent layer, and I'm not sure why she feels able to go up against this rooster. I've never seen him try to mount her.

i daresay she would do the same thing if he went after one of us.