Wow, a few weeks? He may continue the same behavior after that isolation. That sounds sad to me. What I do with my own birds where I have a broiler rooster who cannot be in physical contact with his hens is I built him two different outdoor pens each with their own shelter during the day. At night he and his hens go in the barn but he has a massive wire kennel in there for sleeping. He gets to be right near them all the time. When I have them all out together it's supervised, as when he jumps on the hens his enormous body weight and claws will rip open the hens flesh. Before I built the extra pens I used Betadine to clean the hens wounds and they healed well given the separation.
I have one big pen split up with fencing and gates to divide into three pens. He gets variety and socialization without contact and is not going insane from boredom even though he longs to be even closer to his hens.
From: "Flyingafarm1@aol.com" <Flyingafarm1@aol.com>
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, December 3, 2010 7:19:42 AM
Subject: Re: [CHICKENS-101] Quail, so P,O'd [Graphic Picture]
How long are their lights on? More than 14 hours of light a day will make them MEAN, mean and just plain mean to each other. I'd use peroxide (I usually just spray mine w/Blu-kote and put them back in). Put the bad boy in a cage by himself is a darkish corner and leave him in time out for a few weeks :-) Laura
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