Oh gosh, especially the hens. I have a little Japanese bantam that was always on the bottom of the order and the roosters favorite. Now I can't put her with any bird her size because she tries to actually injure them.
I wouldn't say so.
i've seen (haven't encountered it personally apart from once and it was quite delayed, so unsure what happened there) where people have 2 [or 3 or 4 or 5] males, including a very submissive male that is treated poorly by the others. They cull the assertive ones, keep the...
I had a pullet in the same situation. Who k ows why, but when she w!s within sight of a male, or worse, multiple, they all dropped whatever (or in one case, whoever) they were doing and ran to breed her. Never figured out why.
We separated her and let her roam with rhe respectful older male...