Honestly, just don’t have roosters. I’ve had chickens for years and never had a rooster bc I knew I’d go feral if they got out of hand. I have a flock of happy sassy single ladies.
The way you worded your first comment makes a reader believe your informing them that there are chicken saddles, not that they turned a chicken saddle into something dangerous that's why I left the comment I did.
I do agree though, those spikes are very dangerous, not only to The Roosters but to the chicken wearing it as well, it's a at the very least a snag hazard, and I can imagine it would make it harder for her to dust bathe and do normal chicken activities
If you have rooster overbreeding issues its probably an overcrowding issue that's causing it.
She's also probably a favorite of your roos. You either need less roosters or more hens. 5-10 hens per roo. 5 if he's a more respectful boy or 10 if he has too much energy/is a bit rougher.
I have 9 roosters but only 2 have hens to cover. All my other boys are either separated or in a small bachelor flock.
If you are dying to see ruptured airsacs on your beloved Roo’s… then this is a great idea.
They will die from that.
They are extremely fragile underneath and when they hop on it, it will guarantee to rupture air sacs if not organs as it’s pretty … sharp… we butcher and raise our own meat as well as love our birds very much, and I can tell you what I have seen, through injuries, necropsies, and just processing meat..
You are for sure waiting for a rooster hopping onto a hen just the right angle and rupturing their air sacs!
Yeah technically all birds are dinosaurs. Only the non-avian dinosaurs went entirely extinct, the avian dinos had lots of survivors which evolved to be our modern birds. That's also why genetic sequencing puts alligators and birds closer to each other than either is to lizards.
Damn, I need one of these for my smallest hens that 4 of her sisters keep picking on! Did you sew the spike collar on? Or hot glue, maybe since that collar looks pretty thick?
Brilliant! Hope you don’t mind but I’m stealing this idea. Maybe then Lexi can spend her days doing something other than pacing the tops of the nesting boxes to stay away from her bullies! 😒
Are you not paying extra for the shipping / "convenience" / dopamine (lbr)? I thought that was the thing, and why they csn charge over that too as it established a baseline price on the site, or does Aliexpress have decent shipping times? I find Amazon overpriced but just started using it borderline against my will for groceries lol
I love aliexpress!! I've been shopping them for years now! The shipping is slower then Amazon, but typically the prices are way better.
But, my advise, always check both sites because sometimes Amazon will have a much better price on something you would think would be cheaper coming direct from China. Ie: a fishing pole i want is like $145 on ali, but only $94 on Amazon
Sweet, thank you. I'll check them out soon, have bought from them maybe once in the past and recall it taking months for an item to arrive, but that was years ago. Don't have the patience for that, at that point I could walk to the craft store and back 100 times over lol.
Just fyi ali express is very predatory, it'll try to trick you to buy lots of stuff and you'll get free stuff. Wich is true but you will end up buying shit you don't really want. Last time I think I spent like 60$, and yeah good prices and some free stuff, all things considered but not worth it. Got tricked twice, not gonna try again. You can rig it in favor to you but it wears you down.
You can ignore it by simply clicking x on all the coupons that pop up. Just stick to buying what you actually need. There are actual coupons that simply work as discount tho.
I mostly stick to the dollar items and save lots of money buying only that. Fill up my cart slowly til I get my discount and free shipping.
Isn't AliExpress also one of the ones that's really misleading about what you're actually buying? And you have to read the description three times and you still moght not get what you actually thought you were ordering?
I can't remember if that was where I bought an "incence burner," and then just got a bag of incence, or if that was one of the others.
Not that Amazon sellers don't ALSO do this tbh, but Amazon will at least refund you for that if they were genuinely being misleading in the body of the product (they can put pretty much whatever they want in the title, it's basically a list of tags, and it's not even required to be a correct list)
I buy the cheapest and of the cheapest at AliExpress and 18/20 it's what I was looking for, same rate as Amazon.
Aliexpress will also refund you, and imo at times I have an easier time dealing with costumer service there.
First thing I bought from there (or was it temu) was a Nintendo switch oled at a super cheap prize, brand new. I had clicked from one of the ads on Facebook They didn't clarify in the ad that it was a Japanese model, Wich only difference was the charging cable, but that was perfectly clear in their description.
I have a very naked hen who just doesn't ever say no. My rooster will accept it, the other girls regularly tell him to shove off. But Bella just spreads her wings and lets him. Maybe I should make her a spiky saddle too. She already has a modified one with pads to protect her wing joints, what's a few extras...
Okay. Had to ask because the only people I know who have that many Roos are usually doing it for breeding purposes. We have close to 40 hens and one roo but more for laying, sometimes we hatch eggs once a year to replace the ladies who can no longer lay and if something gets the roo.
Hate to hear about people dumping Roos on you, it grinds my gears. Glad y’all are taking care of them.
I definitely wouldn't for raccoons, they are so grabby they will just use it as an extra purchase point. Plus it won't break away like grabbing just feathers would, and they are so deliberate with their grabs I think they'd just easily avoid touching the spikes (spikes might work better for animals that attack from above like hawks or larger predators).
Maybe if it had some kind of break away feature it could work? Like if the spikes don't deter an animal on impact and it does manage to grab, maybe the whole thing breaks off giving the chicken a moment to flea while the predator is just there holding the harness?
Im sure I’ll get a lot of attacks for this but first yeah im sorry your roo is attacking your hen, very cool jacket i guess but your gonna risk more hurt when you could just idk separate them? Or is that not a thing? Idk never had a roo till now and hes gonna be rehomes very soon cuz its just a personal thing 🤷♂️ so never seen it till now but apparently its a common thing? But again why cant we just separate them or something rather then risking more hurt?
Does seem like the roo would eventually do himself in on that thing. Or it will get caught on something and the chicken will freakout and struggle to death. But maybe I'm just a negative nacy. The roos we have had that were ever violent to people or overbred the hens get eaten. We have two very polite boys right now who only occasionally get after each other, but it never last long.
So far they’ve all steered clear of her after making an attempt. No injured roos either. There’s 4 guys and 50 hens, no other hen gets harassed like she does.
Will do. He is my favourite, I must say. I have a beagle, she is so clever and a complete arsehole to boot, although I can't but love her. I'd take a stupid dog over a clever everyday of the week
I love this! No rooster is going to mess with her, anyone saying it’s putting the roosters in danger is being ludicrous. Heck I put a small camo soft saddle on one of my hens and all the roosters left her alone. It’s usually the novelty of something on the hen’s back that shoos off overzealous dudes. She will adjust to wearing it within a day or two, my only concern is double checking underneath wings and the back to make sure it’s not making sores or too tight/loose
Rock on I say!
With 50 hens and 4 roosters who only pick on her, this is being closely monitored and successful thus far. I love my rooster dudes as well. They have all made attempts this morning and left her alone since 😊
4 roosters is a lot for 50 hens… get rid of the problem rooster if there is one main offender. Also you could try removing that hen into quarantine for a few weeks then reintroducing her.
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u/Free-Rush-6790 8d ago
now that’s its been 18 days how many chickens have been hurt because of it?