Thanks for the advice once again. I would love to pick him up as you did Doganjo and give him a talking to but I feel a bit wary of him at the moment. If I pluck up the courage, I'll do this and let you know how he responds. I don't want to put him in a pot but would be prepared to do so if necessary. I had hoped to breed some Rhode Island Reds from him but I haven't got a sitter yet. Very funny stories about rather intimate bites -great story Sandy about how high your ex and his twin brother could wee over the chicken hutch. It looks as though they deserved a good pecking.
As well as Bertie and his women, I've got a variety of other hens in an adjacent pen with a cockerel of their own. I've changed the feed for all of them. I now give them wheat, cracked corn and rolled barley with cod liver oil from time to time. This is as a result of reading about hormones being in some layers pellets. Problem is they are laying very little at the moment. I think it could be for a number of reasons - one being the change of feed, another the snow (it has now gone) and another could be that a few of them seem to be moulting. Does anyone have any experience of this? I'll keep going with the new feed for a while to see how it goes. I hope it's not the hormones in the layers pellets making them lay more.
Cheers once again
Brenda