Ameraucana Rooster Strutting his stuff Is this my good side??? Its been a while since I have had laying hens and a rooster. Went to Wabash Antiques and Feed Store in Houston http://www.wabashfeed.com/ a few years ago and acquired an Ameraucana rooster http://www.ameraucana.org/scrapbook.html and two red laying hens. Little did I know after taking them home that the rooster actually required a harem of hens to keep him from increased copulation with the two hens. So... I went back and purchased four more hens and then things settled down a bit. At sunset each day, the rooster would gather the hens up from free ranging by spreading out his wings to his sides and they would run with him into the coop. The coop was actually an 8' by 10' hurricane fenced dog run with a screen mesh over the top. Inside the coop I placed some cinder block into two columns and made nesting shelves with hay. The soil was covered in hay so that edible insects that the hens so savored w