That's about where I'm at, Tom. I've had chickens & roosters before and have never ran into this problem. I feel like my rooster is actively stalking me now. Not a good start to my Magical Year of Gardening (I am retiring before end of this month...) We're gone for the weekend, so I'll let him live until we return, then off with his head. I can pick up another rooster easily enough from the feed store bulletin board, either now or later. My current thought is to get one a tad younger than my hens so they knock him into shape a bit, and to also give him the head-down treatment as soon as I bring him home.
I have two gold laced wyandottes, and they are my other chickens who hop out of the yard on a regular basis. They both have a penchant for laying their eggs in a nest they built in one of my garden beds. Both nice chickens, they shoo back in easily. Funny that they are the escapees, they are both pretty hefty birds.
