I would like to see a picture of your rooster. Interesting......
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I would like to see a picture of your rooster. Interesting......
With my duck drakes, the more aggressive boys have deeper coloring, so far. The ones I am really paying attention to are six months old. Two Welsh Harlequin boys particularly. The darker one is far more "male" than the one with lighter red on the chest and not so green a head.On one of the Legbar threads one of the posters is wondering if a thread on rooster's comb size is an indicator of testosterone/aggression. If any of you think this would be of interest, maybe we should invite her over here??
Because they dont feel competition yet. When cockerel gonna start to mate hens n start crowing then things gonna happen.I have two very assertive roosters and one aggressive one. None of them seem to bother with this youngster. No challenges, no fighting, no chasing away. He mixes in easily with any of them.
This PDF was posted on a different thread and I thought it would be good information for the people here:
http://www.usask.ca/wcvm/herdmed/applied-ethology/Bottle-raised males can be very dangerous.pdf
tl:dr Hand raising males leads to greater aggression when they reach sexual maturity because they imprint on the human and see them as sexual competitors once they reach adulthood.
I can say that I raised my jersey giant roosters by hand and they have NOT become aggressive to us. But, Jersey Giants have a reputation for being very gentle. This may be a larger factor for other breeds.