Welcome back Barb2020. I'm new here and relatively new at raising chickens so I probably won't be much help as far as advice, but I just thought I'd say Hello and welcome!
In lieu of putting the mean guy in the crock pot, we simply put him in a separate enclosure in the main enclosure and he was forced to watch all the little chicks from this spring blossom into beautiful hens and didn't get to 'hang out' with them like he would have liked to! Poor guy!
So now...
Oh man, please tell me it didn't just post a very serious letter that my son wrote that was on my clipboard, and then I will tell you how I fixed Stu. Thanks
I guess I never did figure out how to navigate this site because I don't know if this is the correct way to update my previous conversation about really mean roosters.
So, the general consensus about whether or not it was possible to fix a really mean rooster was that it wasn't possible and that...
Tried the net, captured him and left him there the take care of the other birds...til he shredded it! He's horrible! He thinks I'm kidding when I tell him I'm going to make earrings and stew out of him!
Shoot, I had a feeling I should ask you guys if the hose thing was such a good idea. But actually, that night I felt really bad for repeatedly spraying him back into the hen house and felt bad about it and thought to myself that I would be nicer to him the next day. That was the day I just...
I have no idea how the previous owner of the rooster raised him but by reading your reply and bobbi-j's reference to beekeepers blog I can only assume that he was
We of course have no idea how he was raised but by reading your reply and bobbi-j's reference to beekeepers blog I can only assume...
So, are all roosters so mean or mean in general or is his behavior caused by something in the way his previous owner raised him? I mean, if you hold them and give them lots of attention and stuff when they're babies can it prevent a rooster from being mean? I'm new at chickens.