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  1. Phoenix1

    Aggressive Rooster?

    A late reply, but was posting on another thread and thought I'd give a rooster follow up. Not long after my last post we ended up culling the rooster after all. He attacked me on two separate occasions, and that was more than enough to convince me. His earlier behavior was definitely an...
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    Momma hen chasing off her young chicks

    She doesn't do this with the other chicks, that's what's so puzzling. She's chasing away the two Barreds but not the others. If fact, we just noticed today that the other chicks are starting to mimic the momma hens behavior towards the Barreds, so we're going to separate them tonight since we...
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    Momma hen chasing off her young chicks

    We don't have a rooster and one of our hens became broody. We really needed to replenish our flock, so we slipped in some of my friends fertilized eggs in place of some of the unfertilized clutch eggs she was sitting on. We marked them to know which ones to keep an eye on. After only four of...
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    Aggressive Rooster?

    I'm not sure how long I'm willing to wait to see if his hormones subside or if he mellows with age. I'm strongly leaning towards culling this type of behavior, but my husband doesn't consider this aggressive enough behavior to merit culling. Hence the reason for feedback.
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    Aggressive Rooster?

    We currently have a flock of 8 chickens. We have a Wydandotte cockerel / rooster that is just now turning one year old. We purchased him along with a batch of "guaranteed" pullets last Spring. Our other rooster had died months before, so we thought it was great timing for this pullet to...
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