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  1. microchick

    Taming a Rooster?

    I think if you read over some of my posts concerning dealing with Marek's disease you will find that people have no problem at all taking me seriously. And no, I am not confusing humans with animals. They taught me the difference when I went through nursing college. I have my own writing style...
  2. microchick

    Taming a Rooster?

    Rooster/bachelor pens work. I've gotten the best results when I put my extra roosters and over testosteroned young roos in all at once. Adding them usually causes squabbles to break out as they work out their pecking order and cause you to keep the first aid kit handy. I would much rather my...
  3. microchick

    Taming a Rooster?

    I hear what you are saying @jsr5. Which is why I have over 20 roosters. The ones I dispatch have been given every chance to tame down. They are all raised the same, under the same conditions and by the same people. I sincerely believe that aggression can be genetic in nature. There comes the...
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    Taming a Rooster?

    What works for one may not work for another. In my flock there is a general decrease in stress to the hens when an aggressive rooster is removed permanently from the flock and a gentler rooster is allowed to remain. I truly doubt if the roosters that I've had blinded in one eye by an aggressive...
  5. microchick

    Taming a Rooster?

    No but your stress level and the stress level of your flock will decrease dramatically.
  6. microchick

    Taming a Rooster?

    I love roosters but after dealing with a multitude of rooster personalities over the past 4 years I've reached the point that if they aren't going to stop the aggression, they never will. I have about 25 small (1pounders) bantams and bantam roosters and 4 pound bantam cross roosters. From...
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