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I think it can depend on the breed as to how fast they feather in fully. Our light breed boys have been fully feathered by 5 months old, but a larger breed may take longer.

I can't see it causing any issues. I like to give our little cockerel (he's almost a year old now) the treats so that he gets to be the 'big man' (he's a tiny bantam :lol:) and tell the girls (even though they are already there waiting). He leads the charge too if he sees us coming with treats...

When the older hens are around he knows he's not top dog so won't challenge you. They may even attack him if he ever tried to challenge you in their presence. One of our girls has come to our sons defence when one of our cockerels tried to have a go at him. Your cautious pullet may become more...

If you can no longer enjoy your flock then definitely get rid of the roo. But with the right boy it is possible to still enjoy them. We had that with our Muscovy ducks. The boy we raised and kept turned into an absolute horror. He wouldn't touch me but he would full on attack our 9 year old...

Early morning is the time our boys will crow the most and they generally start around 5am and crow on and off for maybe half an hour. Our English Araucana cockerels crow more than our little bantam boy. Our bantam only crows in the morning but their coop is far from the house, and he sounds...

I wouldn't worry at this stage. Hormones must be stirring and he'll try his luck if he thinks he can get away with it. The more worrying behaviours would be if you see him abusing the hens (our not so nice boy would grab their combs to mount them, leaving them bleeding) or if he tries to...

He is gorgeous! He looks more like a teddy bear than a rooster. 🥰

Our little bantam cockerel never went through a crazy, hormonal phase - he's just slowly gained the respect of the hens. Hopefully your boy will be the same and hopefully he'll catch on soon that offering a tasty treat to the ladies will put him in their good graces. I say just keep doing what...

It does seem that hens and laying pullets are excellent at teaching young cockerels to mind their manners. We put our English araucana cockerels in a separate coop as they were giving the pullets, who aren't laying yet, a hard time. The pullets have their own run but our older birds free range...

Personally I would not put up with that sort of behaviour from a cockerel. We have children and I stress to them that we cannot keep a dangerous animal. Our bantam boy has been a dream and because he's so little and cute it's easy not to be intimidated by him. I respect him and tell him he's...

Our boys have no choice but to put up with our 10 year old son picking them up. 🤣 They don't enjoy it but that's too bad. Hopefully the young ones will continue to mind their manners around him. Keep us posted on how Oscar is doing. Our older cockerel was good around the 2 pullets he grew up...

Probably from around 5 months old he was courting the ladies and trying to impress them. We have a younger English araucana cockerel in a different pen who I never liked as a chick but he's grown on me as he's got older. He started tidbitting recently (at the same age - 5ish months old), except...

The girls are just teaching him not to be a rude jerk. A rooster is either going to be nice, or he is not. We recently raised our first ever cockerels. We had 2 boys from hatch (different breeds) and we treated them both exactly the same. One is the perfect gentleman to the hens...