14 week cockerel mating with stuffed animal??

[Sammi_0411]

Hey chickens are like raptors anyways probs why he enjoys cuddly dinosaur

 

[HeatherKellyB]

Out of my many cockerels and roosters, I have one cockerel that does this. His name is Kitty. He hatched out with another cockerel, Zeon. Apparently Zeon isn't interested in being a "wing man" (no pun intended) for Kitty's practice adventures and has taken to attacking Kitty every time he discovers this. I keep telling Zeon that he should be happy that Kitty's not trying to practice on him and let him be. Kitty doesn't really have a preference but now I feel like I need to get him a dinosaur

 

[eclectic-em]

Out of my many cockerels and roosters, I have one cockerel that does this. His name is Kitty. He hatched out with another cockerel, Zeon. Apparently Zeon isn't interested in being a "wing man" (no pun intended) for Kitty's practice adventures and has taken to attacking Kitty every time he discovers this. I keep telling Zeon that he should be happy that Kitty's not trying to practice on him and let him be. Kitty doesn't really have a preference but now I feel like I need to get him a dinosaur

it’s funny because with the dinosaur he bites the tail to hold on and then uh basically does it backwards which is so funny but then i feel bad the dino has uh stuff on its face
sophie and george are my 2 eldest (very new to it all still) so i honestly don’t know if he’ll ever figure it out since there’s no roosters on our property for him to learn from. like maybe he will only ever try with stuffed animals / my arm that one time and sophie is just a platonic life partner for him?! ‍♀

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Early in this thread you asked what "see no touch" means and I didn't see where anybody answered that. Basically it's a method of integrating one group of chickens with another in a way that prevents fighting or damage to either group. You arrange the groups in such a way that they can see each other but can't actually touch or contact each other. I have a bachelor pen adjacent to my chickens' regular run that I put my younger group in. They are side by side, only separated by a chain link fence. I keep them like this for a couple of weeks, till the babies are nearly the size of the Big Girls. Then one day I open the gate between them, and they begin to mingle, none of them realizing the barrier is gone. I have no problems with aggression among them. This is the "see-no-touch" method.

 

[eclectic-em]

Early in this thread you asked what "see no touch" means and I didn't see where anybody answered that. Basically it's a method of integrating one group of chickens with another in a way that prevents fighting or damage to either group. You arrange the groups in such a way that they can see each other but can't actually touch or contact each other. I have a bachelor pen adjacent to my chickens' regular run that I put my younger group in. They are side by side, only separated by a chain link fence. I keep them like this for a couple of weeks, till the babies are nearly the size of the Big Girls. Then one day I open the gate between them, and they begin to mingle, none of them realizing the barrier is gone. I have no problems with aggression among them. This is the "see-no-touch" method.

THANK YOU!! Which makes sense. I basically did that for my latest chicks because I wanted all my kiddos in the same place so my time wouldn’t be split so they’re in a “chicken jail” in the back corner of my photo. and i figured integration would be so much easier if they’ve already shared the same space for weeks!!

our barn/coop that’s attached to the barn is being redone next month so i’ll definitely keep that in mind to have a way to separate more than just the chicks/big kids !!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

THANK YOU!! Which makes sense. I basically did that for my latest chicks because I wanted all my kiddos in the same place so my time wouldn’t be split so they’re in a “chicken jail” in the back corner of my photo. and i figured integration would be so much easier if they’ve already shared the same space for weeks!!

our barn/coop that’s attached to the barn is being redone next month so i’ll definitely keep that in mind to have a way to separate more than just the chicks/big kids !!

Sounds like a plan! Good luck. And enjoy your flock!

 

[Ascholten]

You pick that thing up it's gonna shatter like glass.
Maybe if you took his toys away he'd start looking at the real thing?

Thats almost as bad as the time my cockatoo humped the handle on my coffee cup. Ex-Coffee cup, it went into the trash after that......

Aaron