4 week old fighters.

[jthornton]

4 weeks is way to early for a roo to crow, I've seen them do a yawn thing from 3 days old. Did you order them sexed? Heat wave... must not be from around here putting your location in your profile helps you get better replies to your questions.

JT

 

[Timmee81]

4 weeks is way to early for a roo to crow, I've seen them do a yawn thing from 3 days old. Did you order them sexed? Heat wave... must not be from around here putting your location in your profile helps you get better replies to your questions.

JT

Cheers. Oddly enough YouTube has lots of videos of baby roosters attempting to crow. Everything’s always so conflicting on these groups so makes it difficult. I played a normal rooster crowing and it stood up and did the same action. Not sure if that means anything.
Have added my location to profile. Thought I did so when joined but seems not. Yes I’m located in South Australia I see many posts on here are extreme cold and I’m having extreme heat so none of the weather related ones have been overly helpful lol

 

[jthornton]

Gooday Mate, while I've only has two roos it was around 12 weeks IIRC before the first scratchy crow. I love the Monty Python skit about American Beer lol.

JT

 

[centrarchid]

 

[centrarchid]

@Timmee81,

In all likelihood, the fighting you are seeing is like that shown by speckledhen. My birds are prone to take it further owing to breed they represent. I have females that do it too and treatment is the same although mother seems to suppress female expression.

The prevention I use is to place combatants in either with a fully mature rooster or a rooster that is at least 3X their size even though he is not mature himself. The bigger male will attack the aggressors each time they give the little cheaps produced when being aggressive. I make certain the larger rooster does not cause trouble in his own right which can usually be figured out in five minutes or less. Then I keep the broods in with the smaller birds until the latter are big enough to place into individual pens.

Another approach is to allow fighters to fight long enough to get sore, then split them up, but keep them in hearing an seeing range just out of reach for about 24 hours. Then put them back together. The aggression of this sort seems to be cyclical with first event occurring about time weaning occurs.

 

[Timmee81]

@Timmee81,

In all likelihood, the fighting you are seeing is like that shown by speckledhen. My birds are prone to take it further owing to breed they represent. I have females that do it too and treatment is the same although mother seems to suppress female expression.

The prevention I use is to place combatants in either with a fully mature rooster or a rooster that is at least 3X their size even though he is not mature himself. The bigger male will attack the aggressors each time they give the little cheaps produced when being aggressive. I make certain the larger rooster does not cause trouble in his own right which can usually be figured out in five minutes or less. Then I keep the broods in with the smaller birds until the latter are big enough to place into individual pens.

Another approach is to allow fighters to fight long enough to get sore, then split them up, but keep them in hearing an seeing range just out of reach for about 24 hours. Then put them back together. The aggression of this sort seems to be cyclical with first event occurring about time weaning occurs.

Thanks for the tips. Greatly appreciated