A Gutsy 3 month old Rhode Island Red Rooster??

[Mourningdove]

I have a growout pen for all the young birds here, and in that pen I have 6 rhode island red chicks. While I was out feeding this morning one of them jumped my leg and kept doing it. Now none of them are any older than 3 months old and none of them have crowed so I didn't know if I had any roosters in there or not. Once this little one jumped me I decided to pick it up and check it's neck feathers and I
have decided that it has to be a rooster that hasn't crowed yet!
Now I am wondering is it normal that one so young could be so protective? I just never heard of any rooster doing this at such a young age! He sure seems to be staking his claim already!

 

[Peeper7]

mine started at 5 weeks attacking me and my husband.... has not crowed yet.
we had a discussion this roo and I, and he has not done it for weeks now... who knows what the future holds.

 

[TaLani]

The RIR's that I hatched from sunshinesilkies are beautiful, but boy are they spunky to say the least. The only thing they attack is the feeder though - I'm convinced they are pigs not chickens!

Sunshinesilkies warned me ahead of time though.

Out of 17, I think 3/4 of them are roos, so a lot of them will be sold off. Mine are almost 3 mos old and haven't tried to crow either.

 

[Mourningdove]

I heard that rhode island roosters could be tuff but golly why did this one start so soon?

So how are you girl?

 

[TaLani]

Well, just like my title says under my name, I'm definitely "Overrun with Chickens"! Practically everything that I hatched out has turned out to be roos. So, the RIR's that I mentioned are gonna need to go soon. I posted a for sale ad here on BYC for them. I have other more ornamental type roos that'll need to go eventually, but for now they are staying. It's been SOOOOOO incredibly busy here at the law ofc, I just can't express that enough. Wheww! Job security I suppose though, so that's a good thing. Also, I'm amazed at how hot it's been here in NC already too.

On a side note, a month ago my BIL died unexpectedly of a HA. We could only afford one airplane ticket for my hubby to go & when he came back he said he wanted to start going to church. I was so happy! I always wanted to go, but I wanted the whole family to go. So, we've been going mostly on Sunday mornings, but sometimes on Wed nights too.

How you been Deb???

 

[NYREDS]

Reds tend to be aggressive. They have Game in their background.