aggressive at 6 weeks

[ellend]

And lots of ethnic groups (and everyone else) still fight chickens...
Don't make your aggressive roo someone else's injury.
Why should men have to do the dirty work? Do what has to be done, as quickly and humanely as humanly possible.

 

[ellend]

Caponizing him would make him much more docile, but most people aren't comfortable doing surgery... If you are in an Amish / Mennonite area, you might find somebody experienced at doing it.

 

[Miks]

Caponizing him would make him much more docile, but most people aren't comfortable doing surgery... If you are in an Amish / Mennonite area, you might find somebody experienced at doing it.

Well now I had to look that one up! Oh my! I always learn something new following theses posts!

 

[allbreednut]

Sounds as if you got an Old English Game or at least one with Old English blood (since you used the word "tiny").

Most people who like Old English Game Bantams or Modern Game Bantams think it's cute that the roosters peck them -- as viciously as possible. I never developed a fondness for it (ahem) ... But it's bred into them, descended from the pit games ("fighting cocks") of the old days. If you don't think it's cute, better pick another breed.

Anything that never misses a chance to bite the hand that feeds it had better be REALLY cute if it intends to stick around my place.

 

[Folly's place]

Nobody is that cute here!
Mary

 

[jspeese]

A rooster is always a possibility unless you get sex-linked or autosexing chicks. Even the best vent sexers are only 90-95% accurate. And if you live in a community that doesn't let you have roosters, you don't have much choice. I supposedly got all hens in my present flock of NH reds and Delawares, but wound up with a NH red rooster. When he got a little over a year old, he turned into the meanest chicken I ever had. He drew blood on me a couple of times, and I took him back to the feed store.

 

[Miks]

Nobody is that cute here!
Mary

 

[LadyGunnar]

Sounds as if you got an Old English Game or at least one with Old English blood (since you used the word "tiny").

Most people who like Old English Game Bantams or Modern Game Bantams think it's cute that the roosters peck them -- as viciously as possible. I never developed a fondness for it (ahem) ... But it's bred into them, descended from the pit games ("fighting cocks") of the old days. If you don't think it's cute, better pick another breed.

Anything that never misses a chance to bite the hand that feeds it had better be REALLY cute if it intends to stick around my place.

He is a naked neck. I use the word tiny because he is 6 weeks old and there is not much too him. He is still double or triple his hatch mates. He is the same size as my frizzles that are 3 weeks older.

 

[denisesoderlind]

We rehomed 4 roos so far. Our chickens are very dear to us and once they got with their own hens they were happy and content. This is Lucy at his new home.

 

[JAFig]

Most of my roos (all the really mean ones) were euthanized and donated to a wildlife rescue. None were sold to strangers or given away as I did not want them to become cock-fight bait.