Aggressive Roo...but we want two!

[bzender]

I have 22 hens half being bantam with 2 bantam roosters and they do great together. The older of the two is the dad of the other. If the younger goes for ladies that aren't his he gets chased but nothing ever comes of it. They are bantam columbian wyandottes. Wyandottes are a very cold hardy breed, they are very alert and can be very docile especially if you hold them a lot when they are young. My older rooster sounds like he is purring like a cat when I hold him. Bantam wyandottes are something I would recommend looking into even if you just keep standard hens.

 

[DanEP]

. I would get rid of the mean roo and if your getting chicks this spring just get 2 cockerels with them. If they grow up together they tend to get along better than meeting as adults. And I agree roo's raised with older hens seem to behave better, the older girls seem to teach them better manners.
I have grandkids running around here quite often and will not keep a mean roo. To me no rooster is worth taking a chance of him hurting one of the kids, there are far to many peaceful guys out there to be had.

 

[One Chick Two]

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Please show this photo to your husband.
Here is one pen of our Black Copper Marans cockerels, along with dad in the back. Some breeds of males can live together and be fine- usually with very minimal altercations.


We always put our boys in with balanced adult males, and then full grown hens while growing up. These cockerels are over a year old now, and they still get along very well as long as they have decent sized pens. All the boys are human friendly, and will eat treats gently from your hand, but, we socialize them daily. We have probably have 40 males right now, none of them have ever displayed aggressiveness. Four were wild, full grown adults when purchased, and even they are friendly now.

We had one juvie long ago who was a biter. I kept calm and did not react when he did it. He eventually gave up, and grew out of that. Also have over 10 roosters in a freerange group too, and they work well together. They will sleep on the roosts next to each other, and dustbathe, etc.

When dealing with roosters, always be calm no matter what happens, and be consistent. Hope you find some good boys! Great, sweet roosters are out there.

 

[aart]

Quote:

Please show this photo to your husband.
Here is one pen of our Black Copper Marans cockerels, along with dad in the back. Some breeds of males can live together and be fine- usually with very minimal altercations.


We always put our boys in with balanced adult males, and then full grown hens while growing up. These cockerels are over a year old now, and they still get along very well as long as they have decent sized pens. All the boys are human friendly, and will eat treats gently from your hand, but, we socialize them daily. We have probably have 40 males right now, none of them have ever displayed aggressiveness. Four were wild, full grown adults when purchased, and even they are friendly now.

We had one juvie long ago who was a biter. I kept calm and did not react when he did it. He eventually gave up, and grew out of that. Also have over 10 roosters in a freerange group too, and they work well together. They will sleep on the roosts next to each other, and dustbathe, etc.

When dealing with roosters, always be calm no matter what happens, and be consistent. Hope you find some good boys! Great, sweet roosters are out there.

That's great pic, nice birds.
I assume all these males are not housed with females but in a 'bachelor' coop?

 

[One Chick Two]

That's great pic, nice birds.
I assume all these males are not housed with females but in a 'bachelor' coop?

Thank you aart. Yes, these particular males are housed in a bachelor pen, but next to female pens and a breeding pen. The freerangers are all housed together in a large henouse, and the males often sleep next to each other on the roosts. Some seem to be good friends.

Here are some of BCM roosters with PR roosters in with the freerangers.


I think there are 6 of the roosters in this photo. We find they seem to like to have many multiple roosters when out together, and they call out to each other. Sometimes the males hang out just boys, or a few roosters with just a few hens as well. As long as there's room, plenty of females, food, socialization, we very rarely have had issues. The PR roosters and Partridge Cochin are 2 years old and don't seem to mind the younger males. They also have a much older OEGB rooster in with them, and he rules the roost over everyone.

 

[aart]

Quote: That's pretty cool stuff......goes to show that with the proper management and a continuing good status quo many things are possible.