Aggressive rooster?

[flapjackfarm]

Hi all! I need help with an aggressive rooster. He's a 4 month old Gold Laced Sebright Bantam and I noticed him picking on my Old English Game Bantam hen a few times today. I mean picking on to the point of making my poor Henny screech. I mentioned it to my father-in-law (whom I share my chickens with) and he said the roo has got to go. Before I break up my flock and rehome my roosters (there are 3 in total, the 2 others are also Old English Game Bantams), does anyone have any advice on how to keep the aggressiveness at bay?

 

[GitaBooks]

Yeah, sebrights are meanies. I love them, I'm working with them in a hybrid, but they are meanies. I tried to stop my sebbie roo from fighting with my other rooster and attacking me, but it didn't work.
Teen roos can make hens scream, I hear it pretty regularly when my roos are growing up, but once they mature they tend to be calmer, especially if they are the only roo around.

I hope this helps. Best of luck!

 

[flapjackfarm]

Thank you! I will keep it in mind, but I have a feeling my in-laws will still want to get rid of him. With the two other roos, I feel like it could become problematic. I'm new to chicken raising, so I wasn't exactly sure how to go about it. It seemed like it was a flip of the switch. I visit my birds multiple times during the day (I'm a stay at home mom) and up until this morning all of the chickens were wonderful. Tonight when I tried to enter the coop, the Sebright and one of the other roos tried pecking me over and over, haha.

 

[GitaBooks]

My Sebright and OEGB would gang up together to try to corner me. Once we got rid of our Sebbie the OEGB roo, Acorn, became far nicer and very meek. He is the lowest of our roosters in the pecking order.

 

[flapjackfarm]

I kind of feel like that might be the case here. They started going after me for the first time tonight, but I've been seeing the roos pick on my hens for a few weeks now. It seems the one OEGB is much nicer and doesn't cause as much trouble.

 

[Folly's place]

Welcome! Your cockrels are maturing (teenagers!) and developing into who they want to be. Human aggressive cockrels need to go, either into your crockpot, or to someone else WITH FULL DISCLOSURE. Walk through your flock, and your boys should get out of your way. Pick up a pullet, and they should watch but not go after you. Keep the nice cockrel and get rid of the others. Mary

 

[flapjackfarm]

Is there anyway to help mold their personalities or will they just be the way they want to be?