Are descendants of fighting cocks mean natuarly?

[centrarchid]

First, let us see a picture of the offending bird. Secondly, some gamecock strains are reputed to be man-fighters and it has a genetic basis to it. A Kelso line we used to make battle crosses with produced a high frequency of man-fighters even when bred to our hens and were handled in a manner similar to how we handled pure and other crosses that where not so problematic. Thirdly, male chickens lacking a strong genetic predisposition to being man-fighters can be conditioned to be so. Messing with a mature game rooster during the heavy part of molt can get a defensive attack. Messing with a cocks hen or chicks can get you attacked as well.

Then you have that aggression related to birds training you to put more feed down.

Let us see the bird.

 

[Bo Garrett]

Is the bird dark faced (mulberry) or red faced? Generally, the dark faced dark eyed birds have a greater tendency to be aggressive, this was my experience with breeding pit games for many years. Once they turn human aggressive they are very rarely broken from it, give him a little time and benefit of the doubt but if he persists, cull him.