Are Polish roosters supposed to be spastic?

[ballfarm]

Hello All, This is my first post. I hope I'm doing this right. I have, what I believe to be, a golden polish rooster. I call him Mo - since he looked like he had a mohawk when he was younger. He is almost 5 months old now. He was the "exotic" chicken McMurray Hatchery threw in the box. He is gorgeous! But so spastic! He is a loner. He is easily spooked and you can't get close to him, even though his feathers are all in his eyes. I have 3 Barred Rock Roos that tend to pick on him. The hens (there's 30 of them) don't pay him much attention to him. Is this normal? Am I doing something wrong? My husband thinks we should seperate him from the flock. What do you think?

 

[LynnGrigg]

Mine is! if you trim the feathers so he can see, he'll be more confident. It worked for our 23 week old buff laced guy.

 

[peeps7]

Wow ballfarm, were neighbors!!!!! What part of burlington do you live in? I doubt your doing anything wrong, just trim his feathers a little bit.

 

[ballfarm]

Thanks for the help!

Mo is going to get a feathercut! We are located off of HWY 62 near the Caswell Cty border.......where are you located peeps 7? How long have you had chickens?

 

[peeps7]

I live in G-ville. I haven't had chickens very long but I'm know my stuff pretty well.

 

[ballfarm]

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The trip to g-ville is beatiful. I went thru the college one time...ate a really good mexican restaurant. having chickens has been a great experience for my whole family! they are fun to watch....we had our first egg on 10/06/2007 my son was so proud...is it ok to eat the first egg? it seems like a normal egg just smaller......

 

[peeps7]

It is perfectly fine to eat the first egg!!!!! I'd love to see some of your chickens. I'll post some pics of mine if you want me to.

 

[ballfarm]

I'd love to see your chickens! I have some pics of my flock.......but I'm not sure how to get the images on here.....yet

 

[peeps7]

O.k!!! I'll post pics. Hold on for a few minutes.

 

[ballfarm]

Sorry peeps7 I don't think I will be able to share my pics from work.......my network administrater won't let me upload anything not even an avatar...gotta love corporate america...i'll try tonight from my home pc