One of mine crows every morning. If I don't go out, he crows even more for attention and if I go out my front door without going to see him, he crows, too.


He does do a little dance for about 2 seconds when I sit on the ground near him, and he's pretty snuggly when I pick him up. I found a little staple (I have burlap stapled to one side of my run to block from the sun) in the run maybe 2 days ago and went down to pick it up and he bit me.

Not enough to draw blood, but it was a little bite. My pullets do it, too, occasionally. Is there anything I can do to fix that before it becomes an issue? Should I completely ignore his little dances, pecks, etc. or continue to pick him up to calm him down? Or is it best to just wait it out with him a bit longer so his hormones settle a bit? He's a bit protective of the girls now and keeps them together during free ranging, makes sure to warn them of any bird that passes, etc. so I'm hoping he'll be a good little guy, but if he gets aggressive, I suppose it's best to rehome him. (Probably to someone's stew pot, in all reality.

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Also, for anything I've been doing wrong with him, (probably a bit lol) he's almost 4 months - have I completely messed up with him so it's irreparable, or is it possible to still fix any issues I could've caused? It's not ideal, but they're currently separate from 6 of my other pullets that are about a month and a half older so they free range separately, and occasionally he'll wander over to their run and they fight through the bars. I pull him away and pet him to calm him down, so hoping that that hasn't taught him to be aggressive to me. Normally I'd let them work it out, but since he's still smaller than them, I'm hoping to wait until he's a bit bigger. The pullets he grew up in his grow-out pen with are still tiny, too - seem to be all feather and no chicken underneath!