Before I pinch his little head off is this normal

[nonseq]

All my RIR or RIR-cross roos have been mean. Except for one. He was sweet. Should have kept him. I've had two Cochin roos that were tractable and not aggressive toward humans. Although they were so large and busy that their favorite hens were going bald.

 

[Knight Hawk Ranch]

I have rir and my older roo keeps the younger in line. I think it helps if there is an established male in teaching the younger males how they should behave. Reggie, my older roo will stomp the snot out of Jr. (his son). I have 9 hens and plan to use Jr on some of them at a later date. By the time this happens he will have settled some and learned he needs to court the girls before doing his job.

I went through several roos that (rir) I would have to repeatedly remind who was boss. Reggie only tried me once or twice and is quite happy to walk the other way when a person comes around. Jr is walking in his footsteps.

I have one BPR roo that is nasty as all get out and as soon as I get a roo chick to take his place, he is going in the soup pot. He is in a breeder pen with my one hen so it isn't so much an issue. If he had free range he would already be history. I think if I had gotten him as a youngster, he would not be so mean.

 

[bambi]

StormyMoon I think this is worth trying out. Should I put his pen in the chicken house with the hens @ night?

 

[HenPen]

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Same here my RIR was evil!!

 

[StormyMoon]

Oh Geez Nursing home NO NO NO......I want to be like my Mother in law who keeps very active with her chickens and cows she is 91 yrs old the woman walks faster than I can. I have to take extra steps just to keep up with her. Thats why I got chickens in the first place to get me out of the house.

 

[imthedude]

i have a great chicken noodle soup that i'd be happy to pass on to you. seems perfect for such an occasion....

 

[cpegram]

I have a 13 week old RIR roo that is already hopping on only my silkies ugh............plenty of others but he picks them....at first i didn't know that is what he was doing I thought he was picking on them.....ugh but at least so far he doesn't go after people

 

[kano]

Young roos are almost always a nuisance. I have the same bad experience every time I keep one of the male chicks for future rooster. When they become at "that age", the poor hens start to live in constant fear, mostly the old ones. Another diferent thing is when you introduce an old roo in a flock of hens. The rooster acts with a lot of delicacy.

 

[StormyMoon]

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I missed this , I think if you put him where he can see them it may irritate him more cause if he is all sex drive and no sense he isn't going to think kindly of being teased with them flaunting them self around him and they will circle his cage.

I would put him some place quiet for a short time and then have like play dates when you can supervise.
Then he goes back where he needs to.

When he has matured a little more and starts behaving better I would then put them all back together.

 

[meriruka]

I've got a few mean roos. They attack prettty much anything & everything. There's a pair who will go after any men who step on the property, one chased the heater guy back to his van and another scared the mail lady so bad she chucks my packages on the lawn rather then get out of the car to put them on the porch. (She was not injured in any way, just frightened.)

Usually when they come after me I either stick out my foot & let them batter themselves on my shoe or I grag their legs when they jump & hold them upside down 'till they relax then flip them upright & carry under my arm for a while.

The reason I'm fine with them is that they are the first line of defense for my hens against predators. I want them to take the brunt of an attack and give my hens time to get away or at least hold off an attacker long enough for me to get out there and take care of things. I guess I just see them as 'doing their job'.