Yeh Penguin (that's his name) chases them a little, and when they brush past his chest with their tail feathers you see he perks up and looks interested, but then nothing.
My friends own his father and we hand raised him too, but now he's huge and actually quite rough with the ladies, to the point where he harassed them so frequently and frantically, that the hens began to look really stressed, their feathers were a mess/backs of their heads were bold (sometimes even bloody) and they all stopped laying for months, laying again now though.
When I read more about the breed, it says ideally they need between 5 and 6 hens per cockerel which is a few more than average. So I guess the breed is renowned for being randy and a bit rough.
I've got a little buff sussex and she's at the bottom of the pecking order, and I'm worried she might become his prime target.
Anyway, I guess I'll see how it goes. If he starts being a real sex pest I can always sell him, he's so handsome I'm sure it would be easy
My friends own his father and we hand raised him too, but now he's huge and actually quite rough with the ladies, to the point where he harassed them so frequently and frantically, that the hens began to look really stressed, their feathers were a mess/backs of their heads were bold (sometimes even bloody) and they all stopped laying for months, laying again now though.
When I read more about the breed, it says ideally they need between 5 and 6 hens per cockerel which is a few more than average. So I guess the breed is renowned for being randy and a bit rough.
I've got a little buff sussex and she's at the bottom of the pecking order, and I'm worried she might become his prime target.
Anyway, I guess I'll see how it goes. If he starts being a real sex pest I can always sell him, he's so handsome I'm sure it would be easy