Calling All Rooster Whisperers

[Folly's place]

Will Martha Stewart have a program about it? OMG! Too funny!
Mary

 

[kwhites634]

My buff brahma cockerel lost his mind today. Very suddenly. He's 25 weeks. Had another cockerel injured last week by him(I think). But this!

Suddenly pecking the hens he doesn't want to mount on their heads HARD, trying to mount the rest very inappropriately. On the ramp, at dusk on the roosts. Stuff like that. Obnoxious. He's locked up right now because he just wouldn't quit tonight.

I have 16 pullets and 3 cockerels. Let's get that out of the way. I know about the ratios but expected losses with a cold fall shipping date. Didn't really think I'd keep everyone but they've been good until now. I'd hoped to get the separate runs finished and get the smaller girls segregated but tick tock I guess. Weather and now being sick has stopped all work.

Do you think he might calm down if he gets segregated for a bit? Or should I assume this guy isn't going to work out? The others were trying to get between him and the pullets tonight but he didn't even see them, just going over them to get the girls.

I know hormones are ugly but this was over the top. He's still fine with me and not fighting beyond that scrap last week. Opinions?

I'd segregate him for a couple weeks, with no other roosters in with him. By the time you put him back he should have lost his dominant position in the pecking order & the other males will run him off the hens...at least that's what it says in the small print.

 

[Ruralhideaway]

i actually settled on this plush toy while searching for a chicken sex doll haha.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/ADORE-12-S...-Baby-Chick-Plush-Stuffed-Animal/232129641987

had to strap some ankle weights around the legs to keep it from moving out from under him but it's definitely his favourite out of all his stuffed toys lol. i think there's definitely a market for chicken sex dolls as the popularity of pet roosters rises

Whoa so now the stuffed chicken has bondage anklets on?!

50 Clucks of Grey

 

[Ruralhideaway]

I am SOOOO glad I planned that in from the beginning,
tho wish I had made it wider than 4'...
...even a 1' poop board makes it tight for me to navigate
(but I'm kinda fat and clumsy with knees that don't squat or kneel anymore).
I use it as a brooder/growout area, and right now there's a broody in there.
The first thing I used it for was a rogue cockerel over the first winter.

I'm not nearly as svelte and limber as I once was either. Do you think even one more foot would have helped? I could maybe go 5 and a 1/2 feet by whatever's reasonable.

 

[aart]

i actually settled on this plush toy while searching for a chicken sex doll haha.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/ADORE-12-S...-Baby-Chick-Plush-Stuffed-Animal/232129641987

That's.just.wrong.
But I'm glad you posted as I wanted a plush chicken for my nephew(who is only a toddler).

Do you think even one more foot would have helped? I could maybe go 5 and a 1/2 feet by whatever's reasonable.

Yes!

I'm not nearly as svelte and limber as I once was either.

I think I am still
until I try a smooth move and my balance tips and/or the knee gives out...
or look in the mirror(who is that old hag!!)

 

[Ruralhideaway]

After further consideration I believe we need to mount the stuffed chicken on a spring deal like those bouncy animals at playgrounds. Then the roo can even believe she's squatting.

 

[Folly's place]

There are no words. Almost no words. No polite family friendly words.
Mary

 

[Ruralhideaway]

There are no words. Almost no words. No polite family friendly words.
Mary

 

[aart]

There are no words. Almost no words. No polite family friendly words.
Mary