Cream Legbar Pictures

[chicken pickin]

I think your right, It is the year for CL to shine! Take some great CL pics and enter them. Good luck everyone.

 

[laura s]

This is Rude-E with one of his 2 hens. Hehis only 6 months old and has been very sweet. Until yesterday when he jumped at me as I was filling his water. Why is he getting aggressive now? What can I do to prevent this behavior?

 

[ChicKat]

This is Rude-E with one of his 2 hens. Hehis only 6 months old and has been very sweet. Until yesterday when he jumped at me as I was filling his water. Why is he getting aggressive now? What can I do to prevent this behavior?

Wonder if thee is something about water?? I had one that was very sweet -- he has just turned a year old. He has a low tail angle that my flock needs. In the darkest coldest days of winter I brought him inside in a pet carrier (since he was solo anyway in his pen )-- to prevent frostbite -- he has a beautiful straight comb and his crest parts equally one either side of it....he has a lot of good traits. I was filling water too -- after I had been gone and returned - and he jumped a water bottle and punctured it -- - beat it up pretty badly -- So now I don't trust him at all.

But here is the way that I deal with roosters now -- thanks to idea from Sweet Dreaming here on BYC -- I have a water bottle with a squirt top. IF I see the rooster giving me the evil eye -- I start squirting him in the face. At first they don't know what to make of it. Then they move away--- and eventually I only have to shake the bottle doing the rounds of poop scoop and filling feeders and waters and the rooster will mosey away. I know that some folks try dominance behaviors - and holding the rooster down -etc etc. Just teaching the rooster that he isn't alpha to you--- but I love the squirt bottle because I know it won't hurt them, it is very effective, I don't have to run after them catch and dominate (and in this heat too)---- Sometimes I even use it to herd them where I want them to go into the pen to close the door -- just squirt behind them and they will walk away. After only one or two 'confrontations' --- they learn. Downside is you always have to have the bottle handy (I hang it on the coop fence)--- and you have to be aware of where the males ARE -- but in reality -- you may be well advised to do that anyway. HTH.

 

[Sylvester017]

Wonder if thee is something about water?? I had one that was very sweet -- he has just turned a year old. He has a low tail angle that my flock needs. In the darkest coldest days of winter I brought him inside in a pet carrier (since he was solo anyway in his pen )-- to prevent frostbite -- he has a beautiful straight comb and his crest parts equally one either side of it....he has a lot of good traits. I was filling water too -- after I had been gone and returned - and he jumped a water bottle and punctured it -- - beat it up pretty badly -- So now I don't trust him at all.

But here is the way that I deal with roosters now -- thanks to idea from Sweet Dreaming here on BYC -- I have a water bottle with a squirt top. IF I see the rooster giving me the evil eye -- I start squirting him in the face. At first they don't know what to make of it. Then they move away--- and eventually I only have to shake the bottle doing the rounds of poop scoop and filling feeders and waters and the rooster will mosey away. I know that some folks try dominance behaviors - and holding the rooster down -etc etc. Just teaching the rooster that he isn't alpha to you--- but I love the squirt bottle because I know it won't hurt them, it is very effective, I don't have to run after them catch and dominate (and in this heat too)---- Sometimes I even use it to herd them where I want them to go into the pen to close the door -- just squirt behind them and they will walk away. After only one or two 'confrontations' --- they learn. Downside is you always have to have the bottle handy (I hang it on the coop fence)--- and you have to be aware of where the males ARE -- but in reality -- you may be well advised to do that anyway. HTH.

Hi - you are one of the few BYCers that uses the gentle approach to discipline which I like myself. Chickens are smart. They don't need scolding, or a heavy hand, and the gentle approaches are best for us. Now we aren't zoned for roos but the two we had responded great to us even around their hens. I use the gentle approach on my hens. The newer ones that don't know the rules I will gently pick up or calmly herd out of an area I don't want them in and after one or maybe two times they understand fully what the barriers are. I can just say "shoo-shoo" softly and they know to head for the coop if I have to lock them up for the gardener. Sometimes they hear his lawnmower startup and they automatically walk themselves into the coop. I only have a 2-foot rabbit fence separating my garden patio from their foraging yard and they respect the barrier even though they easily can jump or fly over it. Leghorns like to fly and perch high but one time being gently removed from the coop roof and the Leghorn never did it again. Some of these good behaviors become routine and their behaviors get taught to the other hens. Amazing animals!

 

[ChicKat]

Hi - you are one of the few BYCers that uses the gentle approach to discipline which I like myself. Chickens are smart. They don't need scolding, or a heavy hand, and the gentle approaches are best for us. Now we aren't zoned for roos but the two we had responded great to us even around their hens. I use the gentle approach on my hens. The newer ones that don't know the rules I will gently pick up or calmly herd out of an area I don't want them in and after one or maybe two times they understand fully what the barriers are. I can just say "shoo-shoo" softly and they know to head for the coop if I have to lock them up for the gardener. Sometimes they hear his lawnmower startup and they automatically walk themselves into the coop. I only have a 2-foot rabbit fence separating my garden patio from their foraging yard and they respect the barrier even though they easily can jump or fly over it. Leghorns like to fly and perch high but one time being gently removed from the coop roof and the Leghorn never did it again. Some of these good behaviors become routine and their behaviors get taught to the other hens. Amazing animals!

Interesting how fast your chickens learn. There are some videos of trained chickens with 'clicker' training --and it is amazing that they can differentiate between shapes-colors- etc. Walk a little obstacle course....they are bright - beyond just instinct that 's for sure.

There are some theories of animal aggression that aggression against aggression only increases aggressive behavior -- so unless someone truly breaks the animal's spirit (and who would want to do that to a spirited animal?) - it isn't going to work. My dog breed,, responds to aggression with aggression - I wouldnt be surprised if some roosters are the same. ;o)

 

[Sylvester017]

Interesting how fast your chickens learn. There are some videos of trained chickens with 'clicker' training --and it is amazing that they can differentiate between shapes-colors- etc. Walk a little obstacle course....they are bright - beyond just instinct that 's for sure.

There are some theories of animal aggression that aggression against aggression only increases aggressive behavior -- so unless someone truly breaks the animal's spirit (and who would want to do that to a spirited animal?) - it isn't going to work. My dog breed,, responds to aggression with aggression - I wouldnt be surprised if some roosters are the same. ;o)

We're fortunate to be retired and spend the extra time socializing our little backyard girls so they happen to learn fast. I'm not sure someone with multiple pens or breeds who also hold down daytime jobs have that luxury - but even when we worked days and came home to our Rotties they were at the ready to receive our soft-voice commands (working dogs, you know, so they love something to do). They learned some commands in hand-signals - we used a foreign language for their voice commands. Cats love to do their own thing in their own time but if we said "Out" she went out and waited at the open door to enter until we gave the "Come" command. We always wondered if we were lucky to get smart animals or if it was the method we handled/trained them. Chickens are so much smarter than the average citizen gives them credit. Routine is good training. They like consistency. Put a new object in their coop or yard and watch them puzzle or avoid it until they realize it won't hurt them. I had to re-home an aggressive bird once and went to visit her. She was in a much larger less-socialized flock and avoided me when I called her name. I then said the name of her old buddy in my flock at home and she perked up her head and walked over to me for a treat. She remembered her old buddy's name and I was glad to see the remembrance was still there.

 

[Outpost JWB]

I want to share with you all a crazy story. I bought 2 CCL hens and 3 CCL roos (package deal included the roos.) last fall. I had placed one of the unrelated roos with 2 CCL hens and 2 BR hens. One night this spring DH's English setter broke into their coop & killed all of the hens

. She also badly injured the CCL roo whom has since recovered. I saved back all the eggs from the prior few days that had not yet been washed. I got an incubator & popped them in and hoped for the best.



Here is one of the baby CCLs. I think this is the only CCL pullet we have. Some of the BR/CCLs hatched. I'll get pics later. Thought you would enjoy our little miracle girl.

 

[sol2go]

I want to share with you all a crazy story. I bought 2 CCL hens and 3 CCL roos (package deal included the roos.) last fall. I had placed one of the unrelated roos with 2 CCL hens and 2 BR hens. One night this spring DH's English setter broke into their coop & killed all of the hens

. She also badly injured the CCL roo whom has since recovered. I saved back all the eggs from the prior few days that had not yet been washed. I got an incubator & popped them in and hoped for the best.



Here is one of the baby CCLs. I think this is the only CCL pullet we have. Some of the BR/CCLs hatched. I'll get pics later. Thought you would enjoy our little miracle girl.

That is a sad, and then happy story. Thanks for sharing her picture.

 

[chicken pickin]

I want to share with you all a crazy story. I bought 2 CCL hens and 3 CCL roos (package deal included the roos.) last fall. I had placed one of the unrelated roos with 2 CCL hens and 2 BR hens. One night this spring DH's English setter broke into their coop & killed all of the hens

. She also badly injured the CCL roo whom has since recovered. I saved back all the eggs from the prior few days that had not yet been washed. I got an incubator & popped them in and hoped for the best.



Here is one of the baby CCLs. I think this is the only CCL pullet we have. Some of the BR/CCLs hatched. I'll get pics later. Thought you would enjoy our little miracle girl.

Sorry you lost some of your flock, but CONGRATS on the cute little pullet!

 

[ChicKat]

Three new chicks---and their biggest fan.