Daughter flogged......ROOSTER DEAD !!!!!!!!

[RHRanch]

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I agree - maybe certain hatcheries are keeping agressive roos as breeding stock?

 

[rhs7111]

I think those who have both aggressive roosters and small children should keep their roosters penned. To me, it's common sense.

 

[pjknust]

mostly when growing up we had usually only one male bird at a time, and I think thats why they may be worse. Years ago we had lots of hens and only one rooster, he was MEAN, when we got more roosters, he got the short end of the stick and finally died , but the others were not mean. If you have more than one, they tend to fight each other. Only one thinks he is boss of everybody, even the humans.
just my 2 cents

pam in TX

 

[centrarchid]

Hatcheries may be only part of problem. Hyper-aggressiveness may be selected for in large multiple-rooster breeding flocks used by commerical hatcheries. I also get feeling many parties having issues with roosters expect to have issues with roosters.

 

[centrarchid]

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[GhostRider65]

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Well I have 5 BO and 4 are roo's out of them 4 only 1 is mildly sweet, and my hens is a great little girl, lowest on the pecking order and very frieldly, but 3 of these roos are mean to everyone, they peck my toes and try to bite me, but so far they are mostly mean to the other chickens they are only 18 weeks almost 19, so will see they will be stock or soup pretty soon I'm a thinkin.

 

[RHRanch]

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Perhaps - its like how horses know which people they can bully....

 

[Blue]

I think the hatcheries probably are a contributing factor. None of the roosters that broody hens have hatched from our own flock have ever been mean to humans. Ones that have been hatched from other people's flocks that were given to us also haven't been mean. The only remotely mean roosters that I've had have all been ones that I bought, so I do suspect that the hatcheries do not cull for temperament as well as many small-time breeders do. It does seem like many of the complaints about mean roosters are coming from people who bought hatchery birds, so I believe it's entirely possible that hatchery roosters are just more prone to have aggressive tendencies. This doesn't mean that all hatchery roosters will be mean, but it does mean that the chance of ending up with an aggressive rooster may be higher if the birds came from a hatchery. On the other hand, if you breed the hatchery chickens and cull for aggression, you can work the aggressive tendencies out of your flock over time.

 

[speckledhen]

On the other hand, if you breed the hatchery chickens and cull for aggression, you can work the aggressive tendencies out of your flock over time.

Agreed! What I hate to see is someone who complains that their rooster is a mean son of a gun, then they proceed to hatch out sons from him when they should be culling the mean boy and trying for a rooster from less aggressive stock.

This morning while riding her bicycle, my daughter was attacked.

My first thought about this thread was that the rooster was attacking the bicycle rather than the child. You saw your daughter on her bike, but he may have only seen the whirling tires.​

 

[SunnyDawn]

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Ditto!