Ella2025's Experiment Broody Hen Hatch-A-Long

[ella2025]

I literally just woke up randomly at 4:30 am and I can hear the roosters crowing. I can hear a very low pitched quiet cockadoodledoo! Saffron is the only maturing Cockerel at crowing age. He is exactly 16 weeks and 1 day old. Here's the most recent picture I have of him and Pepper, he's a fine gentleman already!

His dad has (very surprisingly) never shown any aggression toward him, even when he tried to mate with his hens and was getting into fights in the flock. He (dad) has always had a 0 tolerance policy for other roosters, lol. Now that he crows, I fear that they might start fighting and there's no way Saffron would win sadly, so there will have to be some sort of separation between the 2. Once it gets light out I'll go observe them a bit.

 

[ella2025]

Am I the only one who gets super pumped when my cockerels start crowing? I do this knowing they'll haunt me at 4 am for the rest of their lives...

 

[GreenJay]

I literally just woke up randomly at 4:30 am and I can hear the roosters crowing. I can hear a very low pitched quiet cockadoodledoo! Saffron is the only maturing Cockerel at crowing age. He is exactly 16 weeks and 1 day old. Here's the most recent picture I have of him and Pepper, he's a fine gentleman already!
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His dad has (very surprisingly) never shown any aggression toward him, even when he tried to mate with his hens and was getting into fights in the flock. He (dad) has always had a 0 tolerance policy for other roosters, lol. Now that he crows, I fear that they might start fighting and there's no way Saffron would win sadly, so there will have to be some sort of separation between the 2. Once it gets light out I'll go observe them a bit.

He's grown up into a very handsome little man!