getting a good cockrel

[missychicky]

ok so I am looking for a breed of chicken that is very freindly. I want to get a cockrell for my girls but I hear that all roos turn bad at a certain age. Is there any way to prevent this? what breed would be the best?

 

[rhoda_bruce]

Define 'bad'.....All I care about it fertilizing my eggs and whatever protection they can offer my girls. As to how they will get along with my 3 year old daughter.....we will never know because, yes they will jump her and I will want chicken soup, so I just don't allow her in the coop, unless I have her hand in mine and the roosters are all in my sight. Now if they should start acting threatning toward me, I would push them away so they know I'm the 'man' or rooster in this case. But the day that I can't go in my coop without having a fight, is the day I need to send my boys to freezer camp and incubate for another rooster to replace his mean dad. I feel I need a rooster, because I'm into chickens for more than eggs. I incubate to sell chicks and for a few fryers to put in the freezer. I am currently doing both now. I have heard that RIRs are aggressive. I suppose a lot of people would find them such. I don't seem to have a problem. I would feel a leghorn is more aggressive than a RIR. There are a lot of breeds that are calmer, but they might not service as many hens. Mine seems to go to work about every 5 to 15 minutes. Now there is another problem that I have encountered long ago and I only know one solution and that is the soup pot. Sometimes for no reason I can see, a rooster plucks nearly ever feather off a hens head, leaving her with a very battered, bloody head and he continues this until she is dead. I, of course, couldn't keep a rooster like that, unless he was super valueable and I could supervise his work and pen him up when he isn't needed. But that has never been the case. I'm not into raising highly valueable chickens, so I always just 'tended' to roosters like that, which fortunately didn't happen often.
For what purpose do you feel you could use a rooster?