Hello! and welcome to the OEGB thread.

[HetaChick]

Now thats funny, sounds like you got a permanent buddy and a little over protective, lol

xD I hope so. If it's a roo, it's going to need some human socializing though. It can fly/crawl all the way up to my shoulder while i'm standing too, and its tiny. I was so amazed. I think it's a the little animal thing, they they think they're huge and can do anything. This bird has a lot of character. I think I'm liking these game birds, they're real feisty.

 

[rittert3]

From my experience (and others I've read/seen/heard about) socializing roos from that young makes them human aggressive. They need to have a healthy fear of people other wise they will attack when they start wanting to breed, hens/pullets on the other hand, if you handle them as much as possible from day one they won't want to leave your side.

 

[HetaChick]

From my experience (and others I've read/seen/heard about) socializing roos from that young makes them human aggressive. They need to have a healthy fear of people other wise they will attack when they start wanting to breed, hens/pullets on the other hand, if you handle them as much as possible from day one they won't want to leave your side.

Hmm… well I hope whichever gender this bird is it remains friendly with me after bird puberty. I've seen some darling pet roosters out there, including a Japanese who was the tamest bird I've ever seen and loved attention.

My birds are pets so them being friendly towards me is important. I did adopt ( a long time ago) an aggressive BR roo who made minced meat of my friends mom's leg. After I pinned him and scared him he never attacked again. And was a better rooster.


I also think aggression has a lot to do with genetics as well, watched an interesting special once on foxes that dealt with aggression and domestic behavior. I would suppose it's similar with other species…. ahh… i hope this works out in my favor.

It seems hit or miss with the roo's. Some are lovers others are real demons.

 

[rittert3]

If he dosn't have hens he will more then likely veiw you as his hen and every one else as potential compitition, some times a kick across the yard (or getting pinned) will stop it other times it makes it worse, just be carefull, sounds like you have a great little freind there.

 

[HetaChick]

Thanks… and yeah. ^^

Then again it may just be a dominant female. Seeing how it really doesn't like the other birds I'm thinking It will be a single bird unless it decides biting their eyes and fighting them is old news. It just wants to sleep in my hand and roost on my shoulder without them in its business I guess.

 

[FarmGirl01]

I would say that the chick in the pic is female. Very dark eye stripe. If its a cross, who knows?

 

[HetaChick]

I would say that the chick in the pic is female. Very dark eye stripe. If its a cross, who knows?

Yes, that's what I was going by. It's father is a pea comb type chicken, my friend's roos were shamo so as weird as that is, that's the likely cross. But I've noticed most wild colored chicks (when I did some research) are hens with dark and roos with lighter colors.

 

[Cjarvis]

I know this belongs to another section but since this is a breed specific page thread I have to ask.

Is the sexing of OEGB Wild type colored chicks (chipmunks) accurate? Like i heard/read you can sex them based on this in certain breeds. I have an OEGB cross but over all it looks VERY OEGB minus the wrong comb type (hen was an OEGB, hatched out of a white OEGB egg too roo must have been something w/ pea comb )

But I wanted to know if what I read about the pullets being the darker ones with the full lines thru their eyes and the males lighter with partial/faded line?




A few days ago. Now it has tail feathers that are black and long wing feathers. Shoulder feathers are starting down its back. AGAIN I'm sorry to post this here but I figured owners of this breed would be able to tell me more.

My chick is very protective of me and attacks my hen and her chicks and the bird itself is really small (half the other chicks if not less) but is fearless.

if not crossed with anything the Duckwing varieties are fairly simple, chicks with an eye stripe are female, without are male. However if it is a cross breed of something that may not work well for you.
Wish you the best.

 

[Cjarvis]

Hmm… well I hope whichever gender this bird is it remains friendly with me after bird puberty. I've seen some darling pet roosters out there, including a Japanese who was the tamest bird I've ever seen and loved attention.

My birds are pets so them being friendly towards me is important. I did adopt ( a long time ago) an aggressive BR roo who made minced meat of my friends mom's leg. After I pinned him and scared him he never attacked again. And was a better rooster.


I also think aggression has a lot to do with genetics as well, watched an interesting special once on foxes that dealt with aggression and domestic behavior. I would suppose it's similar with other species…. ahh… i hope this works out in my favor.

It seems hit or miss with the roo's. Some are lovers others are real demons.

We make a point to somewhat socialize all of our birds as they come up, in general I have no issues with aggressive males unless they are in a pen with females.
an outright human aggressive bird are uncoomon although they do exist and really are not usefull in breeding programs as they will pass that trait.

 

[HetaChick]

Thanks everyone! The information is really helpful.
If I had my camera I'd post a new picture of how it looks now, it's already starting to feather out nicely and it's hatch date was Jan 5th (in the early early hours).

Such a little bird! It's hatch-mates weren't OEGB (I only got one egg of an oegb from my friend) they were shamo/something else crosses and jeez they're huge in comparison. This little one is quite fearless though, those little shamo chicks are actually scared of her… that's a bantam for you. Their personalities are bigger than they are.