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Are your leghorns flighty? I know dragonlady's Buff Orpingtons are great for children,
She even has a great pic of one of the kids sitting on a bench holding a lovely Buff Orpington.
Plus her birds are both heritage and very well bred to the Standard.
Best,
Karen
I have a Australorp rooster that I love, he's not aggressive, doesn't over mate but when he dose mate since he's huge/heavy weight he's cutting off girls back feathers with his feet and he's not making the girls bald backs but cutting the feathers in half he keeps putting his feet on there back and not there wings when mating, FFS.. It's like he's giving the girls a haircut on there backs. Any help? Or get a new rooster? He's makes a good breeding cock but can't show half the girls since he gave them a haircut on there back with his T-Rex legs.
Meanest chicken on the planet (people-wise) was and is a Leghorn. No changing that fact. It hasn't been bred out of them in the last 200 years. I doubt if you are going to be able to do it either. That is not to say that they are all manfighters; instead, I'm just saying it's a breed characteristic that is going to come up time and time again. Why? because Leghorns are nothing more or less than Games that went cold/dunghills years ago and then were selected along the lines of egg production. With Games, manfighters are culled. This has not taken place in Leghorn selection.
It's known by some of the folks on this thread that I tolerate hateful cocks in my production line, especially if they are out of a particular strain. I make this choice and have no fear of any chicken.I believe you. This rooster and his attitude are the very reason I'm raising a flock of chickens in the first place. My husband and daughter got it in their heads that they were going to raise chickens for eggs and meat. Thick as thieves, those two - and always into something. I had no interest. Leave me alone to play in my garden. Long story short...the LH grew up and it got so bad they would throw the feed over the gate to the chickens because he wouldn't let the in the run. They gave up and somehow, in their strange logic the chickens became my responsibility because, technically they were close enough to be part of my garden -and off they went to the next adventure. The chickens all free range now and this mean LH and I have no choice but to occupy the same space. He patrols the yard almost like a dog. A doberman, maybe. He doesn't try to flog me, but I am careful around him. He won't take a treat when I have gloves on so I take them off. He doesn't like it if I use the big silver bucket. I have a white bucket now. I can work in my garden and he will keep his eye on me but will also run over with the hens if I turn over a big rock. I have three roosters. He is definately the alpha, but no one has fought yet.
Okay. I've hijacked this enough.
It's known by some of the folks on this thread that I tolerate hateful cocks in my production line, especially if they are out of a particular strain. I make this choice and have no fear of any chicken.
I'm baffled that you would tolerate such an untenable situation, especially with any number of potentially lethal gardening tools at your disposal. Use one of them.