Hi folks

[Mrs Tizzler]

Hello all,

Although I follow BYC on Facebook, I needed to google 'cockerel being bullied by hens' and it led me to some helpful advice on this forum! I'm very happy to be amongst my peers here.

I live in Plymouth, Devon, UK and have managed to get Mr Tizzler obsessed with chickens over the past year. We have 4 Marans girls in a back yard set up who get very spoiled (by him) to the point of being so feisty we took advice to add in a cockerel in the hope of calming them down......(titter titter).

Have owned Pekin bantams in the past and the longer I keep chooks, I realise the less I know!

 

[Wyandottes7]

Welcome to BYC!

We're glad to have you.

 

[TwoCrows]

Welcome to BYC!

So glad you could join our community! Yes, google has lead many of us here to BYC as well.

Enjoy all your poultry adventures and welcome to our flock!

 

[Kelsie2290]

Hello and Welcome To BYC!

 

[boskelli1571]

Hello & welcome! Glad to have you here -

 

[drumstick diva]

 

[gander007]

Are you sure Rooster being bullied by hens should read Rooster being hen pecked

So sorry I just had too

Mrs. Tizzler, you have a poultry weekend and enjoy your flock

 

[Mrs Tizzler]

Are you sure Rooster being bullied by hens should read Rooster being hen pecked

So sorry I just had too

Mrs. Tizzler, you have a poultry weekend and enjoy your flock

Thanks for the welcome all! If you want to know anything about hen pecking, best ask Mr Tizzler

 

[gander007]

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Naaa I am sure we would have to many things to agree about as I was married before and I have seen them conversations go on and on but thanks anyway Mrs. Tizzler

 

[user213590]

I do have some experience with this subject.

My son had a rooster, Jack Daniel's and chickens. The rooster died trying to defend his ladies fair. We kept back eggs to hatch to see if we could get a rooster. We did and named him Jack Jr. As he was growing up the older hens must have realized he was a cockeril because they went from being ok with having him and his sisters around to hen pecking him, that is where the term comes from.

I also wanted him to be a sweeter rooster than his daddy which I thought his bad behavior was from him not getting enough loving when he was little and those girls getting more than their share.

Well, neighbors laughed at my sweet little roo and said I did too good of a job in getting him sweeter than his daddy. Jack Jr would fall asleep in my arms sitting and talking to neighbors.

The original Jack would chase me across the yard and attack the back of my legs as I ran from him. Well I kept my Jack jr's cage in with the old gals and the new gals and they would circle his cage like shark. I tried letting him out and they would take off chasing him.

One day when he realized he was twice their size he stopped running and turned around and went after them! Shockingly they ran from him and have ever since. He captures some and here and some there. Now adays he keeps them all in line and they walk a thin line. The day will come that us if they so not kill him that he will get older and stop running from them.