Sorry to hear that about your Rooster, IMO an over aggressive Rooster is only worth having around if he is busy fighting off four legged predator to keep his girls safe, while not trying to bite the hand that feeds him.Well, I thought I was making progress with my rooster. I take in the treats, he pecks my feet. The last two days, he hasn't.
Until yesterday. The treat was a heel of bread, which they get about once every two weeks. It's the only treat some of them will get on my lap for. When I sit in the coop doorway, one of the girls will get beside me and let me pet her.
Yesterday, the rooster wasn't having any of that. He was on the ramp to the pop door (I often give him the treats so that he can pass it on to one of the ladies), and he came in and pecked me hard on the arm.
It didn't hurt, as I had on a coat, but I dropped the rest of the heel and lost my persuasive treat.
I guess he saw my stroking his main girl as mating (?) and wasn't having any of that.
If I get a oops cockerel in with pullet chicks I'm getting in June, roo-roo may have to go away. I'll keep working with him...
Chewy is a barn yard mix, his mother was a Brahma and the Roo was a RR so he is not purebred Brahma for which the Roosters are to be more docile from what I have read.
That is so awesome Congrats, any pics?
I am stretched a little thin for time right now but hope to give the Hatch-A-Long thing a try also. I really like the idea of being able to grow our own flock one day by using our own healthy poultry to do it. That's the only reason I still have this guy. His cockerel chickmates were fine until hormones hit. Then they turned into unholy terrors to me and the pullets.
Hello, How is everyone and their flock doing this fine day?
Everything and one is doing fine around our place in between rain showers still. LOL At least now the weather is getting warmer and things are starting to turn green, even the bare ground that the ducks and chickens turned into a muddy mess last fall.
All The girls are doing wonderful in the egg laying department, haven't had anymore hiccups in awhile, so that is a good thing knock on wood! LOL
Little Scoot Scoot is five weeks old and he really loves to get out and run around the yard. Too funny to watch the way he bounces around like he has little springs on the bottom of his hoofs.
Chewy our young Cockerel is starting to be more active with his four girls so I will start checking to see if any of the eggs are fertile or not? I am curious to hatch a few of the Isa Brown eggs to see what the chicks would turn out like. I am still unable to find that answer here on BYC, unless I am not looking in the right place?
I did find two dozen barn yard mixed eggs for my older gentleman friend so he can put them in his older model incubator to show his grandchildren how that whole fun process works.
I think I have made my decision on the incubator that I will buy after many hours of looking at so many of them and reading reviews. I am going to purchase the Nurture Right 360, a little bigger then I wanted but I guess that wont be a deal breaker because of all the great reviews that machine has received.
I am sure it will be a little while yet before I have the extra time to start hatching any eggs for myself. Spring is here and I am up to my eyeballs in outdoor projects that have been put on hold because of all the extra rain these past few months.
Spring really gets the young guys going! One cockerel here is enough for 18 hens, every egg is fertile.
It is a pretty efficient use of space, considering it can house half the flock! Gotta have a plan for all those boys that hatch out.You learn as you go, but hatching is addicting and you need a bigger freezer.
That would be super Thank you.
I posted on the Forum looking and never received a reply back figuring no one has done it? 
4 sex linked Isa Brown hens and one cockerel Brahma mix with RR Roo I am guessing? I can post pics if that helps? LOL
