How many of you can do this with your silkie rooster?

[Jacob42]

We named him Puppy originally but that was before we knew he liked to be held like a little baby. He will actually sit like this for a long time. Isnt he cute?

 

[MotherMal13]

Aww. I have a RIR hen that does that.

 

[sunket77]

how old is he? I have a cochin roo that would fall asleep in my lap on his back and still will.... but lately he turned mean and started attacking people, even myself. I was told that since we held him so much that roosters will turn mean once they become a year old so they will challenge you for head rooster position since they see you as an equal. And sure enough he did.... I hope yours stays sweet!

 

[Ms.FuzzyButts]

Jumps up and waves hand wildly... Me, me, ME!!! I have a black Silkie roo that will dance circles around you until you pick him up.. I named him Lovin.. I can hold him however I want, and for as long as I want. Well, anybody can. He isn't picky!!

 

[pulletkeeper]

My hens don't like to be around people (there were raised by someone else for the last year and acquired by me just recently). Out of my 13 teens I only have one that is even remotely interested in me. It is a barred rock that I have named Georgia (after Curious George) because this thing charges me and then follows me around and jumps on or in anything I put down or touch.

It sometimes reminds me of one of those B horror films where the chicken farmer gets eaten by her own chickens

 

[baltimoreharps]

Sorry, NO, I don't have one that cute.
My Robbie looks the same but is a jerk and will not be held, cuddled or tamed. He's gone tomorrow as he's picked on the tiny silkie roo to the point of dragging her all over the 10X 10 pen they share over and over again to the point he was hurting her. I separated them out then with the silkie hen going to the brooder where she was recovering from either wry neck or neuro damage for 3 weeks.
I put her back in the pen with a chicken wire fence to keep the silkie hen and roo separated, and he went for her through the fence.

He got worse as the silkie hen got better, his attitude right now is BAD. He is the one in the brooder now and still wing drops me or anyone who comes out on the porch where the brooder is. I don't know what to do with him other than take him to market tomorrow and try to give him or sell him because he isn't learning anything. I've done everything I've read here and so have the kids, he is just not listening.
I'm not so good on silkie roos right now, but that is one cute pic.

 

[darkstarr nite]

awe ..... how cute ... I want one...

 

[Jacob42]

He will be 1 year old soon. We had a polish roo with him and the polish let him care for the silkies while the polish would care for all the rest of our hens, but our polish got mean and had to go to a new home. We got a Barred Rock roo and he is huge compared to the rest of our chickens but he took over all hens and now the silike roo gets noone. I am wondering if this is why he is starting to jump at people. He will not go after me but if I set him down facing me sometimes he will try to bite the vein on my hand. Then I pick him up and tell him "NO" and he walks backwards away from me.

I have never heard this about roos being held too much, anyone else hear of that? If there is truth to that how do you keep from holding it too much before you know its a roo? I always thought it was in their personality and there wasnt much you could do about it.

 

[cluckcluck42]

I wish!! That is so flippin cute.