I need rooster 101

[Renee97038]

I kept 2 brothers and all was well, free ranging with 12 hens, then one day at age 8 months old they decided to fight to their death. Bloody combs, faces torn up and they just wouldn't quit. I rehomed the aggressor and immediately I had "calm" around the flock. Hens were no longer hiding in the Coop,coming out to free range again and this rooster I kept is so gentle on the hens. I rarely see him breed a hen. But, have 100% fertility on my eggs right now. He is 1 year old now and never has shown a bit of aggression to me or the hens.

 

[tyster19]

IDK what to tell you because i don't have a rooster but i think you should go with the nicer one

 

[starrmar006]

When I got my rooster he wasn't excepted by the hens for the first 2 or 3 months. Then when he was excepted by the hens, we got another rooster out of the 10% chance of chicks. A few months later we had to get rid of the new rooster that we got for the 10% chance, because her was mating way too much on only one hen. When the spring came by he got supper aggressive toward his hens. So now we have to through food in the opposite corner of his outdoor pen so he wouldn't attack us. And to this day he is the most aggressive in the spring time. I don't know about what it will be like with 2!

 

[firestomp]

My black australorp was mean as he-- from the time he hit sexual maturity. Mating is mating, what we see as rough is a part of nature to them. As for being mean to anything else that moves, he aint worth the scars, infections, constantly looking over your shoulder and so on. I put up with this from Big Jake for 2 years. All the above I dealt with as well as a several hundred dollar dr. bill and horse pills 4 times day for 10 days. I de-spurred him, helped the feathers on the hens but still hurt like he-- when he flogged me. I always had a forked stick with me, if I seen him coming and looked at him he would stop. take a step to the right to look at me with one eye. This went on every day as I also raise meat rabbits and quail.I even had a jail set up for him and he spent a great deal of time in it, as I would snatch him up and put him in lock up after an attack on me. He even put himself in there at night when I let him out to be with the girls every other day. One day was to much, and was the last time. I put im down on the spot. No more looking over my shoulder. No more putting him up to work in the yard. He will be replaced with another from fertile eggs from my neighbor, a hen that went broody 2 days after his departure, 7 of the 9 chicks made it. Folks, a mean rooster won't change, and they can hurt a child very bad, as they are easily capable of jumping high enough to flog a child's eye out. I am 6 feet tall and he has hit me in the lower back. he has punctured several gallon milk jugs, so human flesh is nothing to them.

 

[FluffyButt789]

My black australorp was mean as he-- from the time he hit sexual maturity. Mating is mating, what we see as rough is a part of nature to them. As for being mean to anything else that moves, he aint worth the scars, infections, constantly looking over your shoulder and so on. I put up with this from Big Jake for 2 years. All the above I dealt with as well as a several hundred dollar dr. bill and horse pills 4 times day for 10 days. I de-spurred him, helped the feathers on the hens but still hurt like he-- when he flogged me. I always had a forked stick with me, if I seen him coming and looked at him he would stop. take a step to the right to look at me with one eye. This went on every day as I also raise meat rabbits and quail.I even had a jail set up for him and he spent a great deal of time in it, as I would snatch him up and put him in lock up after an attack on me. He even put himself in there at night when I let him out to be with the girls every other day. One day was to much, and was the last time. I put im down on the spot. No more looking over my shoulder. No more putting him up to work in the yard. He will be replaced with another from fertile eggs from my neighbor, a hen that went broody 2 days after his departure, 7 of the 9 chicks made it. Folks, a mean rooster won't change, and they can hurt a child very bad, as they are easily capable of jumping high enough to flog a child's eye out. I am 6 feet tall and he has hit me in the lower back. he has punctured several gallon milk jugs, so human flesh is nothing to them.

What firestomp said is about the same experience I had. We had a mean rooster for a year. Always had to look over my shoulder, carry a broom or rake or stick when I was outside. I have two little kids. He attacked them and that was it - to the freezer camp he went. The rooster had a favorite hen and put a really bad gash in her leg I was worried I was going to lose her but thankfully she healed and all the hens are much happier now. We had more chicks before we got rid of the rooster and 3 of them are roos... and they are already acting like a-holes so they probably won't be around much longer. I've never had a nice rooster and I'm hoping someday we'll get lucky. What another poster said - too many nice roosters out there to give the mean ones a chance - is very true. Get rid of your mean rooster is my suggestion.

 

[firestomp]

What firestomp said is about the same experience I had. We had a mean rooster for a year. Always had to look over my shoulder, carry a broom or rake or stick when I was outside. I have two little kids. He attacked them and that was it - to the freezer camp he went. The rooster had a favorite hen and put a really bad gash in her leg I was worried I was going to lose her but thankfully she healed and all the hens are much happier now. We had more chicks before we got rid of the rooster and 3 of them are roos... and they are already acting like a-holes so they probably won't be around much longer. I've never had a nice rooster and I'm hoping someday we'll get lucky. What another poster said - too many nice roosters out there to give the mean ones a chance - is very true. Get rid of your mean rooster is my suggestion.

one of Big Jakes sons is as nice as can be, a coworker wanted him. The only thing Jake was afraid of was the net and the broom, and the 4 Khaki drakes. That's another story in itself.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

When I got my rooster he wasn't excepted by the hens for the first 2 or 3 months. Then when he was excepted by the hens, we got another rooster out of the 10% chance of chicks. A few months later we had to get rid of the new rooster that we got for the 10% chance, because her was mating way too much on only one hen. When the spring came by he got supper aggressive toward his hens. So now we have to through food in the opposite corner of his outdoor pen so he wouldn't attack us. And to this day he is the most aggressive in the spring time. I don't know about what it will be like with 2!

Hens, begin laying in the Spring so it is natural for roosters to breed with his hens more at this time of year as well as for the male birds to act more aggressive toward other roosters.

 

[starrmar006]

When I got my rooster he wasn't excepted by the hens for the first 2 or 3 months. Then when he was excepted by the hens, we got another rooster out of the 10% chance of chicks. A few months later we had to get rid of the new rooster that we got for the 10% chance, because her was mating way too much on only one hen. When the spring came by he got supper aggressive toward his hens. So now we have to through food in the opposite corner of his outdoor pen so he wouldn't attack us. And to this day he is the most aggressive in the spring time. I don't know about what it will be like with 2!

My rooster is a Black Copper Merian

 

[HenOnAJuneBug]

It just looks like that to me when the hen is screeching and running instead of squatting. She said no and no means no right?

Honestly, I wish my roos saw it that way.

 

[firestomp]

Honestly, I wish my roos saw it that way.

You need to remember this is the animal world, not our human world here. Their world and way of life is harsh, always has been and will be when we are gone. It is just what it is. We see it as forced, mean, bullying, whatever, because we are soft hearted. But that is our view of it all. It is nothing more than a natural way of life and their survival to them. Many species have sex as a social thing, making stronger bonds, and even for the heck of it. If animals said NO, there wouldn't be any, or very few, thanks to us humans. Loss of habitat, poaching, cars, you name it, and it all falls back on us.