Is my FBCM going to be a jerk?

[Shellebelle920]

This is my first go around with chickens (but I now have 23 chicks in 3 brooders in my family room and 40 more eggs in incubators in my dining room. Lol) Anyway, I have an almost 4 week old Black Copper Maran chick who I am suspicious to be a cockerel. I This bird! It is the only one that comes to me and lets me hold it. So my question is, do you think boy or girl, and if it is a boy, is he going to turn into a jerk. I know PeeWee is still a bit too young to sex, but I think the guess is always fun. Also, is there hope that he won’t turn into a psychotic rooster eventually? Do boy chicks maintain that personality or do they take a 180 when they go through their teenage years?

 

[Spartan22]

A roo, but hard to tell what his personality will be until later, sometimes take a year or so.

 

[SueT]

Here's a recent thread full of helpful how-to advice on raising a good rooster:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/how-to-raise-a-good-rooster.1302317/#post-21215064

 

[Shellebelle920]

Here's a recent thread full of helpful how-to advice on raising a good rooster:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/how-to-raise-a-good-rooster.1302317/#post-21215064

Great thread! Thanks!

 

[Shellebelle920]

Great thread! Thanks!

And it seems like I’m doing everything wrong with him after reading the first few posts.

 

[Chooks man]

he is a cockerel .he ll maintain his good nature toward you when he is older as long as you don t change your nature toward him .

chooks man

 

[Celticdragonfly]

FBCM?

 

[Aunt Angus]

FBCM = french black copper maran, I believe.

 

[Celticdragonfly]

FBCM = french black copper maran, I believe.

Thanks much. That, and OEGB I see a lot, still baffles me.

 

[Aunt Angus]

No prob! BTW - Old English game bantam

Someone wrote an article listing all of the acronyms, but I'll be darned if I can find it now.