It can go either way. I have a beautiful boy I call Prince. He’s white with very faint purple gray manchurian snowie markings, and he has beautiful blue eyes. He’s about 12-14 weeks old now and every hen I put in with him, he would grab them by the neck feathers and viciously pull them until they submitted. He matured early was crowing at 3 weeks and feverishly humping any bird in his path at 4 weeks. Most males will jump on and take a ride without much care about the hens feelings or behavior, so if she isn’t into it he rodeo rides for 3 seconds and goes about the rest of his day. It seemed like Prince couldn’t handle the hen saying no, and would only get on if she submitted and leaned down and stayed still. He bloodied and balded, ( not scalped just pulled out feathers, some peck marks in the naked areas but not too bad) a couple young hens in the grow out, so I brought him inside, and I put him with a few big, older hens who Ive had good results with breaking in new boys. All was fine for several days, they lost some head feathers but no injuries or blood. I added 2 young hens his age, and he seemed happy, one bird was favorite, but with 5 ladies he didn’t seem to be ripping out feathers all was well.
A couple weeks went by, everything was fine, I was going to move him and his ladies back outside once I sold a few birds to give him a private pen because he will try to kill any male near his ladies. I was so hopeful because he was going to be a foundation bird for a project I’m working on. One morning my husband wakes me up early. He tells me that he thinks the white male attacked 2 of the others, one is my favorite who we call big Bertha because she’s huge. The male looks unharmed but is pink all over and red up front from the blood. He said it was so bad he was gonna cull them so they wouldn’t suffer, but he didn’t want to cull Bertha without me knowing. I ran to see, and they were both fluffed up, shivering, and totally scalped.
Luckily he waited for me because a scalping in a bird looks way worse than it is. I took him out and tossed him in male jail, kind of secretly hoping hed get his butt kicked. I tended the girls, cleaned them up and they’re fine, it’s been like 2 weeks. They live with the snow angels for now while they regrow some feathers, but the skin healed fine.
So Prince has been the uncontested king of male jail for 2 weeks now, and no one tries to fight anyone else at all. Did I mention he’s the smallest one? However I’m not sure I can ever put him with hens. I don’t want to perpetuate bad qualities in my birds. I guess time will tell, as they get older sometimes they chill out.
