Mean Mean Rooster, Help!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cassie]

If all else fails you can give him a nice warm bath with some garlic, onions, peppercorns and a bayleaf in a crockpot.

 

[shelleyd2008]

Or take a big cane rod to his backside, that seems to work with mine

 

[farmin'chick]

My solution was, keep switching out hens until you find some that tolerate or even LIKE him! Of course his other girls live in the banty house now where he can't find them...and 2 hens out of 4 for his breed are with him...You might try finding if there's a few hens that like him, and put them together in a smaller pen where he can't bother the other girls.

 

[SheeReno]

Follow the post about not lettong the roo mate in front of you. Dominate it. Make it eat last. This can be done without being a meanie yourslef.

 

[lauralou]

It sounds to me like he is having a burst of hormones, and trying to force himself on the pullets. It's really terrible to watch, I know, but it is normal. It also sounds like he is good with humans, so I wouldn't give up on him just yet.

If there is any way that you can pen him separately for a while, until the girls start laying, that's probably your best bet.

But, don't expect that things will just be clucky-happy when you let him back in with the ladies. Sometimes a rooster has to forcibly dominate the hens before they will accept him as their leader and squat for him.

That's what happened at my house with my rooster. There were some serious fights, and it was completely traumatic for me! But things did settle down, and the hens did accept him.

Bottom line, most young roos are a pain in the butt! Hopefully yours will grow out of that stage and make a wonderful flock protector and chick daddy for you.

Good luck with your wayward Romeo.

 

[joebryant]

Leave him alone; he's a rooster doing what a rooster is supposed to do. If anything, get another rooster because twenty-one hens are too many for one rooster if you want to be sure to have 100% fertilized eggs. Give him time; soon the hens will be fighting over him.

 

[Tonopah Pati]

You could put him in time out, in a pen by himself for a couple of weeks. also I found that if I caught him and carried him around, taking him out of the pen, hold him somewhat on his back as you carry him around. I had to do that to Mr. Peep as he was really getting mean and almost killed Willy. After his time out he settled down. Mr. Peep was also pulling the feathers out of the girls heads. When the girls let him mount them, he settled down 95% from how he was. He was close to the stew pot.

 

[FluffyColor]

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[miss_thenorth]

I would have to say that lauraloo's and joebryant's posts are bang on. give the awkward teenager a chance, and it should straighten itself out.

 

[mstricer]

eat him