My 1st Chickeniversary! And a rooster question...

[Birdofire1]

Try painting Blue-kote on any bare flesh. That usually discourages further feather picking.

Here's a quick and short article I wrote for people dealing with their first cockerel. Your kids are big enough to read it and participate in his training. https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/i-think-i-have-a-cockerel-now-what-do-i-do.76274/

I thought roosters weren't trainable for the most part...?

 

[azygous]

I thought roosters weren't trainable for the most part...?

They are easier to train than dogs. Or toddlers.

 

[Shadrach]

They are easier to train than dogs. Or toddlers.

Just browsing when I came accross this. It made me smile.
I won a fifty pound bet demonstrating this.

 

[Birdofire1]

Can't speak to that but I would still take my Border Collie every day of the week and twice on Sundays over the aggravating little shit in my coop who WAS fine and now isn't and I have no idea why.

 

[azygous]

Can't speak to that but I would still take my Border Collie every day of the week and twice on Sundays over the aggravating little shit in my coop who WAS fine and now isn't and I have no idea why.

Usually when a cockerel is coming into his hormones around six months old, and if it also happens to be spring, this combination can cause a personality change so drastic most people wonder who sneaked in during the night and replaced their sweet cuddly affectionate boy with a snarling beast that chases little kids and bites the wife and faces off with the mail carrier.

Yes, he can be trained to be a gentleman. It requires a little effort is all.

 

[Birdofire1]

Usually when a cockerel is coming into his hormones around six months old, and if it also happens to be spring, this combination can cause a personality change so drastic most people wonder who sneaked in during the night and replaced their sweet cuddly affectionate boy with a snarling beast that chases little kids and bites the wife and faces off with the mail carrier.

Yes, he can be trained to be a gentleman. It requires a little effort is all.

Thank you for the advice and the article. He was a late bloomer but is still under a year but yes, I am wondering who switched him out! I will give that a shot. I feel like I have a small window to work with since he seems a little uncertain but if I can't nip this in the bud he's gonna end up culled. Which means no rooster at all.