My Frizz is a butt

[txchickie]

He was my surprise treasure from TSC. Now that he's a "man", he is such a butthead to the my other birds!!!!! He's been at my mom's house living in her backyard in chicken rehab for about 2 months, but his constant crowing got him evicted and now he's back home.

I am wanting to save him for my 4 polish girls (how cool would a frizzled polish be? haha

I must have me some!) but they are a few weeks off of needing his services yet, as they are only about 21 weeks and not laying yet.

I try to let him out to free range with the others, but he is a bully (my OEGB roo whipped him twice and Frizz still tries to be a jerk to him

). So he stays in his pen by himself all day and tries to fight anything that walks by. Poor dude doesn't have a good life

I know he's frustrated, but GAAH!

 

[Brindlebtch]

It's tough being a butt.

Do you have any hens you sould put in with him that he won't be rude to so he can have company? If not, it is solitary buttdom for him!

 

[fordmommy]

Sounds to me like you only like him for his breed. Maybe you should get rid of "him" and get a different frizzle cockeral, someone who's well mannered. You may like him enough to sell him on craigslist or some other website, to a home where there are more frizzles that he can harass. Or maybe you just want to give him away for free.


Maybe he's jealous of the afro hair-do. Maybe he needs a little wig.

 

[Lucky Ducky]

My son has a black frizzle roo and hen. They had been penned together but then she decided to go broody. Because of the genetics thing we couldn't let her hatch out her own eggs but gave some of our other hens. She was penned up separately. He was now alone. Because he was all alone we felt sorry for him and let him free range by hisself. The others were penned to keep the from eating the apricots at this time. He got mean. I played rooster football a couple of times and played at being a monster chasing him. My son loooves this rooster but doesn't hold him or anything, so I had to try and fix him. He would try and fight through the fence with the other chickens. I decide to build him his own house and large pen. When it was done, I move him in alond with 3 hens. After 2 days ALL of his bad behavior stopped!!! I was amazed. It turns out that his only problem was hormonal frustration because he did not have any girls at all. Your roo may need a few girls to settle him down. Fighting with your other roo is normal. He's trying to be the alpha roo. I would try giving him his own space with his own girls and see if that helps. Cochins are one of the most laid back breeds.


ETA: Even though your polish girls are not laying, they can still be put in with a roo. All of my roos and hens grew up together. They were not separated until the girls layed.

 

[txchickie]

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This is what I was wondering for my polish girls, if it would do any harm with the 4 of them and Frizz together if they weren't to the laying stage yet. I guess my other roo mates with them and they've survived just fine. I've had it in my head that I'd put them together only for baby-making

duh!

All of the rest of my chickens grew up together, I just don't want him crossing with my other hens...I don't need frizzled OEGB's, kwim?

And in a way, it's just the "Frizz" part that I like about him, and the fact that he's a super small banty. If he was a regular old red cochin rooster he'd be gone by now. But I did raise the little booger and I think he's way cool looking

He's gentle with me and allows me to pick him up and he'll sit on my lap...he may be getting some polish girls today, I'd need to clip their wings so they can't fly out of his pen.

Sigh---the things I do for my little frizzy turd!