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Oldegarlicshnapp said:
Okay, I’m not going to marry off my chickens in a ceremony. It was an attempted joke to ask how to raise a well tempered rooster. Thanks for your time
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Good luck on finding a good rooster. I have been thru 4 and 3 were meaner then a junk yard dog, dangerous. No need for a rooster, sad to say unless you are hatching your eggs. I now am roosterless and the coop is much calmer.
 
Judy Todd said:
May I suggest you get a good book on raising chickens. You can probably find one at your library. All the notes on chickens being a flock are right on. Your girl needs some gal friends not a rooster.
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Yes, many people have said that. I have two female chicks so don’t worry about it. I was just joking to find out how to get a well tempered rooster. I guess there isn’t a way, so that’s my bad
 
Oldegarlicshnapp said:
Yes, many people have said that. I have two female chicks so don’t worry about it. I was just joking to find out how to get a well tempered rooster. I guess there isn’t a way, so that’s my bad
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It's honestly luck of the draw. I don't keep I'll tempered males, and I don't treat them like babies, so they don't get too confident around me. That helps a bit, but some are just born nasty
 
Oldegarlicshnapp said:
I wonder why that is and how that would look like. I haven’t had any legitimate experience with roosters
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Just being overly friendly with them, cuddling with them, treating them like pets. When they get older, they don't fear you and see you as a rival. Roosters can be very dangerous, especially to small children. They can rake with their talons and slash with their spurs. Conventional wisdom is that you treat any cockerels as livestock and keep them at arm's length to avoid too much familiarity.
 
Aunt Angus said:
Just being overly friendly with them, cuddling with them, treating them like pets. When they get older, they don't fear you and see you as a rival. Roosters can be very dangerous, especially to small children. They can rake with their talons and slash with their spurs. Conventional wisdom is that you treat any cockerels as livestock and keep them at arm's length to avoid too much familiarity.
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How can you direct them to go back into their coop then?
I’m planning to get a male chick only to breed my hen and then give him away. Now I’m a little wary of how to hand raise him without that issue. I’ve see some women with pet cockerels that are docile. One has a hen and a cockerel as pets and they’re extremely tame. So I hadn’t thought of that as an issue.
 
Oldegarlicshnapp said:
How can you direct them to go back into their coop then?
I’m planning to get a male chick only to breed my hen and then give him away. Now I’m a little wary of how to hand raise him without that issue. I’ve see some women with pet cockerels that are docile. One has a hen and a cockerel as pets and they’re extremely tame. So I hadn’t thought of that as an issue.
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Mine just goes back on his own. There are great roosters out there, but they start off as chicks, of course, and become seriously hormonal cockerels. As previously stated, it's a crap shoot: some have great temperaments, some will become people aggressive. A oiding handling them early on seems to help, but there's no guarantee. Unless you need one for hatching chicks or predator protection, it's best for a flock of hens, imho.
 

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