If you're going to keep your little roo, you might want to read up on rooster training. Along around six or seven months, a young cockerel gets a flood of hormones, and it may make him overly protective and combative. He may come to think of all the hens as his, and will challenge you if you touch them or try to gather their eggs.
I have an eight-week old chick that shows every indication of being a roo by his rambunctious behavior. He hates to be held, but I'm doing it anyway to get him used to accepting my dominance over him. The trick to this training is not to let him go until he settles down and is perfectly quiet and still. That shows he's accepting it.
Many folks wait to do this training after a cockerel shows his aggressiveness. They pin him to the ground and tuck him under their arm and carry him around. I'm getting a head start on this, just in case.
His daddy is a strapping 12 pound Brahma, and he's as docile as a puppy. It took a year of training to get him tamed, so that's why I'm getting this young one started early.
I have an eight-week old chick that shows every indication of being a roo by his rambunctious behavior. He hates to be held, but I'm doing it anyway to get him used to accepting my dominance over him. The trick to this training is not to let him go until he settles down and is perfectly quiet and still. That shows he's accepting it.
Many folks wait to do this training after a cockerel shows his aggressiveness. They pin him to the ground and tuck him under their arm and carry him around. I'm getting a head start on this, just in case.
His daddy is a strapping 12 pound Brahma, and he's as docile as a puppy. It took a year of training to get him tamed, so that's why I'm getting this young one started early.
