I clearly didn't include necessary details i apologize i wrote this on my way to a viewing, i only have one bantam chick, my mother ordered them and wouldn't change it despite my warnings. My d'uccle is the one bantam the rest are standards. Rooster himself is bigger then average he has some jersey giant in him and Brahma, his father was a brahma and his mother a mixed breed (mostly barred rock).
They lived outside for three days when they were almost four weeks but it's been raining every day here and dropping the temperature to sixty sometimes lower, then i was going to move them outside but they got coccidiosis and i wanted to finish the corid before i moved them back out. They are now out there full time, i think the girls remember them from before and i think i overreacted when rooster went after Deb. The chicks don't have a mom, they're alone.
he's acting pretty okay now, he's not staring at them or attacking them. I let them out under my supervision again and rooster didn't bother them, he came over and looked, then walked away but it might've just been because i was watching him like a hawk.
i genuinely think he just didn't know what they were, or I'm hoping anyway, he used to attack small birds in the yard so maybe he was confused? I don't know, I'm preparing an area to separate him into just in case, he's not the smartest boy he wasn't raised well and i spoiled him, he's always been like the dog I've never had he was here when my grandmother passed just staring up at me with his goofy face, he helped me deal with things so i don't think i would ever be able to give him away and i would NEVER be able to cull him.
He really always has been the perfect rooster, he was aggressive as a four month old but when i started holding him he changed, he doesn't aggressively mate with the girls he's constantly finding them food and making sure they're okay, once my Rosie inhaled some food, and was wheezing and gaping she sounded like she was going to die, and he wouldn't leave her for nothing he would bring her food and bugs and everything she could've wanted. He protects them from predators and sings the girls egg songs with them.
I'm gonna give him some time, he's leaving the chicks alone now. I do think i overreacted Debra is my little baby she's just the sweetest and Rooster is also my little boy so seeing him go after her just terrified me. i do think that if rooster wanted to hurt or kill Deb he would've done it she didn't see it coming at all.
she is the first white chick or chicken he's seen (besides his brother whom has been gone for a pretty long time).
I'm going to give him another chance, but as i said i am preparing a separate area for him if this becomes a habit i understand the big chickens are going to assert their dominance but this seemed very extreme.
I'm going to give the chicks a week or so in the cage and then let them out with rooster and the girls again and see what happens. I'm letting them out with the girls while rooster is locked in the coop as well since they all seem to be getting along. If this plan is flawed please tell me this is my first time with chicks and i don't want to make any horrible mistakes.
