HeidiEmbrey
Songster
Does anyone have any clue what might be going on here or any advice whatsoever?
I hand raised a Silkie rooster from a chick, I was trying for a hen, but both chicks turned out to be roosters, and I had to find new homes for them because I'm not allowed to keep roosters..
I didn't want to get rid of this one because he was so friendly, very small, and cute, and wanted me to hold and pet him all the time. I kept him in with 3 hens, in a small cage at first, and then enclosed in a larger run, it is 11 feet by 5 feet, and had 4 chickens, him, and 3 hens so not a huge huge space. I held him for literally hours a day sometimes. He liked for me to walk around while holding him, and he liked to sit on my lap and watch The Office on Netflix. I raised these chicks in my bedroom over the winter and they got held a lot and were both extremely tame..
So..I found a new home for him and re homed him at around 4 months. He has been in his new home for about a month now, where he has free range in a very large fenced property, with a Silkie hen.
And now, his new owner says that every time she goes to let him out of the coop in the morning, he attacks her! He attacks her and her husband every time he sees them, and sneaks up on her in the garden and attacks her from behind! She says she doesn't know what to do because she doesn't want to kick him away, she's afraid she will hurt him. She and her husband have resorted to bringing a towel with them when they go near him, to throw over him when he attacks which he does every morning when they let him out of the coop.
She says he is also crowing literally a hundred times in a row which he never did here. He would only crow a few times in a row. And was very late to crow compared to the other silkie rooster who was bigger, I got rid of sooner.
What the bloody heck is going on? He only ever bit anyone once in the time I had him, he bit me once when I was picking up one of the hens and she was freaking out, he ran over and bit me once then in the back of the hand that was holding her. Clearly was defending her.
What can his new owner do to make him behave?
I am going to go over there and see if he still recognizes me and wants me to pick him up, or if he tries to attack me, within the next day or two.. Help? Any idea what might be going on, or what the new owner can do about this?
Thanks.. :\
I hand raised a Silkie rooster from a chick, I was trying for a hen, but both chicks turned out to be roosters, and I had to find new homes for them because I'm not allowed to keep roosters..
I didn't want to get rid of this one because he was so friendly, very small, and cute, and wanted me to hold and pet him all the time. I kept him in with 3 hens, in a small cage at first, and then enclosed in a larger run, it is 11 feet by 5 feet, and had 4 chickens, him, and 3 hens so not a huge huge space. I held him for literally hours a day sometimes. He liked for me to walk around while holding him, and he liked to sit on my lap and watch The Office on Netflix. I raised these chicks in my bedroom over the winter and they got held a lot and were both extremely tame..
So..I found a new home for him and re homed him at around 4 months. He has been in his new home for about a month now, where he has free range in a very large fenced property, with a Silkie hen.
And now, his new owner says that every time she goes to let him out of the coop in the morning, he attacks her! He attacks her and her husband every time he sees them, and sneaks up on her in the garden and attacks her from behind! She says she doesn't know what to do because she doesn't want to kick him away, she's afraid she will hurt him. She and her husband have resorted to bringing a towel with them when they go near him, to throw over him when he attacks which he does every morning when they let him out of the coop.
She says he is also crowing literally a hundred times in a row which he never did here. He would only crow a few times in a row. And was very late to crow compared to the other silkie rooster who was bigger, I got rid of sooner.
What the bloody heck is going on? He only ever bit anyone once in the time I had him, he bit me once when I was picking up one of the hens and she was freaking out, he ran over and bit me once then in the back of the hand that was holding her. Clearly was defending her.
What can his new owner do to make him behave?
I am going to go over there and see if he still recognizes me and wants me to pick him up, or if he tries to attack me, within the next day or two.. Help? Any idea what might be going on, or what the new owner can do about this?
Thanks.. :\
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