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HotChick27

HotChick27

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Jun 4, 2013
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Hey guys,
So my first question is: What is the personality of a golden sex-link cockerel?
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My other question is if this is a rooster. Because when I purchased this little chick it came from the golden sex-link/ white plymouth rock bin. I came to think after looking up the body characteristics of the two breeds that they gave me the golden and called it the plymouth. Here is a picture of the two I bought, I think the white one is the rooster.
 
HotChick27 said:
Hey guys,
So my first question is: What is the personality of a golden sex-link cockerel?
- thanks
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Depends how you treat him. If you show him who is boss you will probably have a nice cock. If you sweet talk him and cuddle with him he will probably turn on you and attack. Show him who is boss and you'll be fine! :)

Good Luck!
 
HotChick27 said:
My other question is if this is a rooster. Because when I purchased this little chick it came from the golden sex-link/ white plymouth rock bin. I came to think after looking up the body characteristics of the two breeds that they gave me the golden and called it the plymouth. Here is a picture of the two I bought, I think the white one is the rooster.
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I see no picture(s)...
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Chickens are individuals just like people. You will always find a range of personalities in any group. How they are raised also figures into the equation. There will always be many, many more roosters available than those who want or need one.. Maybe you could find an adult rooster that is good with his flock and not aggressive to people.
 
I don't know anything about the golden sex-links in particular, but I do have a pet rooster - Buff Orpington, who I'd gotten mis-sexed with a batch of hens. Sweet talking and cuddling is exactly what I did with him - I handled him constantly once I figured out that he was a rooster - and while he was a bit more...sexually energized when he was a cockerel, he's four years old now and hops up in my arms to get petted and will sit there as long as I will.

Obviously, rooster aggression varies a great deal from breed to breed and among individuals, but my boy is by far my most personable chicken and my gals are all rather people-oriented. He is, however, housed separately from my hens, so he doesn't have much reason to get fired up.

If you're wondering about trying to identify a young cockerel by its personality, I've never personally had much luck with that, at least not until they're a bit closer to maturity. In retrospect, there were some very obvious early signs with my Orpington only because I had an Orpington hen to compare him to, but I've had several hens over the years - one which was a White Plymouth Rock, which I would have sworn by their behavior and appearance were cockerels and turned out to be pullets.
 

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