Welshies
Crowing
Yep, little bit! I never keep a rooster who isn't nice to his ladies, the chicks, and me.so he's a bad egg, hu?
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Yep, little bit! I never keep a rooster who isn't nice to his ladies, the chicks, and me.so he's a bad egg, hu?
So she will be head down scratching the ground and he will run full speed up behind here and WAM! smacks into the back of her. She squawks and bounces away.I would not recommend penning him with just one hen either. It would make her life a misery. I can't visualise the behaviour you describe as "bumper cars" or should I say that it does not equate to anything I have witnessed, so I would struggle to explain it. Maybe he is just testing the water to see how she reacts.
I am hoping. He is in his own little area for right now until I can be sure he's not going to hurt any of my ladies.Young cockerels are A-holes a lot of the time. He may mature out of it and then again he may just be a rehome project.
I get it is not his fault. I'm not blaming him for his behavior. I just wanted to 1) know if the behavior is normal for rooster/hen relationships because I have no clue and 2) if the rest of my flock is in danger. I can't allow a rooster to harm or kill any of my pullets, regardless of the reasons behind his behavior.But this is a "cockerel" ie. an immature rooster under a year old. He is at the whim of his hormones and with no adult chickens to put him in his place and teach him some manners and generally how to behave, so to a certain extent it is not unreasonable that he is acting the way he is. In a more normal environment, he would have a senior rooster (possibly his sire) and mature hens that would not allow him to run riot, but humans create this situation where juvenile males grow up with no "parental" guidance if you will, because they are hatched in incubators and raised in brooders with siblings and no mature birds to give them social rules. It is not really this birds fault that he is acting like this but it may be hard to rehabilitate him. He just has poor social skills and raging hormones.
LOL you know when I got to the photo part of that sentence, I heard tango music in place of whatever words would go there. LOLthis boy here View attachment 1234002 is like...with his girls.
that I was sort of replying to.I never keep a rooster who isn't nice to his ladies, the chicks, and me.
To be honest, he was the least friendly of my first chickens that I brought home! Never aggressive, though, just didn't like to be approached and never took to being touched. So I kept my distance. But I loved to watch him. He would do some funny stuff. I'm pretty attached to all my birds.Pretty much all cockerels are nice until their hormones kick in. Most people who find out they have an accidental cockerel in their order of pullets will say that they are devastated because it is their "favourite". It is because male chicks are bolder and therefore appear more friendly to us. They pretty much all go through a horrid hormonal stage, much like human teenagers.