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Too bad about freezer camp, too bad he can't come to camp seminole for behavior modification.
I didn't do the behavior modification. I think the duck is gonna handle it for me. I put the babies in the big pen but still in their brooder for a couple days so the old roo and the duck could get used to them. Then yesterday I let them out. Well, Little Meanness went straight for the duck and had him backed in a corner. Crazy, cause the duck is way bigger than that little roo. Anyway, the duck was terrified, for about two or three minutes. And then he'd had enough. Bit the daylights out of him. He sqwaked and came running. I wasn't in the pen, so I couldn't pick him up, but I watched. He got beaten around a bit then they left him alone. And he went back for more!!! He'll figure it out. The big roo finally had enough of the little roo running around and acting like that and put him in his place.
Today, they seemed to have established an order, and he's no longer the head roo at all. (Seriously, at this age could he already have been head roo??) Today, he was calm and docile and much more normal. So hopefully, this is going to help. I am also picking him up and carrying him. Until today, all that had gotten me was some extra efforts at biting. I've read that if you do that it helps them to see you as the dominant one. Not sure, but I'm hoping it works.
What do you do for behavior modification? It's gotta happen soon, because I have small children around and we can't have him acting like that around them. And since we let them out to range some, it could be dangerous for the kids if he continues this aggressiveness. He's just worrying me because he's the worst I've seen.