Show off your Old English Game Bantams!!

[maribameche]

My little babies does anyone have problems with their roos being aggressive? Local store said all were hens.. turned out they lied lol I have young children and can't have Cluck Norris attacking my kids. I don't want to get rid of him but my kids come first.

 

[sue25]

View attachment 740853 View attachment 740990 My little babies does anyone have problems with their roos being aggressive? Local store said all were hens.. turned out they lied lol I have young children and can't have Cluck Norris attacking my kids. I don't want to get rid of him but my kids come first.

I've never had an aggressive roo go after people only another roo for pecking order. Handling them also keeps them very tame.

 

[maribameche]

I've never had an aggressive roo go after people only another roo for pecking order. Handling them also keeps them very tame.

I try to handle them and they'll let me sometimes and jump onto my shoulders and my lap but most of the time they run away.... unless I'm giving them treats lol

 

[WVduckchick]

My males are not the most friendly (the girls are super-sweet), but I can handle most of them, once I get them to stop running lol! I had one roo that despised my red feed scoop, but only the red one. He would try to flog it! But has never been aggressive toward any people.
Now, they will get on opposite sides of fences, and boy oh boy! Bloody combs thru the fence, etc. I have a young roo now, in a pen with his daddy and some girls, and he gets a little aggressive when the girls aren't feeling submissive. But its basic chicken stuff. In that same pen is a momma raising 6 little ones, and none of the other chicks have been aggressive toward the babies at all.

 

[maribameche]

I'm so glad!! I've read so many stories about old English bantams roosters almost ALWAYS being aggressive and i was so devastated because I love clucky!! lol he's such a good cockerel to his girls. When they start fighting he breaks it up and he's so sweet when he lets me hold him lol my daughter loves him and I'm feeling very hopeful now

 

[SunHwaKwon]

I'm so glad!! I've read so many stories about old English bantams roosters almost ALWAYS being aggressive and i was so devastated because I love clucky!! lol he's such a good cockerel to his girls. When they start fighting he breaks it up and he's so sweet when he lets me hold him lol my daughter loves him and I'm feeling very hopeful now

I have 11 of them right now and not a single one is aggressive. There is some pecking order type stuff, but that's it. I have two that are very people friendly; the rest are not unfriendly but not apt to let me handle them, though they will approach for treats.

 

[maribameche]

Thank goodness!! lol I had old English recommended to me and everything I read was saying the roosters are aggressive haha apparently those people never handled theirs!

 

[SunHwaKwon]

Thank goodness!! lol I had old English recommended to me and everything I read was saying the roosters are aggressive haha apparently those people never handled theirs!

Perhaps people assume that because they (the large version, at least) were bred for fighting...similar to how some people will describe pit bulls as being aggressive though it is not necessarily an inborn trait and comes down to how they are handled and trained.

 

[maribameche]

I have pitbulls too and they wouldn't hurt a fly lol unless someone tried to break in and hurt us. Maybe I'll have a guard chicken!

 

[TattooedChicks]

My little girl Dime is making quite the habit of perching on me for some afternoon chitchat. She's the only one so far to greet me with a funny sounding 'tee-tee-tee-tee' when I drop in for a visit.