Very aggressive chick.....

[chickenzoo]

This is a first for me, I had a chick hatch out...maybe three weeks ago. Its only got wing feathers...rest fuzz and I know its a cockeral.....but he is so aggressive to the other chicks.he grabs them by the combs and trys to fight, ride their backs, flogg....I even caught him trying to breed another chick...... did I say he was still mostly fuzz. Talk about hormone overload!!!!!

 

[galanie]

He wasn't breeding he was showing aggression and the he's the boss. Hens will do that to each other to humiliate. GAH he sounds like a future cull.

 

[chickenzoo]

He was actually hanging off the back of a turkey poultry , humping it...... seen all the other actions before...just not that in one so young. I'll be keeping an eye on that one.....

 

[galanie]

I still say, future cull. WAY too agressive.

 

[chickenzoo]

I put his butt in with some older guiena keets.... They don't put up with crap. He's seem to have chilled out for now. I'm afraid I don't kill anything around here unless it is suffering......

 

[Indigosands]

I'd say get rid of it then. He's always going to be mean and aggressive and that behavior in my limited experience is contagious!

 

[OurLittlebitRanch]

Dinner

 

[galanie]

I understand not wanting to end a life. None of us enjoy it. But the thing about an aggressive bird is that aggressiveness is passed on to it's offspring. So if you keep the little monster at least don't hatch anything it might have been close to.