What are your Brahma roosters like?

[wordgirl]

After having a bad experience with a Buff Orpington rooster in my last flock, I'm trying to figure out what I want to do for a rooster in my new flock. I'm looking at different breeds, and from a couple of informal surveys that I found (one my own) it looks like Brahmas tend to be on the nicer side. What has been your experience with your Brahma rooster? Do any of you have any that have attacked a person?

Thank you so much!

 

[azygous]

Penrod, my 10 month old Buff Brahma roo is shaping up to be quite the young gentleman after an initial problem with biting. Since Brahma roos are so huge, a bite can be like getting drilled with a power drill, and with about as much damage.

After there were no takers when I offered up Penrod for Christmas dinner to anyone who would kill and pluck him, I decided to work with him to overcome the biting problem. Discovering that it was sudden moves that upset Penrod and caused him to strike with his beak, I changed my manner around him and I began to treat him very gently. As a result, he no longer bites, enjoys being held and snuggled, and is a perfect gentleman and will not molest any hens that are close by me. He's never even once made any aggressive moves that might indicate he was thinking of flogging his human.

Besides my personal experience with my Brahma, I understand that they're generally very well-behaved. Also, their spurs tend toward being naturally blunt, though I believe I'll go ahead and remove Penrod's in another few months.

 

[wordgirl]

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Thanks! I guess you're right - even if Brahmas tend to be gentlemanly, if I get the mean one...look out! They are huge!

Thank you again!

 

[gritsar]

^^^^ He, Thor, is great. A very good roo both to his hens and his humans.

Then again, my other roo Impy (turken) is great too. He was scheduled to be culled this year because he's a clumsy lover and hard on the hen's heads, but he's such a protective roo especially where his chicks are concerned that DH is refusing to cull him.

 

[wordgirl]

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He's so pretty!

I think it might be fun to have a giant, gorgeous rooster like a Brahma, but not if I have to worry about him hurting my siblings.

Thanks, gritsar! Thor is a Dark Brahma, right?

 

[gritsar]

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He's so pretty!

I think it might be fun to have a giant, gorgeous rooster like a Brahma, but not if I have to worry about him hurting my siblings.

Thanks, gritsar! Thor is a Dark Brahma, right?

Correct, Thor is a LF dark brahma. Much bigger now than when that pic was taken @ a year old.

Just so you know, Thor has never been handled. Not even when he was a chick. I don't baby my roosters. I pretty much ignore them. When Thor has to be handled, for health checks, etc., I bring him in at night, after they've gone to roost. He's as gentle as a lamb.

 

[grasjm36]

My Brahma (named Bruce) is a BABY! He frequently takes sun bathes and pays no mind to arguing hens. Sometimes I wonder if he thinks he is a hen...

This is my one and only Brahma, I'm sure there's tougher guys out there lol.

 

[wordgirl]

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He's so pretty!

I think it might be fun to have a giant, gorgeous rooster like a Brahma, but not if I have to worry about him hurting my siblings.

Thanks, gritsar! Thor is a Dark Brahma, right?

Correct, Thor is a LF dark brahma. Much bigger now than when that pic was taken @ a year old.

Just so you know, Thor has never been handled. Not even when he was a chick. I don't baby my roosters. I pretty much ignore them. When Thor has to be handled, for health checks, etc., I bring him in at night, after they've gone to roost. He's as gentle as a lamb.

He's very handsome.

Your other roo, Zeus - was he a Brahma, too? And did you handle him or not? Our Buff Orp roo that we had we handled as much as we could as a baby, and he was fine with us until he was about five and a half months old, and then he began attacking humans. I've seen several people talking about how it's good/bad to handle cockerels when they're young - have you seen in your experience that it does have an impact either way? Thank you for your help.

 

[gritsar]

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Correct, Thor is a LF dark brahma. Much bigger now than when that pic was taken @ a year old.

Just so you know, Thor has never been handled. Not even when he was a chick. I don't baby my roosters. I pretty much ignore them. When Thor has to be handled, for health checks, etc., I bring him in at night, after they've gone to roost. He's as gentle as a lamb.

He's very handsome.

Your other roo, Zeus - was he a Brahma, too? And did you handle him or not? Our Buff Orp roo that we had we handled as much as we could as a baby, and he was fine with us until he was about five and a half months old, and then he began attacking humans. I've seen several people talking about how it's good/bad to handle cockerels when they're young - have you seen in your experience that it does have an impact either way? Thank you for your help.

I started out handling Zeus, a light brahma, when he was a baby and found out that was a mistake. Now I have Thor, Impy and three baby roos. None of them get handled anymore than necessary. Read my BYC page for more info. on that.

 

[wordgirl]

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He's very handsome.

Your other roo, Zeus - was he a Brahma, too? And did you handle him or not? Our Buff Orp roo that we had we handled as much as we could as a baby, and he was fine with us until he was about five and a half months old, and then he began attacking humans. I've seen several people talking about how it's good/bad to handle cockerels when they're young - have you seen in your experience that it does have an impact either way? Thank you for your help.

I started out handling Zeus, a light brahma, when he was a baby and found out that was a mistake. Now I have Thor, Impy and three baby roos. None of them get handled anymore than necessary. Read my BYC page for more info. on that.

Thanks!