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Yikes! and I thought cochin roos were supposed to be docile ones. I'm looking for a breed where the roos tend to be....well not so dangerous. I was leaning towards cochins, but now....
maybe I'll stick with hens.
Not all cochins are like that, in fact my head roo is a brown/red cochin and the sweetest boy ever, never bit or got jazzy with me or anyone else, the hens love him so much they just drop to their knees when he walks by whether he feels like mating or not. He is excellent looking out for the babies being raised in with the flock, however if there is an airborne predator he is the first to hide...
There were warning signs with the other cochin who bit my nose. When he was just 2 weeks old he charged me from inside the brooder, he had always wanted to latch on everytime I got my hands near him, he just had that look in his eye all the time. I swear he had the devil in him! I have had alot of cochin roos since him and none of them were like that, all were sweet, gentle boys.
Another incident was with a cuckoo marans rooster named Earl. Earl was scary! He started stalking me in the yard.... I would be walking towards the coop in the back yard and I'd have to have a shovel or large stick to bat at him with or he would take me down. He knew I had something in my hand one day to bop him with if he got too close so he decided to go all ninja on me. I heard him following me to the back so when i'd turn around he would hide behind a tree so I wouldn't see him, when i'd start walkin he would tip toe behind me dipping behind trees everytime I turned around. When I reached the coop I was bending down to pick something up and thats when it happened.. He came running toward me sooo fast I had no time to get up, he used my back as a ramp to get to the back of my head, once on my shoulders he grabbed a tuft of my hair in his beak and began flogging the heck out of the back of my head. Fortunately he didn't have large spurs at the time or I would have been shredded. He became dinner for an asian family and I was completely ok with that!
Yikes! and I thought cochin roos were supposed to be docile ones. I'm looking for a breed where the roos tend to be....well not so dangerous. I was leaning towards cochins, but now....
maybe I'll stick with hens.
Not all cochins are like that, in fact my head roo is a brown/red cochin and the sweetest boy ever, never bit or got jazzy with me or anyone else, the hens love him so much they just drop to their knees when he walks by whether he feels like mating or not. He is excellent looking out for the babies being raised in with the flock, however if there is an airborne predator he is the first to hide...
There were warning signs with the other cochin who bit my nose. When he was just 2 weeks old he charged me from inside the brooder, he had always wanted to latch on everytime I got my hands near him, he just had that look in his eye all the time. I swear he had the devil in him! I have had alot of cochin roos since him and none of them were like that, all were sweet, gentle boys.
Another incident was with a cuckoo marans rooster named Earl. Earl was scary! He started stalking me in the yard.... I would be walking towards the coop in the back yard and I'd have to have a shovel or large stick to bat at him with or he would take me down. He knew I had something in my hand one day to bop him with if he got too close so he decided to go all ninja on me. I heard him following me to the back so when i'd turn around he would hide behind a tree so I wouldn't see him, when i'd start walkin he would tip toe behind me dipping behind trees everytime I turned around. When I reached the coop I was bending down to pick something up and thats when it happened.. He came running toward me sooo fast I had no time to get up, he used my back as a ramp to get to the back of my head, once on my shoulders he grabbed a tuft of my hair in his beak and began flogging the heck out of the back of my head. Fortunately he didn't have large spurs at the time or I would have been shredded. He became dinner for an asian family and I was completely ok with that!
