When should a rooster become a gentleman? Training needed?

[Adenium]

Yes, I am eagerly awaiting that nice color to come in on the tip of the wings. They should just grow those from the start and keep us from wondering for the first few weeks! "Look I'm a partridge hen! Wait, no, look at my black feathers! Now I'm beetle green!"

 

[CochinBrahmaLover]

LOL

 

[CochinBrahmaLover]

wait, why isnt he allowed to breed the silkies???

 

[Adenium]

Because others have posed the potential issue of him being too big and hurting them due to the size difference. No first-hand accounts, but I have heard that broken legs and damaged hips can come from a standard mating a bantam. This is probably our biggest worry with keeping a roo, and we currently have no facilities to separate him with the two bigger girls. Ideally I'd get him the standards their own coop and get a few more girls for him, but that's not in the works. We don't even have our first coop and run set up yet!

 

[CochinBrahmaLover]

Oh, so the silkies are grown?

I see, the only prob I've heard is when you cross a bantam w/ a standard is the chicks eggs are too small for them to grow.

 

[Adenium]

No, they aren't grown (all the same age). But we know they'll be tiny compared to the roo!