- Nov 16, 2012
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Ok...after we got the silkie anytime that he would try to mate with the hens Bruce would go tell him off...this went on for weeks...then one day I'm in the coop doing stuff and watching the chickens and Bruce hops up on his favorite hen, the BO (she's the only hen near his size although I have seen him mating with the smaller hens) anyway he's on his hen and just when he gets settled the silkie flies out of nowhere and ninja kicks Bruce right off his hen. Bruce was too stunned to even retaliate. Before then it was always Bruce walking or running over to the silkie and the silkie bowing out and wandering off.
The time Bruce was my hero...
I was in the coop face timing with one of my friends hanging out with the chickens, and I bent down to clear some hay out of the chicken feeder and the silkie rooster starts flying at me pecking and clawing at my hand...so I stand up surprised and with a pecked hand wondering what the H just happened and this silkie keeps coming a me all about my shins and ankles...so I'm squealing and hopping around so I called Bruce and he comes running back in the coop and jumped all over that silkie.
Bruce has saved me 3x since then. I guess save me isn't right because its a silkie we are talking about, but he has rushed to my aid 3x. The times after the first I knew what was happening though so I would just keep pushing the silkie bak away from me til Bruce could come get him...he hasn't tried to attack me in awhile, so perhaps the rooster system of reprimanding has worked. Bruce also aided my husband once when the silkie flogged him. My hubby is 6'5" so he didn't seem to notice the silkie was attacking him. He was walking to the car and the the silkie started flying at the backs of his legs, and my husband turns and tells the silkie you better not attack me, and I was like honey, he's attacking you now...but Bruce was already there to jump on the silkie...
Poor silkie he's totally shut out now though. He is all the way at the bottom of the pecking order now. In the coop he won't go near any of the other chickens because when he does one of the other 2 Roos jumps on him. He seems very lonely. When I throw scratch I will try to give him some but as soon as another chicken comes over to eat some of it he wanders off to a more secluded spot in the coop. So somebody has to go. So hard. One rooster is fit to eat, but is a good rooster, and one rooster is bad and (as far as I'm concerned) not fit to eat... Decisions decisions. I shouldn't have Bruce and the silkie together though. All I wanted the silkie for was cute little fuzz mixed babies, and that is never going to happen as long as Bruce is up there...
Bruce lets the other cockerel mate the smaller pullets that he hasn't so far tried to mate. He mates the mom, but she is a mature hen, although still bantam sized...but she's bigger than her chicks ( the pullets) that are 6 months old... Anyway Bruce allows the other guy to mate, but never the silkie... So....anyone have any ideas that don't involve building another coop...the one we have is 18x20 ft so we don't need a new coop, just compatible Roos.
The time Bruce was my hero...
I was in the coop face timing with one of my friends hanging out with the chickens, and I bent down to clear some hay out of the chicken feeder and the silkie rooster starts flying at me pecking and clawing at my hand...so I stand up surprised and with a pecked hand wondering what the H just happened and this silkie keeps coming a me all about my shins and ankles...so I'm squealing and hopping around so I called Bruce and he comes running back in the coop and jumped all over that silkie.
Bruce has saved me 3x since then. I guess save me isn't right because its a silkie we are talking about, but he has rushed to my aid 3x. The times after the first I knew what was happening though so I would just keep pushing the silkie bak away from me til Bruce could come get him...he hasn't tried to attack me in awhile, so perhaps the rooster system of reprimanding has worked. Bruce also aided my husband once when the silkie flogged him. My hubby is 6'5" so he didn't seem to notice the silkie was attacking him. He was walking to the car and the the silkie started flying at the backs of his legs, and my husband turns and tells the silkie you better not attack me, and I was like honey, he's attacking you now...but Bruce was already there to jump on the silkie...
Poor silkie he's totally shut out now though. He is all the way at the bottom of the pecking order now. In the coop he won't go near any of the other chickens because when he does one of the other 2 Roos jumps on him. He seems very lonely. When I throw scratch I will try to give him some but as soon as another chicken comes over to eat some of it he wanders off to a more secluded spot in the coop. So somebody has to go. So hard. One rooster is fit to eat, but is a good rooster, and one rooster is bad and (as far as I'm concerned) not fit to eat... Decisions decisions. I shouldn't have Bruce and the silkie together though. All I wanted the silkie for was cute little fuzz mixed babies, and that is never going to happen as long as Bruce is up there...
Bruce lets the other cockerel mate the smaller pullets that he hasn't so far tried to mate. He mates the mom, but she is a mature hen, although still bantam sized...but she's bigger than her chicks ( the pullets) that are 6 months old... Anyway Bruce allows the other guy to mate, but never the silkie... So....anyone have any ideas that don't involve building another coop...the one we have is 18x20 ft so we don't need a new coop, just compatible Roos.
