Young Roo, Big Bully

[Folly's place]

There's always the big girl flock!

 

[WallyBirdie]

There's always the big girl flock!

Very true! I'm so grateful for everyone's advice here. I have already learned so much (and I am not new to raising chickens; I've just been lucky with well behaved birds).

 

[TropicalBabies]

You got some good advice IMO but I'm still going to chime in with my story of my big handsome snotty cockerel. I put him in a real functioning flock with an established rooster. The rooster did the training that I was not able to do. I brought him back to my little flock and he was a complete gentleman after that. It did not take long. It was a little hard watching the fights and the dominant roo eventually kick his big beautiful Brahma butt. But soooo worth it.
Keep us posted if you can

 

[Folly's place]

Social critters do best growing up in society! Normal flocks, herds, whatever, are multigenerational, and the younglings learn from the adults and experienced oldsters.
Mary

 

[TropicalBabies]

PS. The Brahma cockerel REALLY needed a good licking... lol. So full of his self, so mean to my sweet girls. He came back dancing and showing food to young pullets so happy to come home. I could not believe the night and day behavior. It was truly awesome.

 

[WallyBirdie]

PS. The Brahma cockerel REALLY needed a good licking... lol. So full of his self, so mean to my sweet girls. He came back dancing and showing food to young pullets so happy to come home. I could not believe the night and day behavior. It was truly awesome.

Thank you for sharing your story! I've already put my boy (a Wyandotte named Adam) back with the flock and he has been a gentleman since. I'll keep an eye on things and try rooming him with the hens or other roo if needed.

 

[WallyBirdie]

Social critters do best growing up in society! Normal flocks, herds, whatever, are multigenerational, and the younglings learn from the adults and experienced oldsters.
Mary

I have my original flock with 2 generations, and there is a newly added set of polish and guinea juveniles- all getting along well. I have my turkens in a separate enclosure for breeding, just had my first successful hatch recently. And I built a new/larger coop for my new birds. The new birds are mostly too small to let them free range with the larger ones due to predators. Once they get a bit bigger, that won't be as much of an issue.