Young rooster chasing my goose.

[sandicandi]

I have a couple of game chickens that migrated up to my property from a neighbor that lives way back in the woods and raises fighting roosters. He has at least 200 or more. The hens free range and a couple of them made their way to my house. I have pet pigs and started throwing them a handful of pig feed every day. One of the hens disappeared for a while and showed up one day with a little chick. I watched this baby grow up and it turned out to be a rooster. He is grown now and fairly tame as much as a game rooster can be and will come quite close to get feed. He doesn’t have long spurs yet but it’s a matter of time. He recently started chasing my pet goose. I have just the one goose and she stays right my the carport gate all the time, doesn’t wander off or even go to the pond, and I keep a baby pool for her right there. This morning I let my dogs out in the front yard and they went straight to the fence up front. A car passed by on the highway and I heard a honk. I looked and Ju Ju my goose was starting on the side of the highway and La Reaux, the rooster was standing there at the entrance to the driveway and seemed to be blocking her. I called her and immediately she came running back down the driveway but I could tell she didn’t want to go past him. Once she did, he chased after her all the way to the back yard. I know he must have chased her to the highway because she doesn’t ever go up there. I like the little rooster and hate to see him go but I cannot have him chasing Ju Ju up to the highway and getting her run over. Is there anything I can do to make him stop this behavior. If I could only make him understand how good he has it at my house as opposed to being born in captivity to that mean man who has all those fighting roosters tied by the leg and doomed to death. Is there anything I can do to make this work, I will not tolerate him terrorizing my goose, she was here first, she is our beloved Juju Bee and she will always come first.

 

[sourland]

He may be wanting to mate her or he may want to fight her. Either way, his behavior is not going to change. He may need a new home.

 

[Folly's place]

Welcome!
You could trap him in a live trap, maybe, and then have him in a pen at least until he's through 'adolescence'. If, and only if, he decides to be polite to your goose should he stay.
Agree, send him elsewhere, an excellent idea!
Your approximate location would help here too. Must be it's legal to have cock fights where you live? Sad...
Mary

 

[artbykarenehaley]

Catch him and pen him preferably with a couple girls his own age, or find him a new home. Those are the solutions I can come up with for a feisty boy. He sounds like he's in his extra hormonal stage. See if you can set a live trap for him with the pig feed in it.

 

[sandicandi]

Welcome!
You could trap him in a live trap, maybe, and then have him in a pen at least until he's through 'adolescence'. If, and only if, he decides to be polite to your goose should he stay.
Agree, send him elsewhere, an excellent idea!
Your approximate location would help here too. Must be it's legal to have cock fights where you live? Sad...
Mary

Mary, I live in Louisiana and it was the last state in the U.S. to make cock fighting illegal but it isn’t illegal to raise them. Apparently he’s been perfecting the fighting rooster for a long time and a lot of them are flown to the Philippines and other countries where it’s legal. Another neighbor of mine told me he takes them to just over into Mississippi to the Indian reservation where they are not under the same law as us and it is legal to fight them there. It is sad and ai wish I could make La Reaux understand that he needs to stop it or he’s out of here.

 

[chicknmania]

I have a couple of game chickens that migrated up to my property from a neighbor that lives way back in the woods and raises fighting roosters. He has at least 200 or more. The hens free range and a couple of them made their way to my house. I have pet pigs and started throwing them a handful of pig feed every day. One of the hens disappeared for a while and showed up one day with a little chick. I watched this baby grow up and it turned out to be a rooster. He is grown now and fairly tame as much as a game rooster can be and will come quite close to get feed. He doesn’t have long spurs yet but it’s a matter of time. He recently started chasing my pet goose. I have just the one goose and she stays right my the carport gate all the time, doesn’t wander off or even go to the pond, and I keep a baby pool for her right there. This morning I let my dogs out in the front yard and they went straight to the fence up front. A car passed by on the highway and I heard a honk. I looked and Ju Ju my goose was starting on the side of the highway and La Reaux, the rooster was standing there at the entrance to the driveway and seemed to be blocking her. I called her and immediately she came running back down the driveway but I could tell she didn’t want to go past him. Once she did, he chased after her all the way to the back yard. I know he must have chased her to the highway because she doesn’t ever go up there. I like the little rooster and hate to see him go but I cannot have him chasing Ju Ju up to the highway and getting her run over. Is there anything I can do to make him stop this behavior. If I could only make him understand how good he has it at my house as opposed to being born in captivity to that mean man who has all those fighting roosters tied by the leg and doomed to death. Is there anything I can do to make this work, I will not tolerate him terrorizing my goose, she was here first, she is our beloved Juju Bee and she will always come first. View attachment 3292087

He would probably calm down when he gets older but that's not going to help you now. If it were me, I'd try to report the neighbor anyhow. If the State is interested enough, they would be able to document what he's doing. I know how I would document it, so I'm sure they could figure it out too. If you can catch the cockerel, try penning him up for a few weeks where he can still see and socialize with the rest of the flock, and handle him every day. My other suggestion, although you'd have to find, raise, and acclimate him and that would take awhile, would be to get a gander. I don't know of a rooster anywhere who would take on a gander, especially a young cockerel.

 

[Folly's place]

Game type chickens are wonderful as birds, except that the roosters won't cohabitate. It's too bad that this is next door!
How about having a coop and pen for chickens, starting with this guy? Maybe it's meant to be?!
Or there's that 'get a gander' idea.
Mary

 

[sandicandi]

He would probably calm down when he gets older but that's not going to help you now. If it were me, I'd try to report the neighbor anyhow. If the State is interested enough, they would be able to document what he's doing. I know how I would document it, so I'm sure they could figure it out too. If you can catch the cockerel, try penning him up for a few weeks where he can still see and socialize with the rest of the flock, and handle him every day. My other suggestion, although you'd have to find, raise, and acclimate him and that would take awhile, would be to get a gander. I don't know of a rooster anywhere who would take on a gander, especially a young cockerel.

Thanks for your reply, actually I have reported it and tried with my local representatives to do something about it. We are in Louisiana and it isn’t illegal to raise them. He’s been doing this a long time and evidently makes good money from the sell of his birds. His wife’s heritage is Pilipino and he had birds flown there and other countries where it is legal. Another neighbor told me that he also takes them over to Mississippi where there is a big Indian reservation an the apparently not under the same law so it’s legal on the reservation. I talked to my husband about getting a gander as you suggested and I’ve been wanting to do that but my husband is afraid the Gander would take her off away from the house especially at night to the pond and this is how we lost our other geese because they don’t roost at night and they were down by the pond mating and flapping around in the pond and a bobcat killed them. Ju Ju stays right by the house and doesn’t go anywhere. I do like the idea of pinning him up and maybe getting him a couple of hens. He is definitely in his young “extra” hormonal self. There is another rooster that has a few game hens that took up residence at another neighbor just down from me. He came by with his girls a few times, but he has never chased Ju Ju like this youngster. Oh coarse he has his own hens so it may be that LaReaux is sexually frustrated.

 

[chicknmania]

Thanks for your reply, actually I have reported it and tried with my local representatives to do something about it. We are in Louisiana and it isn’t illegal to raise them. He’s been doing this a long time and evidently makes good money from the sell of his birds. His wife’s heritage is Pilipino and he had birds flown there and other countries where it is legal. Another neighbor told me that he also takes them over to Mississippi where there is a big Indian reservation an the apparently not under the same law so it’s legal on the reservation. I talked to my husband about getting a gander as you suggested and I’ve been wanting to do that but my husband is afraid the Gander would take her off away from the house especially at night to the pond and this is how we lost our other geese because they don’t roost at night and they were down by the pond mating and flapping around in the pond and a bobcat killed them. Ju Ju stays right by the house and doesn’t go anywhere. I do like the idea of pinning him up and maybe getting him a couple of hens. He is definitely in his young “extra” hormonal self. There is another rooster that has a few game hens that took up residence at another neighbor just down from me. He came by with his girls a few times, but he has never chased Ju Ju like this youngster. Oh coarse he has his own hens so it may be that LaReaux is sexually frustrated.

I hope you can catch him and that works out! I love geese. Have never had any for the same reason, our pond is in the woods and i'm afraid they'd go down there and disappear. Also it's funny but I have a hen named JuJu (we got her around Halloween a few years ago, so it seemed to fit). She's a 10 y.o. RIR who went broody this past summer and hatched just one beautiful hen chick!