🚨Wanted: Tips for Raising Hormonal Bad Boys

I make sure mine get slapped around by the older hens, but if they continue to misbehave, they often end up in the pot.

Mrs. K said:

It can be hard to identify a rooster. Sometimes you know practically when they jump out of the nest, and sometimes not for weeks. Once I didn't catch on until HE Crowed.

For me, the one being attacked, he is in the cull list.

What the aggression is telling you, is this is NOT a single act of aggression, and I can fix this. This is the aggression is rising in the flock, that is the worst case, but there is other aggression I would almost bet.

Strongly consider pulling all the cockerels out of your set up. How much space do you have? That will let things calm down and your pullets will be healthier.

At least get rid of half of the roosters. If you can't eat them, plant a rose bush.

Mrs K

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Space shouldn't be an issue. The coop is the size of a tiny home and the run is bigger.

Mystery...nold older birds to teach anyone.

Kiki said:

So the boys are just beating up the one girl. They seem to get along with everyone else for now.

Does the one girl stay confined or do they need to remove one of the mean boys?




There is no right way or one answer. I know.

We just need ideas on things to try to keep the peace for a little while longer.

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If the Ghost isn't ready to choose which cockerel gets to live, all the cockerels need to be separated from all of the pullets.

I thought the ghost was going to be here soon?

Question- does a ghost keep ghost chickens?

The ghost should be here any sec. She's busy catching up on her ghost alerts.

Kiki said:

Ghosts don't eat stew.

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Valid point

Casper!


The ghost may want to stay anonymous.

EverythingDucks said:

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Consider this thread part of your birthday present.

I'm currently trying to rehome four of the cockerels. No luck yet.

As for the bullied cockerel, he is a Polish and his head feathers haven't been able to fully come in due to being picked on in the brooder.
At first it was not just the other cockerels who were picking on him. Which ever ones saw the blood from his feathers breaking would pick on him. So he was removed from the coop (long story) for about two days. I was hoping it hadn't been too long and set him in the coop while I was adding bedding to the box I was keeping him in, and two of the other cockerels immediately went after him. This was at night when they were all on the roosting bars.

This was obviously not a smart decision on my part, which I realized right away. I'm not sure I would consider this all to be aggression from the cockerels. It seems to me like they were just picking on him because of the bald spot and only attacked when I set him back in after being separated for a few days.

Aside from the situation with the polish (who is now in a dog kennel in the coop) the cockerels are getting along fine. The few times they've bothered eachother another cockerel broke it up.
Though I do have way too many at the moment and one of them likes to bite so I will be rehoming all but three.
I'm trying to figure out how to deal with them until they're gone if they do cause any problems.