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How To Raise A Friendly Rooster!

Roosters can be aggressive and loud.

Many chicken keepers even avoid roosters in their flock due to their “complicated” attitude. They are aggressive and often bully other chickens in the congregation.

Most chicken keepers keep one rooster per 7+ hens, none at all, or, in some cases, separated from the hens.

Chicken keepers that allow their eggs to hatch can sometimes get a few unwanted roosters and are forced to send them to a new home or put them down due to the unstable character the rooster can have.

However, there are steps that a chicken keeper can follow to raise a friendly rooster that can protect your flock.

A Rooster Should Be Friendly To You And Your Flock

To raise a rooster that will be friendly to you and the rest of the flock, you have to follow some rules concerning the process of submitting a cockerel into a rooster.

Although small cockerels are undeniably cute and cuddly, if you spoil them too much, they will not be able to provide adequate protection to your flock.

Also, you mustn’t show fear to your rooster and show him that you are the authoritative figure.

Raise A Friendly Rooster

– Start when the rooster is young. Spend as much time as you can hold the cockerel and not hit him.

When the rooster is still young, you also want to start slowly introducing him to the flock, which will help make the rooster friendly toward them.

NEVER-EVER Hit Your Rooster

Smacking, punching, or kicking your rooster to show him who’s boss is not a good idea, and it never will be.

If you want to show authority to your rooster, grab him and hold him up for about 10/15 minutes until he stops rebelling and stays calm.

Spraying the rooster with water also doesn’t work, and it can hurt your rooster – badly.

What Kind Of Behavior Should You Encourage In Your Roosters

Roosters develop habits that can question your authority.

They also want attention, so the best way to avoid some of these habits is to pay no attention to your rooster when he is doing some of those activities.

Do not let your rooster mate in front of you; this is typical behavior for roosters that want to challenge their chicken keepers, and if you pay attention to him while he is doing it, that will only motivate him to do it more.

Raise A Friendly Rooster

As part of the rooster’s challenging behavior, there is also the direct approach when the rooster attacks his keeper when the keeper enters the chicken coop.

Secondly, you can go with Faverolles Roosters. You’ll see them dashing around your backyard and bumping each other. They tend to be happy and hyperactive types of roosters.

Thirdly and our last suggestion will be Silkie Rooster. Although they tend to be cute and fluffy, there are many cases in which this type of rooster shows a weird temperament.

What kind of roosters do you have in your flock? Share your rooster-related experiences with us in the comment section below or via e-mail at support@typesofchicken.com.

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2 thoughts on “How To Raise A Friendly Rooster!”

  1. We have a HUGE Buff Brahma Rooster, the biggest I ever saw, but he is also the friendliest, and most attentive toward his ladies you could ever hope to find.

    Big Boy weighs almost 20 pounds, so help me, but doesn’t have a mean bone in his body, he is about the size of a medium size turkey, but eats out of the hand of my 8-year old grandson readily.

    He finds food for his ladies, then stands back while they eat, and when I throw treats to them, he rarely runs ahead of the hens, rather he waits until I throw some his way.

    He stands guard over them and whenever they sense danger, they run to him for protection as quickly as possible.

    Just the other day, Big Boy found a snake in the yard, and snatching it up, he ran with it in his beak while the hens ran after him in pursuit.

    He has spurs about 2 inches long but he poses no danger at all to us, rather we can pet him and he eats it up, even our two dogs get along with him, but he watches over his little flock with a watchful eye out for danger, and calls them to him, ready for action, as soon as he spots any kind of threat at all.

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  2. We got a bunch of chicks this spring and four of them were roosters. So we got rid of three of them and kept the nice one and he now live on the other side of the fence. I pick his up a lot and he seems to be very happy and nice. Pursenele if you don’t have them with the hens they seem to stay nice.

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