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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: northfifeduckling on May 16, 2014, 05:57:56 pm

Title: Do cockerels get more agressive with age?
Post by: northfifeduckling on May 16, 2014, 05:57:56 pm

My cockerel was always a gentle and chilled fellow, now I find that I have to shield him from the ducks in the morning or he'll charge at one or the other. It's only started this spring, so I'm not sure if that's normal with age?

Title: Re: Do cockerels get more agressive with age?
Post by: Fowlman on May 17, 2014, 02:12:29 pm

Sap is rising if you know what i mean and not unusual in spring.

Title: Re: Do cockerels get more agressive with age?
Post by: northfifeduckling on May 17, 2014, 03:53:08 pm

He's no longer a spring chicken (going on 6 or 7 now)  ;) and he'd never bothered the ducks before or got annoyed by them....

Title: Re: Do cockerels get more agressive with age?
Post by: bloomer on May 17, 2014, 03:55:27 pm

have his hens shunned him? can he no longer get them to submit on demand? is there another cockerel threatening his dominance?

Title: Re: Do cockerels get more agressive with age?
Post by: northfifeduckling on May 17, 2014, 04:00:10 pm

no, he's on his own and seems to get some in the mornings, no changes there. Spends most of the day with some of his girls...

Title: Re: Do cockerels get more agressive with age?
Post by: babysham on August 28, 2014, 09:41:18 am

Mine gets more aggressive daily and is very free range so not frustrated. He is being culled tho as my legs cant take any more spur holes.