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Author Topic: Do cockerels get more agressive with age?  (Read 1676 times)

northfifeduckling

  • Joined Jan 2009
  • Fife
    • North Fife Blog
Do cockerels get more agressive with age?
« 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?

Fowlman

  • Joined Apr 2012
  • Wiltshire
Re: Do cockerels get more agressive with age?
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2014, 02:12:29 pm »
Sap is rising if you know what i mean and not unusual in spring.
Tucked away on the downs in wiltshire.

northfifeduckling

  • Joined Jan 2009
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    • North Fife Blog
Re: Do cockerels get more agressive with age?
« Reply #2 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....

bloomer

  • Joined Aug 2010
  • leslie, fife
  • i have chickens, sheep and opinions!!!
Re: Do cockerels get more agressive with age?
« Reply #3 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?




northfifeduckling

  • Joined Jan 2009
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    • North Fife Blog
Re: Do cockerels get more agressive with age?
« Reply #4 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...

babysham

  • Joined Jun 2014
  • Lancashire/Yorkshire Border
Re: Do cockerels get more agressive with age?
« Reply #5 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.

 

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