At Christmas I hatched out a chick that was and Ameraucana x Speckled Sussex. He had yellow feet when he hatched, but they turned white a week or so later. He is now getting the white tips on his feathers like his mother.He started crowing at about two weeks old, silliest thing you ever heard!
I have a problem with him, though, he tries to flog my hand every time I reach into the brooder to feed and water them. His brooder mate is a bantam cochin, who is sooo sweet! They are as different as night and day. I mention this because his daddy is my blue roo, and he has started attacking me when I am around the coop.
It has happened to many times the last couple of weeks, I am ready to send him off to freezer camp.
I know aggression like that is often passed on genetically. His first little apple sure didn't fall far from the tree. Do you think I will have that problem with all his male babies? I have 20 eggs in the incubator now, I would love to think I will have a nice roo in there somewhere.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Aggression is passes down by the hen not the rooster. make note of which hens the aggressive birds come from and then remove hen from the hatching eggs pool.
