I fell head over heels in live with this roo that our grandson lovingly named Friendly. His colors are so beautiful and he grew to be so masculine, he crows each morning and all throughout the day to let everyone know he’s in charge.
Then one day Will came inside moaning about how Friendly was being mean to him. We teased him about being afraid of a little 5 pound chicken, we all had a good laugh and went about our daily lives. As time progressed Will kept complaining about Friendly, it wasn’t until he told us he wanted to turn Friendly into stew that we began to realize there could be a serious issue.
Friendly was quite aggressive towards Will, however he had never acted that way towards my husband or myself & when we were in the coop with Will he was always well behaved. So we had assumed Friendly was just challenging Will when he was alone to see if he could put him in his place.
Shortly thereafter Friendly became aggressive towards all of us. He began trying to spur us, even though he didn’t have spurs yet, he’d jump up, kick us, flap his wings with his neck feathers all ruffled. It quickly became obvious that we had a problem.
We decided to separate Friendly into his own coop for everyones safety. We had hoped to eventually be able to breed him with our Easter Egger hens but with his aggressive nature we don’t want his offspring to inherit those traits. So for now Friendly, who has been renamed Cluck Norris for his stealthy attacks and unexpected back kicks, resides in his own coop away from the girls. He’s still so beautiful to me, I just wished his inner beauty matched his outer beauty.
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