Aggressive cock

If the cock scuffles

Aggressiveness of the cock can be caused by different reasons. For example, by the lack of the space given for the birds. Then the cock accepts the intrusion of other birds as an encroachment upon its territory. The cock can even display aggressiveness because of the changes in its master's clothes. Catching of hens, their loud clucking or taking eggs out of nests in its presence also makes it nervous and agitates it.

The violation of the correlation between the amount of cocks and hens often becomes the reason for aggressiveness. The proportion of 1:10 can be considered normal.

For two or three days a pugnacious cock can be kept on a hunger diet in a darkened place, having provided the cock with the free access to water. Some people also cut the upper part of the beak and heels. 5-6 hours before the operation the cock should not have any feed. One third of the beak is to be cut. The operation is carried out carefully so as not to injure the tongue. The wound is cauterized with burning hot metal, tincture of iodine or manganese concentrated solution. If within 2 or 3 hours the wound continues to bleed, it is again treated with iodine or manganese solution.