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It's a 4Kg bird, not a 50 kilo dog.

Well you would wouldn't you if you were their size.:p

Thanks.

I don't know Mrs J. One really needs to see the sequence of events and often quite important, not what the subject is doing but what the others do when the subject does what it does. I haven't had a rooster challenge me for many years now. In fact I'm not sure I've ever had a rooster challenge...

Understandable. You've got your wings spread and that could be seen as threatening. Lowering of the head and pecking at the ground, often moving towards the opponent is pre fight behaviour. No idea really what that's about. Chickens usually make a sound when approach the group. I call it...

This is likely to go wrong because roosters are not in the pecking order and niether should you be. That's all one should ask from a rooster. If I may ask, what changes have you made to your behaviour and what were the results? This might bang a bit of a hole in the aggressive gene arguement...

The strangest thing of all to me is we are talking about a 5 kilo max bird more often than not v a human at least 10x that bodyweight. When someone brings me a 50 kilo rooster I might be worried.

There is a difference between coming to an arrangement with an aggressive rooster and making him tame. I think a lot of people are interested in having a tame rooster and that takes time. There are also culture differences and experience differences. The ex cock fighting chicken keepers I knew...

I have, 4 that I can think of at the moment. I think Dobie Lover here on BYC has, plus a few others who don't post on the subject any more.

I wrote an article which I hoped would help people who were having rooster problems. Pay particular attention to the fact that these were free range roosters. Roosters confined may need a different approach. It's a long article and it won't tell you how to fix a problem. What it may help you...