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In the Brooder
My 7 week old rooster black austrathorp bites my arm and wont let go when i reach into there cage any discipline advice??
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a mean rooster only gets meaner as they get older.Lol its when i reach in to change food n water
Here's an excellent post written by my friend Bee Kissed. She has around 40 years of poultry keeping experience, as well as working with herd animals, and LGD.
I had a cockrel that started this behavior at 2 weeks old. He'd go into attack mode when ever I approached him, his siblings, or his broody Mama. I would do the finger poke, or snag him out of the tractor, and restrain him from flapping and kicking. All the while, he'd be reaching to bite me. I'd push his head down below his chest, and hold it there, and not release till he kept it down voluntarily. If he was a bit bigger, and in a run, I'd have used Bees method. Within 2 weeks, he became a model citizen, and never displayed aggression after that.