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I don't blame you Nella I would have disposed of him too...I cannot tolerate flogging period.  I really liked the way Thor handled strangers...Scott can attest...he just sorta stands back and watches to see if you are a threat to flock security.  Had Scott held food down he would have been much friendlier 

Speaking of butthead roos....that Severus is cruising for a spit.  He charges DH and gets punted like a football and the fool still continues.  He does not charge me since I grabbed him by the neck and overhand tossed him across the yard.  I must admit it was one of my better Hail mary passes. 

Ohhhh Scott, those flowers look great! I have let mine go this year, and they do not look as well as years previous. Just not enough time to get everything done. Darn job!

I can't tolerate flogging either. I need a rooster (or twenty) that are safe enough to be in the yard with random people wearing shorts and flip flops. Like my mother. She didn't know better and wore flip flops out Saturday morning to let the chickens out while I was at the sale. Cheapie rubber flip flops + WET grass + hill = Mama Bean slipping and sliding and falling down repeatedly before finally taking them off and going barefoot just to get to the top of the yard. Not a single rooster looked at her funny. Or maybe they were too busy laughing hysterically........

LOL  I can picture that!

I have had luck retraining roos and then not so much luck. I will only try so many times and when I feel it is to the point of him truly injuring me when I am not expecting it--he's outta there.

I ate my Lavender Orp the other day and enjoyed him. He was the meanest roo I have ever owned.  Nothing worked on him and I tried for months. He had gotten to the point of jumping face high to attack and that was it.

I was afraid my Light Sussex roo from Champion lines was going to have to go the same way, but I was able to get him to change his attitude.

For him... I had to stick him into the roo coop. I had alot of roos boarding together and I told them to beat the crap out of him. They did. He hid for a week.  Then he regained a certain pecking order.  I left him in there for almost 4 months and then I gave him another chance with his girls.

I can now go into the coop and not worry (much)  I guess I will be watching him for awhile, just because.  I think he was just too young when I gave him rule of the roost with the hens and he got nasty as teens will do. With reprimand and time out to mature a bit he has turned into an attentive but tolerant roo.

Some might think it was cruel but it is kinder to try everything before culling.

Nella,  I am picturing your mom. Sorry, but I am laughing hysterically myself!

About those roos .... I think there must be something about water that helps deter the flogging. Cheyene had success with it, and I had success with it (though it was rain).  Hmmm, I wonder.  I currently am housing 40 roosters in 3 pens, awaiting processing.

I have six or seven more roos you could add to those pens if you lived closer to Iowa I hatched out 7 and I have one I am still holding out hope for being a pullet. Two blue ameraucanas, 2 splash and three EE's.

Kathy water does work...I caught Severus stalking Cheyenne one day and I happened to have the hose in my hand, hosing off the back deck and I turned the spray nozzle on that strong jet stream and shot him in the chest and kept hitting him with it and pushing him backwards and right off the deck.  He decided Cheyenne was not worth stalking with me there.  Now I pick up the hose and Severus hauls tail feathers in the opposite direction. 

I am FROM southwest Iowa! (Missouri Valley)We moved here 4 years ago (preparing for retirement someday!).  DH goes through Iowa and Nebraska each week .... to go to work in Wyoming. (Home a week, gone a week).  But, no thank you! LOL

Hey Kathy check out the Kevlar glove thread...too cute

Is Cheyenne still in the business? Where is her business card? Get that girl to work!