Catching a wild rooster

2manychkns said:

Thanks!  We have actually been using a pellet gun, but my husband is a softy and just wants to run the rooster off and not kill him.  The problem is that one of the roosters will NOT be run off!  We have maybe shot this rooster at least 10 times in the last 3 days!!!!!

I don't know what these roosters are but they are extremely wiley and FAST!  They are able to fly over 7 ft fences and they are hard to shoot (at least for me -- hubby is quite good and pegs them every time).

I have never encountered chickens that are so fast and wild.  Last summer we had a hen and about 12 chicks that kept coming onto our property every single day.  Same thing!  I AM TIRED OF IT!!!

I keep my chickens under control.  Although occasionally they have wandered onto neighboring property, they stay mainly on MY property and I've never had a complaint.  I had a neighbor dog who killed one of my chickens who wandered, but I wasn't mad because I felt that was the consequence of the chicken going over there!

I had an Aracauna in my coop last week who I thought was dying -- you know how they separate themselves from the others.  I thought she was already dead, but when I reached to pick her up and dispose of her, she "came to life".  When I put her down, she would walk around, but her head hung underneath her and it looked like her eyes had been pecked out.  She had never been picked on before by any of the other hens and the only thing different was that we had started having problems with those neighbor roosters.  I ended up having to kill my hen to put her out of her misery.  She wouldn't have lived long after that anyway.

I just feel so frustrated that I can't even protect my own hens on my own property because of somebody else's rooster on MY property!

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