my rooster keeps attacking me!

hilltopchicka said:

I never go to the pen without bringing treats and I always talk sweet and soft to them ... I am very soft spoken anyhow. I'm hoping he will stop this behavior, but if he doesn't, well, we will see. I am very much enjoying raising chickens and I am anxious to learn all I can. I have been reading BYC forums for quite awhile now. It is very informative!! LOVE IT!! Thank you!!

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It's one of those very unfortunate things but if he hurts any of the grand kids it get get ride or make a nice chicken soup l

I put him in his own pen this morning, made sure he had water and food and he went for me through the mesh. I think he has made his feelings towards me perfectly clear.

LanceTN said:

When he attacks offer him food.

He sees you as either a threat to his hens or a competing rooster. Fighting him, or running away from him only serve to reinforce this mindset.

So do the thing a predator or competing rooster will never do, give him food.

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I put my aggressive rooster in a small coop all by himself. Fed and watered him twice a day. Hoped he would see me as the bringing of the good things that were keeping him him alive. Six weeks later let him out of the coop. Next day he attacked again. He did not live to see another day.

With all the really nice roosters around, why put up with an aggressive one? My new cochin rooster is huge and looks as if he could do real damage. However, he takes care of his girls and ignores me for the most part. Only negative is that he has the worst cock a doodle do I have ever heard.

You can't have it all. Trick for bad doodle dooers is to convince your mind the other roosters sounded awful yours is practically Pavarotti.

wamtazlady said:

I put my aggressive rooster in a small coop all by himself. Fed and watered him twice a day. Hoped he would see me as the bringing of the good things that were keeping him him alive. Six weeks later let him out of the coop. Next day he attacked again. He did not live to see another day.

With all the really nice roosters around, why put up with an aggressive one? My new cochin rooster is huge and looks as if he could do real damage. However, he takes care of his girls and ignores me for the most part. Only negative is that he has the worst cock a doodle do I have ever heard.

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You DON’T have to roast him!!!! I have problems with this too. You just need to tell him whose boss. Kind of like when you trains dog, you have to tell him what it wrong from right. Me and my siblings whenever we run into my rooster trying to attacking us, we have a stick or object so that if he tries and attack us, we protect ourselves with the stick and “hit” him hard enough to show him that you are not going to be attacked. This works for me and especially beside I’m the dominant one feeding the chickens, he doesn’t think of me as compition. He also is not afraid of the my father because he is bigger and won’t let him attack him. Hope you figure it out. Another thing could be possibly trying getting more chickens which might satisfy him.
Good luck!