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When you use lead to dispatch something please bury it deep. By feeding the lead filled carcass to the Vultures you are poisoning them.
I use steel shot in my shotguns or lead free in my 22. It's law in California for a very good reason.
You can relocate the Roo for awhile. Then download an mp3 of a rooster crowing and play it over and over with a large speaker out the window. When he comes over to complain tell him the rooster is gone and you think he is crazy!
A big dollop of toothpaste on your hands will get rid of that chicken smell.
Also some Vicks vapo Rub under your nose on your top lip will numb your sense of smell so you don't have to smell everything.
Wood dowel, wrap with natural gum rubber, dip in kerosene to make rubber very sticky and sprinkle with sesame seeds and place near coop. Sparrows will stick to dowel. My friends father used to do this and kill the sparrows and eat them. He was a boy in WW2 .