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It's exactly that type of stuff that I worry about. We run a pretty open farm and often young kids will come with their parents while I am here to see all the animals. We have horses, dogs, cats, chickens, turkeys and ducks. They love to feed them, collect the eggs and occasionally touch their...

One would think that after 7 or 8 thousand generations of domestication and with literally millions of macho roosters meeting an inglorious end at the business end of a chopping axe every year that roosters by now would display considerable progress toward acquiring a pusillanimous dispossession...

I agree but there is a big difference between the deep seated ingrained behavior to shy and run away and the behavior to attack humans because they feel they need to defend their territory or mares/hens. If the rooster ran away from me I would have no problem with that as would my fore fathers...

Funny thing is I have a Doberman here as well lol. He goes out with the chickens every day and counts his birds it's the funniest thing. If he can't find someone he gets really upset. He's the sweetest lovebug. I think roosters are the same thing and you can get a good one or a bad one no...

And the long and the short of it as has been said before is that type of rooster who feels that he needs to attack every time we come in and are merely walking around our yard can not be allowed to live and breed more with the same genetic traits. My birds are free range and I'm sorry if you...

A horse that is shying is definitely not the same thing as a rooster attacking you. It would be more akin to a stallion charging and trying to kill you in the pasture just because you are there and around his mares. Also a natural way for a horse to behave but I have to tell you if my horse...

Unless, of course, OP wants to train him not to attack by sitting out among the chickens and letting him repeatedly attack until he figures out the efforts are futile. That's OP's option, of course. Here, he'd be beheaded, dismembered and eaten. Um no I don't think so. All my other birds I...

First off I was not chasing the young turkey poult I was opening the door to the greenhouse where he was housed and HE ran up to me to be picked up. I merely was moving him so I wouldn't hit him with the door on the way in which I have done hundreds of times since they have gotten here. They...

That is usually my policy too. This one was given to me and was pretty good for the most part but would pick fights with my other roosters. With my other rooster around he never would do anything like this and was totally fine but a little standoffish. I figured he wasn't used to being picked up...

That's half the problem with this rooster. I wasn't the one that raised him from a chick. All the ones I have ever had have never attacked anyone. I usually give them three strikes for bad behavior. After that they are dinner, but the ones I raise are all super nice and love being held by...

So I am not the type of person to kill indiscriminately. I usually need a really good reason. Once a chicken becomes a member of the flock whether they are a rooster or a hen they are there for life not just for a little while. Last year I added a new 6 month old rooster to my flock because my...