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Except that this is not "nature" out in the wild. This is a livestock animal who needs to be able to accept and deal with the fact that people come and go in the coop and run and who needs to have enough sense to not attack the giant who brings food. In the wild an animal that senselessly...

A. Protecting people from an aggressive animal isn't "pointless". B. Guilt-tripping people who aren't willing to have their chicken keeping turned into a time of anxiety and wariness instead of joy and peace is silly. C. Keeping a known-aggressive animal that has drawn blood is a legal...

I don't ask them to be lap pets. But I'm not risking an ER visit from being spurred or, even more importantly, one of my grandchildren's eyes for the sake of a bird that's too dumb to know where his food comes from.

Why would I want to keep a dangerous animal that I had to avoid? I have no issue coping with and avoiding the black widows and the copperheads in my environment, but I shouldn't have to avoid MY OWN LIVESTOCK. I am willing to eat my way through as many roosters as necessary until I get one...

Until you get rid of him it would do no harm to put him into a dog crate so that you can work with the others without having to fear attack. It would be just like having a hen in a broody-breaker jail or new birds in an integration pen.

There might be a zoo or a raptor rescue that takes unwanted roosters to feed their hawks, eagles, etc.

With longer spurs to work with, that wound could have been deadly! I have grandchildren. I will be willing to go through many, many cockerels to get one who will behave. Aggressive roosters go for the eyes and can easily blind or maim a child. Solve for peace of mind and safety -- eat him...