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Thank you for clarifying! And I am glad you survived, unscathed (?) your attack from not one, but three (!) feathered fiends! Good grief! Have you any idea who "gifted" you these monsters? I read here once the saying, "the meaner the roo, the sweeter the stew!" Did you find that to be true? 😉 It...

I "offered" him my cane, right across his neck, about 20 times, with all my strength. I was trying to take his head off. It didn't faze him a bit. You need to read my posts a little more carefully.

That's one way of dealing, lol!

Mike - the roo that attacked me - had been influenced by an older rooster when he was young. That older roo was pretty hard on him, snd Mike was pretty much a loner until that older roo died (I don't remember what happened to him). Mike was a very good roo for a couple of years, up until his...

We were roosterless for a while. I ordered a BJG cockerel with my next batch of chicks as his replacement, which consisted of some EE pullets, BA pullets and BA cockerels. The BA cockerels went to the freezer and the BJG became the new flockmaster. He did a lovely job till the coyote got him.

Exactly. Mike was flying up as high as my face during all this. Terrifying.

Thank you, I won't. I wonder when people say their roosters attacked them, if they mean what I went through, or if they mean a mild little flogging. I could likely catch a rooster flapping threateningly at me, but this rooster was like something out of a Terminator movie.

When my rooster came at me there was nothing funny about it. I've told this story before. I had shorts on. I was over 65 at the time and walk with a cane. I'd gone out to feed the chickens. He'd never bothered me before, although my 12-yo grandson said he'd flown at him a few times. I'd taken...

It is interesting you say you picked up a rooster that was attacking you. A rooster attacked me once and there was no way I could have "picked him up" while this was going on. It was all I could do to protect myself, much less try and get hold of him.

Agreed! My best roosters have been raised by other roosters and bossy hens.

I don't typically have "issues" in my flock of 24 (12 pullets, 12 hens. Well, 11 hens now). But I had to put a hen down this morning after trying for three days to relieve a blocked crop. She seemed perfectly fine until suddenly she wasn't. When I tossed out their scratch the other day she was...

I can assure you, she is not typical of her breed. You got an aberration. 😳

Whatever his reasons, they don't justify his actions.

That's amazing. Well, there's no doubt she's a hen, and she's certainly a BO ... I'm just really surprised. All my BOs were absolute sweethearts. I'm hereby revoking her card! 🤣

Can we get a picture of this hen? How old is she?

Yes, i'm a vindictive old hag. :mad:

I was too mad to process the, er, bugger. The Man carried him out yonder and tossed him in the woods for the coyotes and anyone else that wanted a piece of him.

Folks, a rooster's spurs are not his only weapon. When a rooster raked me from behind, completely unexpectedly, and I turned to face him, he then charged at me and got me just under the knee with his beak! He hit me so hard, it felt like a full-grown man had swung at me full force with the claw...

I see your point, Shad.