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I have never tried to rehabilitate a bad cockerel, though there are people on here who have with mixed results. I don’t think that having your cockerel by himself is humane for the long term, even if he can see the other chickens. Chickens are flock animals and need to have physical contact...

If you don’t have the heart to put him down then find someone who does. You are risking him seriously hurting your daughter and a chicken isn’t worth that…

Ok, looks like there a lot of cockfighting experts in here. Good to know!

Why quarantine him if you weren’t keeping him? You already said that’s why you got him. Your “not caring” about him being stressed is not “respect” unless you are using a definition that is different from everyone else’s. You’re right, I don’t withhold feed from my meat animals. Their comfort...

I’m all for using roosters for meat if they have no other purpose but I think it needs to be done quickly and in the most humane way. Moving an animal to a new home is stressful and keeping an flock animal in solitary confinement is very stressful. I’m sure you had your reasons for doing it that...

The problem with rehoming an aggressive rooster is that you could be advertising to cock fighters. It still happens and that would not be a good result for this rooster. Hopefully an ad on this website wouldn’t end with that result but @Santamanhank might have to advertise in a few places to get...

An aggressive rooster should be culled, not sold or given away. Take him off the roost at night and use the broomstick method. It will be much easier on him than getting rehomed and then end up in the soup pot anyway. Do it at night so he has less fear and he won’t attack you. The broomstick...