Mellowmalt
Songster
My first cockerel was a brute of a monster but I thought I could train him. How wrong I was lol.
I did manage to teach him a bit of manners but he was always looking for an opportunity to charge once your back was turned and pingu looks exactly the same. As soon as the person feeding enters the pen you should be seeking him out first! Ignoring him is the opposite. It's his pen (he thinks so) so when you go in there and ignore him that's like pretending he is not there which will drive him mad, you should be announcing your approach to him, he should acknowledge you, you acknowledge him, then any of this lifting his head and bolstering his chest out and you grab him and turn him on his back, they really don't like this, then turn him right way round and press his head into the ground, stare at him and hold him there for a few seconds.
It won't solve your problems but it will teach him some respect. Mine would always try his luck eventually again.
I remember one time he got me real good in my knee cap, I was limping around for days but not before I swung round and gave him the biggest kick ever that might have even broken some of his ribs.
He was terrified of me for a week, thought I'd permanently traumatised him but he soon forgot that incident too and within a week was back to his usual self.
I actually like the cattle prod idea but I also know there are better behaved cockerels to be had too and it makes such a difference if you'd ever had a nice cock you wouldn't think twice about getting rid of pingu.
I did manage to teach him a bit of manners but he was always looking for an opportunity to charge once your back was turned and pingu looks exactly the same. As soon as the person feeding enters the pen you should be seeking him out first! Ignoring him is the opposite. It's his pen (he thinks so) so when you go in there and ignore him that's like pretending he is not there which will drive him mad, you should be announcing your approach to him, he should acknowledge you, you acknowledge him, then any of this lifting his head and bolstering his chest out and you grab him and turn him on his back, they really don't like this, then turn him right way round and press his head into the ground, stare at him and hold him there for a few seconds.
It won't solve your problems but it will teach him some respect. Mine would always try his luck eventually again.
I remember one time he got me real good in my knee cap, I was limping around for days but not before I swung round and gave him the biggest kick ever that might have even broken some of his ribs.
He was terrified of me for a week, thought I'd permanently traumatised him but he soon forgot that incident too and within a week was back to his usual self.
I actually like the cattle prod idea but I also know there are better behaved cockerels to be had too and it makes such a difference if you'd ever had a nice cock you wouldn't think twice about getting rid of pingu.