Aggressive rooster

[Not-so Slick Chicken]

I somehow missed your response last year. Although I appreciate all advice I'm glad I didn't feel the need to take training my rooster so aggressively. My Roo and I have reached an understanding as well as he with my children. I do tell them to carry a stick in the coop if they need to be in there but since my first post we actually raised an additional 6 roosters and although they are a bit aggressive with mating my hens and are now all separate from the hens... I keep all 7 roosters together and I can go into their area Inside their enclosure or out in the pasture with no issues and I pick them up regularly with no issues as well. My kids have played in the area and collected eggs every now and then. Now that we have "grown" the roosters out most will be butchered this weekend minus the original aggressive one and one other we decide to keep. Sounds crazy I know..and actually I had a brief thought while I was in the run with all 7 roosters that what if they decide to come at me especially as I'm chasing hens out of the run (that accidentally got in) ... but then walk over and crouch down at their level at the feeder and pet them and pick one up..reminds me that we all can be happy together and reminds them I'm their care taker and they better mind me and I dont have to kick them or carry a defense weapon or anything. I also had to use my foot tonight to get them all off a hen that jumped off the roosts..they all gang up on the hens and all at once pile on top of them and I pushed each one off with my foot and picked my hen up and put her on the roost and shoo'd the roosters back into the roosts..never once did any of them come at me or attack my foot either

Fascinating
Granted, I skimmed through the comments from the start of your story
I imagine yours is a very rare case that will not work almost ever, but it's interesting that anybody could have an aggressive bird that actually seemed to grow out of it.

We don't have aggressive birds (that behavior would be an automatic dispatch) so I find those stories baffling and terrifying

 

[Mycrazyfarm24]

I hope my story/rooster is a rare case.. we are sparing him and butchering 5 other roosters tomorrow so I hope he stays being a good boy. Of course if he ever tries being aggressive again I'm sure we won't have a problem with butchering him either.

 

[McChooky]

An aggressive roosters dangerous. Any rooster that's been aggressive in the past is likely to be aggressive again. Good luck!