All I Can See Is A Rooster I Want To Kill!

[Chicken.Lytle]

If a rooster cannot learn about respect through simple persuasion , then a rooster can certainly learn about soup though immersion.

 

[patman75]

Mean roosters make the best soup.

Life is too short for mean roos, there is always a new young roos who could be great if given the chance.

 

[HHandbasket]

One of my dear BYC friends has a rooster that attacks my leg and flogs me everytime I come into her yard... but he's a sebright, so I don't pay him much mind. For such a little bitty fowl, though, he sure can slap ya silly & leave a red mark! Small though he is, however, he has a really loud, shrill crow and is a really gorgeous li'l bird. Farmer Lew likes to spar with him, and when we get a big place where we can have roosters, we'd sure love to have one just like him. I think if he were a large fowl chicken, he would be harder to take and would likely end up being soup, but because he's small and cute and not a "real" threat, he's just amusing. I can take a li'l sebright flogging from time to time. Ain't gonna hurt me. Besides, he's just doing his job and trying to keep me away from his hens (cuz I love his hens and am always going into "their" territory to check 'em out).

 

[donrae]

Sorry, gotta disagree. It's like folks letting their little dogs snap and bite, "they're little and it's cute, they can't hurt anything". Yeah, until someone bends over to pick something up off the ground and they get in on the face/eyes, or a child is involved. Mean roos die. I have plenty of nice roos, take great care of the girls, don't bother me. As stated, why waste time with a mean one?

 

[Sunny Side Up]

Quote:

Nooooooooo! My favorite Sebright roosters are pictures of them. We had one named Hors d'oeuvre who was a little menace. We didn't realize how much of a bother & strain he was until we gave him away, and noticed how happily & freely we could then walk through the yard.

 

[write2caroline]

So once the deed is done and he is dipped in hot water and defeathered, place the meat into a cassarole dish with a lot of onions, cream sherry, some sage......
cover and bake until that mean-ness is soft and tender!

Mean Rooster = Coca Vin
Voila - bon appetit!


Caroline

 

[Yazzo]

Hey, trust me, I know how insanely annoying roosters can be sometimes.

But you gotta try and get inside his head. He's not doing it maliciously or arrogantly. Dude's doing it because he sees you as a threat to him and his hens, or because he sees you as a rival. Most likely, he's scared of you, and sees you as a threat. Does he really deserve to die for that? Because he's trying to protect himself and the hens? You decide.
What makes me really mad is when roosters are aggressive towards the hens. Even then, as much as I want to kick their little smart-alec butts, they are roosters: they're going by instinct (although I may shake them up a bit if they're being really smart-alecy, then, off to the bachelor pad if they keep that up with the hens....). Not like they're evil or something......

 

[sourland]

"Trying to get inside his head" once it's been removed is an effective method of curing this behavior. Most other solutions are temporary at best. There are too many good flock roosters that are not human aggressive. It's an inherited trait. Gamefowl are generally not human aggressive because that trait has been stringently culled against.

 

[Chicken.Lytle]

As I see it, there are two kinds of roosters. There are roosters that learn to be second roo in the rooster hierarchy through gentle intimidation by the human (top roo). Then there are the hard cases who are suitable for uses outside my living space -- such as freezer camp, stew pot, or Craigslist.

 

[sherrybwc]

He'd be so much stew meat if he were mine.

I also just HAVE to say that the first thing I thought of when I read your thread title was the movie "Dune". Do I have a fellow sci-fi buff here???