Can you tame an agressive rooster?

[Ms~Silkie~Girl]

spray him a couple times with the hose ((on JET)) he'll get the idea

 

[seminolewind]

I'm a nut, I love roosters. I like the methods where me and the roo still have a relationship. Okay that's weird but that's me

 

[PeepsInc]

Grab him, & hold him so he's laying on 1 side. Then play with his comb for awhile. After a few minutes drop him on the ground. He'll avoid you like you are the king of the yard. Works with turkeys too.

 

[dianneS]

A lot of great responses. I can't cook this guy though, he's my husbands pet. He'll sit on my husbands arm or shoulder and eat from his hand.

Boots seem to set this rooster off, I think. I had this crazy pair of pink rubber boots that he would attack all the time. Now he attacks my plain blue ones too. The only time he flogs me though is when I go near or in the coop. I think this guys job is coop patrol, because he seems to be in there more often than the other rooster. If I collect eggs or check on a broody or her chicks, it gets this rooster really mad!

I had a rooster that I raised from an egg when I was a kid, and he loved me, thought I was his mom but hated my dad! He would flog my Dad all the time and flew in his face once and drew blood near his eye. My Dad grabbed him by the legs and dunked him head first in a bucket of water! It didn't work, the rooster was still aggressive toward Dad. So he gave my rooster away to some old man in town. I thought for sure that roo would flog the next owner, and end up in the stew pot, but he didn't, the two of them became best buddies and when the old man died his wife put a photo of my rooster in the casket with her dead husband!

I'll keep working on this guy, he's really pretty and makes beautiful babies with my hens!

 

[LisaFD]

I see this is a very old thread, but I tried the "Pick him up, stroke and sweet talk him" method when my rooster suddenly took a dislike to my shoes. It worked like a charm! I am very happy to nip this aggressive behavior in the bud. Next up, training him to stop bullying the girls when they roost.

 

[dianneS]

I removed my roos spurs and hypnotized them a few times and it worked like a charm! No more attacks!