Cockerel rushing my wife

[cacknballs]

Yes you're right he always starts it and I react. I'm going to have to be brave...
I'll look into the spurs thing. His are easily 3 inches long and hooked. They're a formidable weapon!
Thanks for the advice.

catch him, pin him down, and saw his spurs off with a hacksaw. and take your time doing it.

i bet he never screws with you again.

if he does,

 

[cacknballs]

...So i pulled up my big girl pants and decided next time he came at me, i wasn't backing down. Some will condemn me for this, but i hit him flat across the chest with a rotten tree branch (2-3" diameter maybe) and it broke. But he never, ever came at me again. I still was always cautious of him, but he got the message.

tell anyone who condemns you for that to shut the front door and pound sand.

people like that are morons.

 

[cacknballs]

Thank you all for the great advice, I liked the article and it sounds like a good plan that would work. However, what do you do when the person in question is terrified of him now, only because of a couple lunges? Also, what should my 5 year old granddaughter do, carry a stick too?

let him get after your 5 yr old, then have her help you butcher him and eat him.

it will teach her invaluable lessons, and instill in her a priceless level of confidence.

 

[Fairview01]

let him get after your 5 yr old, then have her help you butcher him and eat him.

it will teach her invaluable lessons, and instill in her a priceless level of confidence.

a 5 year old is not mentally mature enough to process the cause and effect of what is going on. This IMO is tantamount to mental abuse of a child. Second it is not your child. If you were to do this you are obligated to ask for parental input on this plan and despite your opinion, abide by what the parents desires are without exception, unless you want to risk seeing her a lot less.

Bottom line in this world there are mean people , meqn chickens, horses etc for absolutely no good reason. They were born that way and they should not be allowed to further contribute to the gene pool.

To make this decision I would ask you to pull out a picture of your granddaughter and while looking at it ask yourself these 2 questions. Do I have enough money to pay a facial reconstructive surgeon to fix my granddaughters face and secondly can I find a surgeon who can equal gods perfect work. If you can answer yes to both of those questions keep the cockerel then. If one or both questions are answered NO, tomorrow morning, get dressed, eat breakfast and wring that suckers neck without your granddaughter in attendance. You have a choice, love your granddaughter more than the cockerel or not. I have 7 grandchildren. There would be no choice there for me to consider.

 

[cacknballs]

a 5 year old is not mentally mature enough to process the cause and effect of what is going on.

you don't know that. just because yours isn't doesn't mean others aren't.

mine was... she was fetching me beer out of the fridge at 9 months old, was folding laundry and doing housework by 5, and now grows food in her garden by herself and harvests her own meat.

This IMO is tantamount to mental abuse of a child.

HAHAHA!! teaching a kid about the dominion God gave her over the animals and how to harvest and process her own food is child abuse!!!

BWAHAHAHAHA!!! i can't believe you put that in writing.

Second it is not your child. If you were to do this you are obligated to ask for parental input on this plan and despite your opinion, abide by what the parents desires are without exception, unless you want to risk seeing her a lot less.

um hello..., he asked for advice and opinions, and i have no desire to see the kid.

not sure what world you live in, but teaching a child how to defend itself and harvest food falls under childcare. if someone trust you with their child's care you don't need permission for something like that.

would you need permission to take them out of a burning building or permission to show them how to pour a bowl of cereal too?

Bottom line in this world there are mean people , meqn chickens, horses etc for absolutely no good reason. They were born that way and they should not be allowed to further contribute to the gene pool.

agreed, that is why you need to smack them down, put them in their place, or get rid of them when they try to abuse you or your children. and it's imperative you teach children that at a young age.

To make this decision I would ask you to pull out a picture of your granddaughter and while looking at it ask yourself these 2 questions. Do I have enough money to pay a facial reconstructive surgeon to fix my granddaughters face and secondly can I find a surgeon who can equal gods perfect work. If you can answer yes to both of those questions keep the cockerel then. If one or both questions are answered NO, tomorrow morning, get dressed, eat breakfast and wring that suckers neck without your granddaughter in attendance. You have a choice, love your granddaughter more than the cockerel or not. I have 7 grandchildren. There would be no choice there for me to consider.

that's a little dramatic.

 

[jvls1942]

I had a rooster and a turkey at the same time who loved attacking my wife and me..
we carried a squirt bottle full of water . whenever they got near, or we got near to them, gave them a good dose of water.
after a while all we had to do was hook the handle of the bottle in our pants pocket and just the sight of it held them at bay.
eventually the rooster made a good pot of soup. I sold the turkey to a man who didn't care if it was mean.
in forty years of chickens these were the only two mean birds we ever had..
BTW, neither of them were hatched here and raised by us.

.......jiminwisc......

 

[brucifer]

I had a rooster and a turkey at the same time who loved attacking my wife and me..
we carried a squirt bottle full of water . whenever they got near, or we got near to them, gave them a good dose of water.
after a while all we had to do was hook the handle of the bottle in our pants pocket and just the sight of it held them at bay.
eventually the rooster made a good pot of soup. I sold the turkey to a man who didn't care if it was mean.
in forty years of chickens these were the only two mean birds we ever had..
BTW, neither of them were hatched here and raised by us.

.......jiminwisc......

Mr. Squirt Bottle works great for training dogs. It's a fantastic method. However, here in the hot Georgia sun, my birds would relish the opportunity to get a cool squirt of water.