Do Roos just not like some people?

[elizabethbinary]

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NO HE IS NOT EXAGERRATING!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've been accused of the same thing. My EE rooster I raised for and day one, hated me even though I was the one who fed, water and gave treats too. My BF had no problem with him. Even told me that I was over dramatic about him, until I was out in the run and he saw him run from 100ft and sneak up on me and spur me in the back of my bare legs, he hit me so hard he left bruises, needless to say I chased him with a broom handle (I know not good but was mad and hated that bird) he of coarse won, I tired out and had the BF do him in. (bullet to the head doesn't always work the first time it takes like 3) We thought it was going to be swift kill no it wasn't. It was horrible even for me.

Oh come on, my little rooster? My cute little spangled hamburg rooster? Attacking a brutish Nordic-built man as tall as a six foot tree? Whereas little ol' five foot tall me with my, y'know, really really scary flower-print tops gets to carry Mr. Rooster all around the house tucked under her arm and he just leans in and hopes I scratch his neck. Pffffttttt my husband, he exaggerates! My rooster could never do ANYTHING wrong. My husband, he's the one who lies. Po' widdle fwuffy wooster. It never dun anythin'. It just wanted some hens, maybe some oats and a couple of corn cobs. And here comes my husband being all boofy and hatin' roosters...

Hahaha. No really, I do think the rooster probably does hate him. For some reason ALL my birdies just adore me like I'm the greatest thing in the world. I've had hens for a whole week hop into my lap before. I've got some strange bird voo-doo... it took me about 3 days, but I got the rooster under my spell too. Husband can't figure it out. I've had wild peacocks eat from my hand.

 

[cybercat]

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This is a common problem when the rooster takes you on as a mate. You can not baby a rooster then expect it not to go after the compition. Your husband is the compition as far as your rooster is concerned. Chickens might be domesticated but they still have thier instincts. Your husband need to come to terms with the rooster and you should stop holding him and hand feeding him so much. Read gritstars rooster reform page have hubby do the steps.

 

[elizabethbinary]

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This is a common problem when the rooster takes you on as a mate. You can not baby a rooster then expect it not to go after the compition. Your husband is the compition as far as your rooster is concerned. Chickens might be domesticated but they still have thier instincts. Your husband need to come to terms with the rooster and you should stop holding him and hand feeding him so much. Read gritstars rooster reform page have hubby do the steps.

I don't hold him much or handfeed him much or baby him at all. I just take him from the pen to the garage and back because he needs to be locked up at night so he doesn't crow too early for the neighbours. So I handle him maybe.. 10 minutes a day? I scratch his neck maybe one out of 5 times I walk him to his cage, which is what he leans in for. Other than that, I don't handle him at all.

My husband WAS the one putting him away until he told me he was convinced it hated him. hahaha.

 

[Desert Rooster]

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[Dogfish]

When my rooster gets aggressive I corner him, pick him up and hold him by the feet while I do chores around the other birds for about 5-10 minutes. When I release him, it is in a mud puddle. The periods between aggressive issues gets longer and longer each time. It has been a good month or more since the last altercation.

 

[Cass]

When I was a child, my uncle had a rooster that was mean, mean, mean....to everyone except HIM....we begged him to kill the darn thing, but he wouldn't do it, said the rooster protected the chickens....OOOohh K...except no one could collect the eggs in the coop if the rooster saw them coming down the driveway to do so....cuz the rooster would run them off. I wish I had known the broom trick back then, cuz I would have "swept him off his feet", literally. I think I still have a scar on my head from that darn thing. So, yes, roosters can love some people and hate others. Even ALL others, except the one with the hatchet.

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

Yes, some people are just not like by birds.



My roosters - all of them - adore me. Some I baby, some I just handle alot and some I never have to touch but they love me anyway.


I have an Orp/EE cross roo - Marilyn - raised in the house alone for the first 4 weeks of life and then had two cockerel companions until recently (Mar-mar is over a year, hatched Sept. 2009). Every morning, Marilyn dances for me - I kneel down and he dances around me and then back in front of me for a hug, during the day when I go into the horse pasture to visit him - he finds me treats. He is good with my DH - but does not dance for him or find him treats but does not attack him, he will walk and talk with DH.


Two days ago we gave Marilyn some girls

I was a nervous wreck for two days before - wondering what Mar-mar would do. Would he attack them, breed them ragged - would they attack him?

Poor Mar-mar is not sure what to do with actual hens, I have yet to see him be "manly" with them, but he does dance for them, and call them for treats. He follows them around and talks all sweet to them - but when he sees me enter the pasture, he runs for me

I also have a little bantam RIR - Woodstock. He loves to sit in my lap or on my leg, be petted like a cat/dog and will fall asleep while being held. He is a March 2009 hatch rooster.





BUT when I was a very young child - we had a terrible rooster who hated me. I remember hiding in the doorway of the house because he was loose in the yard and would attack me on sight. My mom, of course had no trouble with him and would tell me "you need to be tougher. Don't be such a sissy girl, just be tough." The bird was almost as big as I was

or at least seemed that way. One day, helping my mom catch a hen - after she had promised the roo was out of the hen house - he attacked me while I was kneeling down and got me pretty good. Mom said, ok we will rehome him. Went to a family with twin boys who were know to be tough. The next day, I am not kidding you, the family returned the roo. They drove up, the twins hopped out, untied the trunk, pulled out a garbage can and released the roo back into the yard. FINALLY my mom believed me that he was mean, we ended up eating him.