I stopped after work to see some friends, (same friends who took in 6 of my rescue chicks) and they wanted me to see how beautiful the cockerel is now that he is really feathering in... so sure... well... I got my first flogging. "Boss" leapt up, got ahold of my finger and kicked the crap outta me! I'm scratched and have a few bruises forming...
my friend? stood there like! she couldn't believe that he could be "mean" he's only 6 months old, and very strong... he's gonna be a handful, and forget it when he develops spurs!
I knocked him back... he charged again, knocked him back again, and again he charged... I'm done with Boss.
We had a similar incident here. I had (note past tense) a beautiful Easter Egger Rooster, hatched this spring and his spurs weren't even fully in yet. He was big, gorgeous, and very good at his job. Problem is he kept attacking my 2 year old grandson. At first we were going to butcher him, then decided against it because he was so very good at fertilizing eggs. This last Sunday my husband and I were doing some upgrades in the hen house and while he was outside working on the roost, I was inside doing some draft stopping. I heard the *thunk* and then my husband calls me....had that sound of dread in his voice. That beautiful stubborn attacking rooster had attacked the wrong person at the wrong time. He attacked my husband while he had a 1" x 2" board in his hand. Hubby, without thinking, turned around and whacked him a good one. Needless to say there's now a nice rooster in the freezer. Good thing though, a friend has been hatching eggs from my chickens and I can get another rooster from her....hopefully just as pretty, not in such hurry to attack.
He may be trying to mate you guys and not actually flogging.I've got a little d'Anver roo like that. He attacks EVERYBODY. But then he's just begging to be petted and held and cuddled. Not to mention he's gorgeous. And no one can hardly even feel it when he attacks you, so we keep him around............for now. It's just too funny when he scares the living daylights out of my aunt though. She can run fast when there's an itty-bitty rooster.
No you won'tOh gosh, ya'll are scarin' me off a roosters! My babies of 7+ weeks are so sweet, but if they turn when older, I don't want to take a chance!
I'm such a newbie, I'm afraid I'm gonna say something so stupid, it'll end up here on this thread!
So many people think this. It's weird, isn't it?
We just posted the exact same thing at the exact same time!
