EEEEEEVILLLL RIR Rooster!

[Keenonf]

I have three EVIL RIR hens. When they where growing up they where always incredibly bold. I bought them as pullets and i frequently worried that maybe i had a roo in the bunch. Now there as mean as they could be. They frequently attack our small dogs and cats. I have gone into the coop only to be greeted by a ungodly squack. I can hold them but its pretty obvious they don't like it. I bought a few silkies but i know that the would I have to keep permanently separate. Nonetheless i'm selling them in a few weeks. But on a side note, there all excellent layers.

 

[flgardengirl]

OMG ya'll are scaring me lol. I recently got 3 RIR pullets and one is alot bigger than the others. It better be a girl LOL! I will be worried if she turns out to be an EEEEVIL RIR ROO !!!

 

[Bantimna]

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Soup time!

 

[Bantimna]

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Don't

Love them and show them that you don't care if they might be roos

 

[TurtleFeathers]

My roosters are puppy dogs with feathers. If they showed the slightest bit of aggression as youngsters, I just picked them up, turned them over on their backs and carried them around under my arm like a football for a while. After they stopped kicking and squirming, I'd wait a few minutes and then sit them down gently. If they came near me again, I'd repeat the whole process. Also, if they attempt to mate with a hen while I'm in their presence, I push him off her. They always give me the stink eye, but if I stand my ground, they'll just wander off and go about their business. I haven't had to face off with any of them in months, and in fact, they're actually quite pleasant to hang out with these days - so I guess what I did worked?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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He sees you as either a threat to or a rival for his ladies. You have to change his concept of you. Booting him will just engender his aggression--you are fighting him; he will fight back. He needs to view you like a tree or the wind or some other force of nature that is simply impossible to fight. He needs to see that his efforts to fight make no difference whatsoever. Watch him from hte corner of your eye, and when he acts like he is coming to fight you, reach out and grab him (both arms straight out so he cannot get to your face). You need to make sure his spurs are short and rounded. Okay, now that you have grabbed hold of him, get a good grip and carry him in either the football hold or cradled in your arms like a baby. It will be more work for a week or so, but carry him about as you do your chicken chores. Talk baby talk to him; ignore or prevent any bad behavior, but DO NOT react if he bites you or otherwise hurts you. As you are nearing hte end of your chicken chores, offer him a treat out of your hand, then walk to the pen or coop door and put him down right as you exit. If you need to, take a laundry basket out with you and upend it over him. After a while he will begin avoiding you (if he doesn't like the carrying) or start acting nice (if he does).

 

[kla37]

Turtlefeathers, I loved you idea for your roos! It sounds similar to puppy training, to show who is in charge. I am going to try that with my coming batch of chicks! Thanks for the tip!

 

[aveca]

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Beautiful rooster!
I think your right the production RIRs were not bred for disposition , they were bred for great eggs. and they sure lay tons of nice eggs, a freind and Im not kidding has 16 hens they collect every afternnon, for the last several weeks they have gathered 16 eggs, yesterday they got 17 eggs!! One was tiny and didnt really have a yolk but still it was a perfectly formed egg

We had a RIR rooster that would come all the way across the farm just to get you and he would go for the face and wouldnt back down, we lived right in the middle of the country club and he chased golf carts and sent grown men screaming like little girls, they didnt know weather to laugh or cry and were terrified of him.

finnaly caught him at night and he really ripped me up just getting him penned..my hands and arms looked like I was in an accident. you couldnt even feed him through the trap door he would be on you, He went after my husbands face and got him good, A freind of mine liked her own farm fresh chicken free roaming so he wound up in the stew pot..I just dont think a bird like that is worth breeding. And weve had lots of roosters of every kind and understand them, but that one we named nickademus (the devil), Worst manfighter we ever had.

 

[babyblue]

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Not just your opinion- I agree. I have two wonderful roosters, a Barred Rock and a Blue Orpington, both excellent protectors of their girls and neither one has ever shown aggression toward humans. I wont keep a flogging rooster around here. If he cant understand that I, the bringer of food and treats, is not a threat, then he is not of high enough intelligence to keep as a breeder, IMO.

100% agree with both of you. why keep and breed anything that after a few atempted attitude adjustments still wants to kill you?

 

[aveca]

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many a good book written by breeders says the same thing, cull the manfighters, not breeding shed protectiveness but the ones that will go far out of thier way to get you.

I carry a stick and it confuses the australorps rooster I just walk around like I have a cane and block him , it works like a charm. They are a little slower anyway . There was an interesting article in backhome I think the people in that article ahd buckets of soft stuffed animals all around the yard when the rooster came after one of them , they pelted him with stuffed toys, according to them he doesnt bother them anymore. Im not that good a shot so I just carry the stick, it completly confuses him when I set it right in front of him and move it back and forth blocking, he has pretty much given up.
This same rooster was kicked badly by one of our neighbor kids and had a fracture in upper thigh and is still recovering hes still lame. That kid is banned from my property. the rooster didnt really bother anyone befor that kid started coming over and one of our other neighbors said he was beating our dog with a stick too while it was tied up.