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Roosters are just about impossible to give away anywhere. Especially an incorrigible one. There is absolutely nothing wrong with processing extra roosters, if they are killed quickly and humanely. Personally, I prefer to process my own birds. I know that they have lived a good life here, and then they have a very bad moment where they don't even know what's happening. It's over in seconds. If I give them away, I have no idea how they're going to be treated. Will they get regular food and water? Will they be cooped up at night to protect them from predators? Are there rotten neighbors that would torment them through a fence? Will they get to free range like they did at home? Nope. I'd rather know that they have not suffered.
 
I have a leghorn rooster (his name is Foghorn Leghorn, by the way) and he is mean as the devil! I have many scars to prove it. That is him in my avatar, look at him glaring at me! He is 4 yrs old and I swear he gets meaner every year. He is very good at protecting his hens, have not lost any to eagles or other critters yet. I know we should send him to freezer camp but I am such a bleeding heart tree hugger that I cannot think of eating my pets. I just use a big leaf rake as protection when I go in their yard. I will say, a full grown rooster hurts like heck if he flogs you!
 
bobbi-j said:
Roosters are just about impossible to give away anywhere. Especially an incorrigible one. There is absolutely nothing wrong with processing extra roosters, if they are killed quickly and humanely. Personally, I prefer to process my own birds. I know that they have lived a good life here, and then they have a very bad moment where they don't even know what's happening. It's over in seconds. If I give them away, I have no idea how they're going to be treated. Will they get regular food and water? Will they be cooped up at night to protect them from predators? Are there rotten neighbors that would torment them through a fence? Will they get to free range like they did at home? Nope. I'd rather know that they have not suffered.
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I actually agree with you, but I picked up that he wasn't wanting to kill his roosters. Not everyone can go there. That's all. And sometimes you can give a rooster away.
 
ToniTalley said:
I have a leghorn rooster (his name is Foghorn Leghorn, by the way) and he is mean as the devil! I have many scars to prove it. That is him in my avatar, look at him glaring at me! He is 4 yrs old and I swear he gets meaner every year. He is very good at protecting his hens, have not lost any to eagles or other critters yet. I know we should send him to freezer camp but I am such a bleeding heart tree hugger that I cannot think of eating my pets. I just use a big leaf rake as protection when I go in their yard. I will say, a full grown rooster hurts like heck if he flogs you!
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Oh my goodness. I had a big rooster that bloodied me on a regular basis. I used a plastic snow shovel to keep myself safe around him! We be sisters!
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I had 9 Leghorn, and leghorn cross roosters. 8 of them were people aggressive, one wasn't. We kept him for about a year and a half as our only rooster. He was great with the ladies and never came after people. He never pecked when we did need to catch him. The problem going forward was we didn't want to breed him because he was a mix (he had a couple black feathers) and he was EXTREMELY aggressive to other roosters. He nearly starved my Avatar by badgering him into hiding in the coop all the time because he was too slow to get away from him. I have six criteria I use when considering which cockerels to keep.
  1. A breed I want to continue: since I am breeding I want to keep as few roosters as possible.
  2. Not human aggressive: one bite, with blood, or flogging earns a rooster a spot on the cull list.
  3. Gentle with hens: I give any prospective keepers a change to be schooled in manners by my oldest hens. if they are too rough or mean to the hens, they get cull listed.
  4. Good with chicks: I run my chicks with the flock. If a rooster is aggressive with chicks, this is not good.
  5. Tolerant of other roosters: This does not mean that sparring can't happen. It almost always happens between roosters when they are trying to figure out the pecking order. What I don't want is relentless chasing, beating their opponent up when they are down, or trying to kill another rooster. For example, I have a bachelor pad for the roosters I'm not using for breeding or running with the main flock for protection or are awaiting their trip to freezer camp. Initially, it was a disaster. There were several roosters that were relentlessly bulling the ones lower on the totem pole. Slowly, I weeded out the bullies and I was down to three older cockerels in the bachelor pad who are about 10 months old. This week. I took five 5 month old cockerels (who are on the cull list) that had been running with the main flock since they were hatched and were starting to cause problems with flock stability into the bachelor pad. The older roosters sparred with them until they submitted (without drawing blood). After that, they only gave pecks to make the younger cockerels respect their space. An hour after introduction, they were all eating together. Later that afternoon, the 5 cockerels started fighting among themselves. At times, viciously. The older cockerels would break them up if it got too bad and prevented prolonged, relentless chases around the pen. The next day, only the two most aggressive 5 month old's were blooded and they did it to each other. After the first day, there hasn't been any fighting.
  6. Conforms to breed standards: Self explanatory.
Best of luck with your selection! In short, I suggest you start with the biggest bully and work your way down.
 
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These guys are QUITE mean, they fight on and off all day. They are all good to the hens, but mean as heck to each other and any person that gets near em. They puff out there neck feathers and go straight to spurring.

It's not that I have a problem with doing them in, but I have 7 kids (5 of which are girls) and they would freak out if they saw me heading down there with an ax.

My wife is of the opinion that all animal life has value and ahouldn't be killed for no reason.

I don't think that if this could be carried on just thru breeding that i'd want to give em away.

I don't want to kill em if there is a high possibility that they will come out of it. I think it would be nice if I could keep at least 1 to breed, (assuming they grow out of this behavior).

The biggest problem is when my kids go to the coop, the older 5, from 6 to 14, they act aggresive towards em. It's funny they run like their lives depend on it from the 2 and 3 year olds, and once they get caught let those 2 pick em up and carry em around.
 
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