Hey, if they are bantams at least you will not loose your shoulder bird!
One of the others started jumping on my shoulder but she tries to get the plugs and studs out of my ears so I've had to stop her sitting up there now, I thought once she realised she couldn't eat them she would stop - but it just made her more determined and it got pretty painful! LOL, chickens eh?
Yes that's a salmon Faverolle cockerel. And they are generally very docile, sweet birds, but you never know how roosters will react to young children. With very small kids, it's always a different ballgame, they move very differently than adults, for one, and they don't know how to interpret animal body language. Also, any rooster can mistake a child's exuberance around their hens as a threat.
I wish I had better advice, but I don't think that having kids under 6 or 7 around large fowl roosters is advisable, though people do it successfully all the time. ...
