Jmamachick
Hatching
- Apr 12, 2015
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Hi, i'm from Virginia and new to the chicken world. We started our chicken family this past March with 6 Buff Orpingtons and 6 Araucanas. We received them at a day old so the Buffs are 6 months and the Araucanas are just a week younger. The Buffs are very sweet chickens and we have one that loves to just hang with us and follow us around. The Araucanas were not very friendly as chicks, they hated to be picked up or touched. We didn't do a lot of picking them up as they would run away from us. They are more friendly now with us at 6 months old then when they were just days old. Our of all our chickens 1 of the Araucanas grew up to be Fred the Rooster. He's beautiful. Bright maroon, yellow and gray colors. He has all the colors of all the chickens and is just a really pretty rooster. About 2 months ago (when he was about 4 months old) he started attacking me and my husband. I literally had a boxing match with him. I did check out Backyard Chickens site to get some information about Roosters. For the last 2 months we have been picking him up, walking around with him and then putting him down. Every single day we have some kind of interaction with him to try and help him realize that we are not the enemy. After a month of picking him up, he was very aggressive to my son and to me again that we started Plan B. Plan B was turning him upside down (as I read on this website) and letting him hang until he calmed down and then lifting him back up and walking with him for about 20 mins. I have been doing this for 3 weeks. Its still not working. He seems to be getting more aggressive and comes at me no matter where I am.
My next step is start spraying him with pepper spray everytime I come around him so he may get the hint and move away and not come near me.
Any suggestions would be great. I was also thinking about trading him in for Buff Orpington rooster (if a Buff rooster would be nicer to have around).
If it doesn't work out for Fred, he will be dinner!!!
thanks
Janet Franklin
My next step is start spraying him with pepper spray everytime I come around him so he may get the hint and move away and not come near me.
Any suggestions would be great. I was also thinking about trading him in for Buff Orpington rooster (if a Buff rooster would be nicer to have around).
If it doesn't work out for Fred, he will be dinner!!!
thanks
Janet Franklin