First Time Raising a Roo-How Many Chances Does He Get?

He'd be a cull here. There's no excuse for attack to a child. It will only get worse when he gets spurs. I had someone intentionally provoke my cock, and he got a spur to the shin for it. Granted, it was the person's fault, and he's been warned not to agitate the cock, but he did it anyways. In that particular case I chose not to cull (though it will be time soon enough). I do need to get out there and trim back my cock's spurs. My cock takes his job very seriously, but he really doesn't mess with me unless one of the girls get too close then he scoots the girls away from me (I have several that like to crowd my feet).
 
Thanks for the advice everyone :) I really appreciate it! I needed to make sure I wasn't making an impulse decision by culling him. I needed to know that it would only get worse, so crockpot it is
 
Truth is, if he'll go after your daughter he'll go after anyone. And one person training a rooster to behave has never made sense to me - even if it works, it'll work when she's out there. He may learn to respect her but everyone else is fair game.

I had to face a hard situation here last year. I had a much beloved rooster, Scout. Oh, he was world famous for awhile. He was hatched under a broody, but after an injury we had to bring him in and hand raise him. Scout's full story: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/frostbitten-feet-the-adventures-of-scout

Despite his disability, he was a great rooster...handsome, strong, good provider, early alarm system for his girls, and he was always a little wary of me. Because of all the stuff I had to do to get him better, he pretty much avoided me. I'd walk out there bold as brass, and as I'd approach he'd simply and quietly move out of my way. Good rooster! He liked my husband just fine - he'd even come over to see what Ken was doing. The coop was pretty peaceful. I have two young grandkids who help with the chickens. In fact, Katie is so good that when we leave town she's totally in charge of the chickens. She started that when she was 8,and she's now 10. Our grandson (now 11) isn't big on the chickens but he can take care of them just as well as Katie does. We also have a sweet little granddaughter, 4 year old Kendra, who was born with Spina Bifida and she's been in her wheelchair since she was 9 months old. She can't do much out there, but oh, how she loves to be out there and see the chickens!! I vowed when I placed my first chick order that I wouldn't have a chicken out there I couldn't trust 100%. Not only did I want to avoid any injury to those amazing kids, I also knew that I never wanted them to be afraid to be outside because of the chickens.

I went out to do morning chores on June 4th. There was a piece of plastic stuck in the litter and I bent over to pick it up so the birds wouldn't peck at it. I didn't even see Scout coming! He attacked my hand so badly I still have the scars. He'd never done anything like that before and I didn't know if he would ever do it again. I was stunned. Was he startled by the combination of the rustling plastic and my hand? Had he been waiting for months for an opportunity to get me back for all I'd done to him? Was he simply getting mean? I didn't know, but he obviously had a thistle in his kilt. I did know that as of that moment I could never trust him with the kids. What if Katie moved faster than he wanted? What if he suddenly decided Kendra's wheelchair was a threat? So, by the afternoon of June 4th, Scout was on the shelf in the refrigerator.

Whether to work with a rooster or get rid of him is totally a personal decision. You know your situation and what you'll put up with better than I do. Depending on how many girls you got in your last chick order, it seems to me that 3 roosters could be pushing the hen/rooster ratio and could be inviting trouble when those male hormones get to raging and there aren't enough girls for that many boys. Competition is sure to set in, and they don't care what they take it out on. I talked to a lady recently who has a rooster who was just fine until she added a young roo. Seems the older one has now taken a dislike to the outside faucet. He attacks it over and over again. But she says he's such a good rooster and makes such beautiful chicks. Now, to me that rooster has a screw loose and I'm darned if I'd want to produce more chicks with loose screws, but she "loves Jasper to bits". So he stays, and continues to attack the faucet. Silly chickens!
 
@Blooie LOL about the faucet! Definitely has a screw loos like you said ;P *mental picture is hilarious!*

Also, you make some good points that I hadn't thought of. About the fact that he might be fine with us but see others as threats and attack them-definitely don't want that as we have neighbors/friends tend to our chickens while we're out of town on occasion. I hadn't thought about it that way.

As far as our flock number, I have 22 hens/pullets and 3 roosters. What is a good ratio?
 
So I shouldn't try and train/discipline him like some threads talk about? Thinking my daughter needs to establish herself as dominant leader in his eyes?

Yes, you can train him. But, you have to ask yourself....with one rooster already and only that many hens, why do you even want to keep these two extra? One is enough and they'll have the feathers worn off the backs of your hens if you keep them.

What he did was a natural reaction and I've even seen hens attempt the same thing when another hen was being picked up or handled and they squawked while being lifted. He just needs a little lesson in who is the predator and I can guarantee you that, if he were here, I could change his mind in a matter of seconds. You can too, but, again, you still have to ask why in the world you want that many roosters?
 
Yes, you can train him.  But, you have to ask yourself....with one rooster already and only that many hens, why do you even want to keep these two extra?  One is enough and they'll have the feathers worn off the backs of your hens if you keep them. 

What he did was a natural reaction and I've even seen hens attempt the same thing when another hen was being picked up or handled and they squawked while being lifted.  He just needs a little lesson in who is the predator and I can guarantee you that, if he were here, I could change his mind in a matter of seconds.  You can too, but, again, you still have to ask why in the world you want that many roosters? 


I guess I thought it was a good number of hens to roosters?
 
Also they are in a one acre pasture and I thought it might be too large an area for one rooster to be able to protect all the hens and still watch over the coop?
 
Yes, you can train him. But, you have to ask yourself....with one rooster already and only that many hens, why do you even want to keep these two extra? One is enough and they'll have the feathers worn off the backs of your hens if you keep them.

What he did was a natural reaction and I've even seen hens attempt the same thing when another hen was being picked up or handled and they squawked while being lifted. He just needs a little lesson in who is the predator and I can guarantee you that, if he were here, I could change his mind in a matter of seconds. You can too, but, again, you still have to ask why in the world you want that many roosters?
x2!! Bee is so right. One rooster is plenty for the flock you have.
 

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