Got Flogged by A rooster tonight

[dantodd]

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You will still need to get rid of at least one of your other roosters. You can't let a child determine flock management practices. The only alternative to culling is getting many more hens.

Chickens are a great way to teach kids animal husbandry. Culling, by way of the stock pot or re-homing, is part of that education.

 

[al6517]

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You will still need to get rid of at least one of your other roosters. You can't let a child determine flock management practices. The only alternative to culling is getting many more hens.

Chickens are a great way to teach kids animal husbandry. Culling, by way of the stock pot or re-homing, is part of that education.

So very true............ children as we know become much more attached more so for a little girl, the last thing you want to do is to encourage an ideology of never being able to properly manage your flock through whatever means nessesary, and learning the way's of the chopping block is yet just another tool.

 

[crayon]

Yeah- I know we will have to have him for dinner at some point here. I guess I have to make some calls to find out where to get this done. Bummer he is so pretty!!

I did not mean to have this many roosters to hen ratio- I have lost about 6 pullets this year and one pullet that made it turned out to be a rooster. So..... I know I have way to many! I am tempted to go to a hen only flock in the spring... Not sure I love the attitude of roosters. My goal was to have a protector from predators- but this turning on humans will NOT DO!

 

[al6517]

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Perhaps you should visit or revisit some of the pages in this thread there is some very usefull info on turning a bad guy into a good guy. That is the purpose of this thread, to not have to rid yourself of a randy rooster but teach him who is boss, now if young kid's are involved you may have to rethink that strategy, kids trump roosters LOL.

 

[BooBear]

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Just to show you that you haven't ever seen a real chicken here you are, he is every bit as said, please be sure to take a good long look, and check out the itty bitty 3" spur's. Now I am very sure if this bird were to hit the back of your calf the words that would shortly be coming from your lip's would certainly be different from the love songs sung in your F00-Foo coop, and will resemble some very colorful medifores. These are what I raise and they are indeed very big solid non Hatchery Godzilla's.

This one is called the HULK for good reason, note the very small 3" calf cutters. One look into his eyes let's you know he ain't into cuddling and all that ooohy gooohy stuff, and he is one hell of a speciman.

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He is a good looking specimen. Sooo meaty..

(oops sorry I am slightly hungry)

But seriously I am enjoying reading this thread. I get tickled on the mention of foo foo bird. It sounds funny..

Ok back to trying to catch up on the thread.

 

[BooBear]

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The DH sounds like he needs a little lesson in doing his job as head rooster.................... I have a hard time respecting a Man who won't help his wife when she needs him to. and when her & their childs safety is invovled, Did the DH get caponized at one point.

 

[al6517]

A Foo-Foo Bird is a term real chicken owners use to describe a chicken that is pretty useless in a utlitarian sense. A F00-FOO bird lay's small egg's or colored egg's, normally has a goofy hairdo of some kind, is all fluff with feathers on their feet and no brains, hangs around the yard in a little dainty painted coop the size of a refridgerator box, and has a really whimskical girly name and normaly get's treats fresh cooked daily and served in the living room with soft music and candlight. Yeah that kinda bird is a foo-foo bird, we also like to feed Foo-Foo birds to our real chickens as scratch treats. I hope that clears up any questions as far as the definition LOL.

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

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I am curious here, Your daughter doesn't have a problem with him? So, who exactly is having the problem and needs to learn how to deal with them? Are they just intimidating or actually attacking..posturing is one thing, actually contact another. Remember, they can sense fear.
Good luck with the dilema, but if you get rid of the roo that you got for the kids, who ARE handling them and don't want to get rid of them, then I think somebody needs to be fair about this. I don't want your kids to get hurt,and 6 is pretty young, but 8 year olds can manage alot more.

 

[BooBear]

Well I am caught up. This is a most entertaining thread.

My introduction to chickens was in my pre-teens. I have always been an animal lover and was fascinated by a neighbors pretty game chickens. The neighbor had me pegged easy as he talked me into taking home what appeared to be a beautiful game rooster with a couple of hens. My folks were ok with this as they liked the idea of fresh eggs.

That rooster was free for a reason! It turned out that he was pyschotic, meaner n spite, and just ornery as all heck. My sisters n I had to use a heavy stick or piece of handy lumber to get into the coop to collect eggs. You did not dare go in without rubber boots! That crazy rooster had really long spurs and would just keep coming. You could knock him out, he would bounce up, and come for more! The only good thing I got from that group was a really cool game hen named Mrs. T that loved to be carried around and cuddled. She would come when I called her name for attention. Ofcourse, she never stayed in the coop but preferred roosting in the trees.

We had predators but none messed with pyscho rooster. Not the stray dogs, pet dogs, raccoons even gave him wide berth. Well mom wanted more laying hens and put an order in for some EEs. 2 of which turned out to be boys. Those poor boys were bullied something aweful by the pyscho rooster until they grew up. The EE boys grew to be big n beautiful. They were people friendly too. One day they got their revenge and that was the end of that old pyscho rooster! The flock back then had peace under those boys.

I got some property that made it easy to get back to having chickens and have started my own flock. I have dual purpose chickens for meat n eggs and some fancy "foo foo" chickens.

As far as correcting goes I use a combination of techniques based on the personality of the bird. Some are more sensitive and only need light correction, some fall into the middle, and some are just too hard headed for their own good. One thing I won't tolerate is a people aggressive bird. Now that I know what to do with the stinkers I have no problem butchering and processing them myself.

 

[galanie]

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Soft music and candlelight in the living room! Why didn't I think of that!