Got Flogged by A rooster tonight

[al6517]

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You do realize the house chicken huggers can report you for such outlandish and cruel thinking LOL. you know to each is own just not my own.

 

[Beekissed]

Awwwwwww.......I'm tellin'!!!!!!

 

[al6517]

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[terrilhb]

 

[LiLRedCV]

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Well, I might've punted this little guy (approx 8wks old of aggression already), but the coop/run was not conducive to that maneuver. I had to get on my hands and knees to access the chicks in this run and was reaching in for one when he came after me, so I pretty much crawled all the way into the run, cornered him, and then got him pinned down before I picked him up to hang him upside down. He fought for awhile and then gave up and just hung there. When I went to put him upright, he started struggling, so I hung him upside down again. When I put him upright the second time, he was much calmer. I let him go back into the coop/run then and he ran as far as he could get from me. Plan on doing the same exact thing with him again tomorrow... and the day after... and the day after that... as long as he keeps his attitude with me. I'm even going to let my 8yr old do it to him so that this little guy gets the hint he's not the one in control.

If this daily routine doesn't work? I'll find someone to put him into freezer camp - mine or theirs.

My Iowa Blue rooster tried to flog me once, but I caught him out of the corner of my eye before he managed it. Scared the feathers off him when I swung around at him, arms flung out, asking him if he wanted a piece of me in a loud, aggressive gangsta-style voice. He tripped all over himself to get away from me then. From that point on, when I go check on the laying flock in the evenings, I make it a point of going in the coop (which I can stand up in) and picking him up off the roost. He fusses a bit, but gives up mere seconds later with a resigned sigh. He gives me a relatively wide berth when he's out in the yard with his girls!

Darlin.....I hate to burst your bubble......but hanging a chicken upside down is dangerous. It can kill them. The reason they quit fighting while upside down is because they are suffocating. Try pinning him to the ground til he submits, like a hen would for him. Hold in a squat until he stops struggling. Then hold for a minute or so until he relaxes.

I'm sure you meant no offense or disrespect, but don't call me "Darlin". (yes, I know there's a song out there by the same tune!) To me, that's very rude and condescending and just reminds me of a drunk perverted

in a bar who's trying to grope all the women, all the while believing he's the next look-alike hottie movie star and we'd all be fools not to want to jump into bed with him.

As other's before me have pointed out, if all it took was hanging them upside down to do the job? It'd sure be a heck of a lot less messier than slitting their throats and would be done more often!

 

[Farm_Maven]

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Darlin, I hate to burst your bubble.....we've been carrying birds upside down for 4-5 generations of keeping chickens and not a one has died from it yet. And we have large volumes, not little bitty flocks of 3-5 hens. You've been misinformed. If you hang anything upside down for a very long time it will eventually die, of course. Just carrying a bird, hanging a bird, dunking a bird in the upside down position will not do permanent damage of any kind.

If you've had a bird die from that position it is likely the bird had some organ defect or illness in the first place because, if it were that simple to kill a chicken by hanging it upside down, people would just hang all their birds up until they died without going through the mess of killing them properly.

Heck, I've hung birds upside down in preparation of killing them, took my time preparing and getting things arranged, tried the pithing method, waited to see if the birds would actually die from it, found they wouldn't~they actually lifted their heads and stared at me afterwards, fiddled around with other preparations and what not and THEN killed the birds, who still managed to flap and fight their way into the next world. Chickens are not so fragile, folks. If yours are, you need a different type of genetics in your flocks.

I have not had a chicken die from holding it upside down(I've never HAD to hold one upside down). Got THAT information on the forum here on byc(heard it many times, in many threads). One person says upside down is fine, another says it's dangerous and can kill your chicken, SHEESH, who to believe, what info to pass on to others? I don't know, conflicting information here, so i am not ever gonna pass any more info, tips, nuthin. I'm outta this one.

 

[Beekissed]

Here's a handy tip...first, it really helps if you've been raising chickens for longer than a season or two. If you've been raising chickens as long as some of the old timers on here they won't give you advice based on something they've read, only on what they have observed over years of caring for large flocks.

Second, if you are going to call someone Darlin', you might want to have the kind of wisdom that comes only from first hand experience and not something you've read before you use that tone in your advice.

 

[Farm_Maven]

I am a southern girl, everyone is darlin, hun, or sumpin to that effect. Not to be condescending, it's just our way. And no, I'm not new to chickens(altho I had learned more, a person can always learn more). And yes, I had checked other resources about the hanging chickens upside down some time ago during another such discussion with someone in the past, but it seems like passing along information here gets you slammed, no matter what you say, because someone always has different opinions on things.

Here is a Q and A from MyPetChicken...that I had found at the previously mentioned occasion about hanging chickens upside down............

Q: Someone told me to hold my rooster upside down by the feet to calm him down--is that a good idea?
A: No. That's a terrible idea.

Birds' respiratory systems are completely different from ours, so holding your rooster upside down can cause him real problems. For example, a bird's lungs are right next to the spine and upper ribcage, so it is hard for a bird that is upside down to breathe, since the weight of all his organs will be pressing on his lungs and some of his air sacs. Normally, he will breathe via changes in pressure in the air sacs. So... when the pressure changes "unnaturally," it can make it difficult for him to compensate. Chicken's lungs can't expand like ours do, either.

Being hung upside down is pretty uncomfortable for humans, but we breathe by using a muscle called the diaphragm, which is a dome shaped muscle between the chest and the abdomen. Birds don't have a diaphragm--they have air sacs, and breathe by changes in pressure in their air sacs. Some of the air sacs even extend into their bones (pneumatic bones), and the sacs act as a bellows to ventilate the lungs. They include cervical sacs, interclavicular sac, humeral sacs (these are parts of the interclavicular sac that extend into the bones of the humeris), thoracic sacs (anterior and posterior), abdominal sacs and so forth.

The reason holding a rooster upside down to "calm" him works is that he can't breathe properly. Birds have been known to die this way. If you have an aggressive rooster, we recommend you try the method listed in the related questions below for addressing that aggression.

This is not the only one I had found, but it explains it the way most other resources do, and I see no need to repeat.

 

[BooBear]

Mine go upside down when I am walking them to the killing cone. It is easier to insert them that way.

 

[centrarchid]

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Intent of poster was to be condescending that is part of established pattern makeing use of endearment terms innappropriate when readership is of a varied background.