Try what you've read about schooling your rooster and also you might work on your confidence level. Wear long pants and sturdy shoes, stride out like you mean it and don't give way when he is in front of you. Since he attacks from behind, you need to switch this scene....attack him from behind when he least expects it. Just like a rooster does. It's the only language they understand, really, and the only one they are going to recognize you as an authority.
It's your fear and hesitation that marks you as vulnerable, so eliminate those and then go on the offensive instead of the defensive and you shouldn't have any more problems. Every once in a while reinforce this teaching by lunging at him and stomping...make him HOP and run when he least expects he is in danger. Whoever runs is the loser. Since you ran, you lost. Never run again, never back down, keep going forward no matter what he does.
Soon you won't have to do that and you will have a rooster that is always looking over HIS shoulder for you instead of the other way around. It's not too late, if you just take a few minutes of your routine to tend to teaching him the rules of the coop. In the pecking order, you should always be at the top.
It's your fear and hesitation that marks you as vulnerable, so eliminate those and then go on the offensive instead of the defensive and you shouldn't have any more problems. Every once in a while reinforce this teaching by lunging at him and stomping...make him HOP and run when he least expects he is in danger. Whoever runs is the loser. Since you ran, you lost. Never run again, never back down, keep going forward no matter what he does.
Soon you won't have to do that and you will have a rooster that is always looking over HIS shoulder for you instead of the other way around. It's not too late, if you just take a few minutes of your routine to tend to teaching him the rules of the coop. In the pecking order, you should always be at the top.