Got Flogged by A rooster tonight

[Beekissed]

What a hunka hunka burnin' love!!!!

He looks like a bull mastiff of the chicken world!

My roo's spurs are positioned differently than are yours, Al. Toby's spurs are more horizontal to his legs and stick straight towards the other leg with a slight curve....before I clipped them last time they did indeed measure 3 in. We taped them!

 

[al6517]

Hence the point of my whole thread, you don't take a chicken like this and just saunder on over, pick him up and hold him while marching around saying bad little boy bad !! hoping to hummiliate him. LOL I mean look at him, he's the one laughing at you. Shoot most women couldn't even pick this bird up let alone hold him still, so yeah my point is I have to deal with rooster tirades on a different scale than the naw-sayers do, and my way is the only way it will work.

Most folks just assumed from the opening post that these were just some run of mill cross bred scrawnee hatchery stock, so my technic was exccesive, think again this is a whole different deal.

 

[al6517]

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Yeah Bee they do angle backwards a bit which is good because if they weren't he'd clickedy clack when he walked. Luckily for me they just twist right off to small nubs in my hand so I do that once a year. He is the only one who has them like that some of the others spurs are more menacing.

 

[M.sue]

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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.

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Good Lord!!!!! That boy is a Sherman!!

OMG Sherman is right. He is ONE BIG, ROO!!! How many of these things do you have roaming around at once?

 

[M.sue]

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[Farm_Maven]

M.sue :

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Good Lord!!!!! That boy is a Sherman!!

OMG Sherman is right. He is ONE BIG, ROO!!! How many of these things do you have roaming around at once?​

Hopefully no more than one!......

 

[al6517]

I keep about 10 full grown LF Cornish roosters now in breeding pens and I have several that are keepers but they are only tweens. The hen's are also large and stout but very docile

 

[StormyMoon]

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Sooo soooo true! I have lots of roosters (too many right now), and every one of them knows I'm "THE BOSS!" From chickhood, they get BOTH "coddling" to let them know that good behavior has its rewards, and a firm hand in terms of acceptable behavior. It may be cute when the just-crowing, barely feathered, "look I'm a roo" cockerel fluffs his non-existent hackles at you, but THAT'S the time to assert your "boss lady attitude"! "Baby" or not, that cockerel gets pinned under an arm and carried around until he looses his bad attitude. I never act out of anger, I just act decisively the way I WANT TO ACT. In other words, that cockerel gets nothing for acting out but a show of disregard from me. He never gets the chance to start thinking there's even a possibility of taking on the two legged bosses. I'm consistent with this, yet lavish with kindness. I end up with roos that are "manly" roos but fully respectful of me. I can break up a dispute between two of them and pick up either combatant, and he will immediately go into "hold me" mode. Any behavior problems I have with my roos that warrant culling are concerning their treatment of other birds. I won't tolerate a roo that goes out of his way to pick fights (although I fully expect him to defend his place in the flock - yes, a normal, healthy rooster will fight on occasion), nor a roo that's overly aggressive with hens or chicks. Those make better dumplings than chickens, IMO. I know I'm probably jinxing myself by saying this, but I feel as though the way I raise my roos turns them into just what I want in my flock - good roosters that like people. Now the problem is going to be how to choose which ones to cull now that cooler weather is here ( I HATE plucking feathers while I'm sweaty!!!)

Thats what I am talking about. When I say I can grab you, touch you.....but dont grab me or flog me.
You just have to put your foot down and make sure they can see you as a leader.

Your so right

 

[StormyMoon]

Foghorn the Leghorn we recently rescued these 2 they were living in the city till their owners was reported.
He won't leave the ducks side and the duck wont leave his.
They are about 2 yrs old.

Chong - BR 1 yr old

This is my daughter holding Sebastian , he is still young but very large.

We handle them all the time and never had a problem.

 

[exop]

On the subject of chicken whacking, bird stupidity and bird attitudes, I have to say that not every chicken has the same IQ, and not every chicken breed or strain has the same average IQ.

My father had one aggressive and dumb as a rock hatchery Buff Orpington which responded to being waled on by one person, by becoming more energetically vicious to all people, even the chicken feeder. This bird had no hens to protect, just a lot of anger welling up from somewhere. Unusually dumb. Would try to bite (I mean attack bite) your hand and eat corn from it at the same time.

On the other hand, I have a 2 1/2 year old Crevecoeur rooster who has hated me furiously since reaching adulthood. He is a stalker, not at the top of the pecking order and may think he is a Buckeye, due to who he was raised with. A brooder baby from a hatching egg, not raised by a hen as I have been doing more recently. His whole adult life he has lurked in a second-string part of the chicken yard and rushed me on occasions when I am near him (< 30 feet) and my back is turned. He is lightweight and nervous, paces and threatens from a distance by picking up and repeatedly dropping small twigs. I'm honestly not sure of his natural body conformation because he always seems to be in threat stance, wings dropped forward, neck giraffed upward, watching me sideways. I ended up removing his spurs to make the inevitable sneak attacks inneffectual. This is a rooster who is terrified of me but who has spent his life valiantly attacking me anyway. He has had everything tried on him, one approach at a time, each one for a while.

-Ignore him and treat him like the other chickens, toss him food if I'm tossing food to others (default: this is what I've always done between attempts to straighten him out).
-Chase him either at a run or at a walk until he hides or lurks in a remote corner and ceases making belligerent gestures. Tried this one often. Strictly a temporary solution.
-Held him down and made him "submit", kneading his back and for good measure, "pecking" the side of his head with flicked finger tip. Also temporary.
-Carried under arm (this had so little effect he attacked immediately on being returned, dizzy, to ground level. No humiliation for Mr. Mission Discipline)
-Allowed him to attack and showed him that I'm totally impervious to it, reacting as if he is not there (easy enough w/o the spurs). This seemed to throw him for a loop, but not enough that he wouldn't try again the next time round.
-Biffed him rapidly on the side of the head with a dry weed stem every time he approached within attack range (lightweight stem - a fast flick produces a stinging impact but no serious effect). Confused, annoyed and intimidated him, but again, effect only temporary, even while carrying weapon.
-Kicking or self defense with foot (soft shoes - Crocs) only seems to get him worked up, as if he feels that you're finally engaging him in a decent mano a mano fight.
-Chased him and whacked him with a real stick - this only done once, when I was incensed and bleeding from a forehead spur puncture received from side on while crouching to get a better look at some hens. I was worried I may have done some real damage, he ran woozily into a bush then tottered and hid in the chicken house. After he recovered, no net effect.

Very occasionally he has to be caught and tended to, sometimes for prophylactic mite treatment, sometimes in the past to try putting him in different pens, sometimes to deal with medical issues as when he managed to partly snap one of his own spurs by unknown means and was running around with it bleeding and dangling. On these occasions it is clear that he is terrified of me but not so terrified that he also won't also try very hard to bite.

So basically, a campaign of intimidation alternating with indifference has resulted in him convinced that I am an indomitable, vicious monster too dangerous to simply leave alone.

Amazingly I have been making some headway recently after grabbing him, holding him and feeding him irresistable morsels of sweet tree ripe peach. He seems to be staying out of my way now when I'm in the chicken yard. Over the last couple weeks, he has become more and more comfortable with repeated offerings of peach treats through the fence, which he must take from my hand or watch a small hen pal eat instead. Prior to this there was no way in ** he would approach me calmly for food, fence or no fence. Who knows why peach would have more effect on him, I have been feeding him when he is hungry his entire life. But there does appear to be a change in attitude.