Got Flogged by A rooster tonight

[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!

 

[sy7up]

when I was little, gathering eggs for my Grandmother a red roo attached me and had me cornered. She heard my screams and rescued me.
The next weekend I went for a vist and gathered enough courage to go to the coop no red, asked my uncle where was red? and he said"Red went after your Grandma and there is no more Red "

 

[Farm_Maven]

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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.

 

[M.sue]

I've never used the technique but often wondered about the up-side down tactic.....thought it's effects would be similar as if it were done to a human....blood rushing downward, light headed, dizzy. Good to know.

 

[Beekissed]

Darlin.....I hate to burst your bubble......but hanging a chicken upside down is dangerous. It can kill them.

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.​

 

[al6517]

I agree that hanging birds upside down will not in the least harm nor even phase them. It's just another Ole wifes tales to add to the list.

 

[oshun55555]

lord have mercy, if hanging them upside down will kill them ... then i have been mighty lucky ... been hanging them upside down for 50 years and aint lost a one. I was watching a discovery channel documentary and watched people in a market overseas buying chickens and walking around the market and then walking them home carrying them upsidedown, look like those chickens were plenty alive to me.

 

[al6517]

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Yes it's true LOL upside down is fine. except the huggers think it is the most god awful treatment one could possibly imagine, and OMG what will the bird think of me then and will it need intensive therapy sessions afterwards so it will like me again. That sort of thought process is feeding the frenzy.

 

[BooBear]

Yal are so funny.

 

[al6517]

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That's how we Roll..........