Granny's gone and done it again

I have a Bielefelder rooster that I hand raised because he had splayed legs as a chick. His name is Rufus and he follows me around when I'm doing chores. If any of the other roosters get too close he makes them back off.
The first time we had chickens we had a Rhode Island Red rooster and several hens. The rooster attacked me every time I went in the run. The last time he did it I hit him under his beak with an empty gallon size can, flipped him over on his back hard enough it knocked the wind out of him! He never attacked me again.
Love it! I have a big old boy that is half Fayoumi, half who knows what who is all attitude. Great with the girls but has never been human friendly and even managed to spur me once when I made the mistake of turning my back on him. One day I had caught him to trim those spurs and while holding him by his ankles he reached over and locked down on the skin on my thigh. I was wearing shorts at the time and desperately trying to get him to let loose. He wouldn't. Just bit down harder breaking the skin and twisting his head. DH heard me yelling and came to my rescue giving him a hard punch that must have got the message across because he let go. From that moment on it was open warfare. I had an empty milk jug I had used to fill a water holder one day and he took a run at me. I threw the empty milk jug as hard as I could and bounced it off his head. Got the milk jug and proceeded to chase him around the run and coop bouncing that milk jug off of whatever part of his body I could aim at and hit. He finally got the message. Every time I enter the coop to this day he lets out a squawk and heads for the farthest corner away from me. Guess you could say that as long as there are empty milk jugs around, we have an uneasy truce at the moment.

80 degrees here guys. I'm lovin it!
 
That's interesting! One day I squeezed a plastic water jug, and our roo ran his girls in the the coop, and made a terrible noise! I couldn't help, but laugh! They don't seem fazed by it now when I do it. Our roo is a good roo though, and is not aggressive with us or his hens! He only gets territorial with our roos trying to take over.
 

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