GRRRR!!! Naughty, Naughty Rooster!!!

[rooster-red]

Hi Angie,

I'm new to the forum but since this is a problem I'm familiar with I thought I'd throw my two cents in.

I have 2 adult Roo's, and when my young nephew comes to visit my birds I always lock the 2 up in a holding pen, just for safety.

My nephew visits with the hens for a while and when he leaves I turn the Roo's loose.

This keeps everybody safe and still lets the kids experience the chickens.

Don't cook him, just lock him up when the child is present or rehome him.

Lee

 

[Kamus Brazil]

Outch! hope the baby is fine Angie.
Fry the rooster and everything will be ok.

 

[hisbride]

Gosh that had to be scary! I hope the scratches heal well.
We had a rooster we got from somewhere can't remember right now but man that fella was mean. At first he was mild. We had been letting the chickens out in the yard to roam but one day the rooster started chasing my kids. Then he started getting aggressive in his chase that the kids could not go out when he was out. We had him put in the fenced in area and had his wings trimmed but he managed to get out. My son was swinging one day and he had to keep swinging to keep moving or the rooster would have gotten him. One day my daughter went out to the van and low and behold the rooster cam running over. My daughter yelled at it and it flapped and jumped. We heard the rucous and shouted for her to kick that bird knowing if she ran he'd run after her, just until we could get to her. She never kicked and luckily we got to her in time. He was taken to the feed store that very day.

 

[yearofthedog]

Your poor little baby! That smarts!

I have a similar situation but with a favorite dog(in fact, I'm picking him up from animal control this morning). He's a jack russell terrier and though I'll fight for him to the end, he did bite my son and as much as it hurts, he is getting shipped off to my cousin in Arizona who doesn't have kids...and she's only an hour and half away and I can visit anytime I want!!!

Hope all is well with your baby and the roo!

 

[sweetmama65000]

You shouldn't be to mad at the rooster. He just might have thought the the baby was a thret. She could have run towards him too fast, you never know.

 

[Critter Crazy]

my son got attacked by our Ancona roo last year, and I didnt do anything about it the first time, cause he was just doing what roosters do. But it got to the point where my son couldnt come out side, cause the moment the roo heard him or saw him, he would come running to attack! That roo has so far been the ony bird we have dispatched and eaten, but boy did my son enjoy it!! he he he he!! I will not think twice about it now, if a roo gets nasty and attacks my son, on the grill they go! JMO!!

 

[JackieK318]

Well, I'm a veggie also, but in this instance (or if it happens again), rehome him. Roosters can do much worse than scratches to a baby. Regardless of what the new home's intentions are (food, mate, etc.), I'd get him gone. Spurs aren't the only pointy object on a chicken and I think he should be confined, even if he was just doing what was natural. I just would hate to see your baby permanently scarred or lose vision from this boy.

 

[chickbea]

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Good for you for not freaking out and scaring your daughter into being afraid of the chickens. Occasionally getting scuffed and scratched is part of being a farm girl - even a baby one! Too many parents get so worked up over incidents like this that they end up giving their kids life-long phobias about animals.
Hopefully it was just a one-off and you'll have no more troubles.

 

[Frozen Feathers]

Thanks Chickbea. She is a brave little girl. I swear she would walk up to bull and pet on it's nose. My good friends have a pair of Brown Swiss Oxen who weigh in at 3000lbs for the pair and she doesn't bat an eyelash near them. Their heads are bigger then her whole body!

Any way for the roo, I keep them separated, it's easy enough. I can catch him very easily and lock him in the coop when we go out to play. He's not happy about being locked up, but at least it is allowing him to keep his head for now...

 

[EboyDog]

Sounds like my 5 year old, as there are older calfing momma cows in the field next to the house, he's always wanting to take them clover and feed the girls and their calves; he's just completly ignores their size!!

Took him to the county fair last year and we were watching the draft horse pull, several pairs of draft horses were pulled up to the edge after thir pulls and my boy got on the edge and was petting their noses, completly freaked me out as he had never been around horse before much less these HUGE draft horses!!

Total innocense and the animal's size never fazed him at all.

But really, my roo's are gentle around him, but if they ever became aggresive towards him then there would be a one less rooster!