Has anyone ever actually succeeded in retraining an aggressive rooster?

[OlyChickenGuy]

Hi guys. I haven't read any more comments ( no time ), but I made some videos on how I go about catching my chickens:

The second one has how I use the hockey stick, too. No news on my laptop yet. I hope to be able to sit down and read / write sometime soon!

 

[appps]

Thanks for that Ky, that's what we were doing wrong, just moving to fast and trying to corner him by moving quickly to cut of his path if he went the wrong way. We just ended up with a coop of nervous chooks by the end.
Hubby tried real slow and we caught him without scaring all the others in the process.

Sad news though. May not be able to finish trying to train him. Have had a noise complaint from a neighbor I think. Was a business card from the local council guy in our mailbox when we got home. We are smack dab in the middle of town so not really rooster friendly area, guess we should have known it was only a matter of time.

 

[soler]

Thanks for that Ky, that's what we were doing wrong, just moving to fast and trying to corner him by moving quickly to cut of his path if he went the wrong way. We just ended up with a coop of nervous chooks by the end.
Hubby tried real slow and we caught him without scaring all the others in the process.

Sad news though. May not be able to finish trying to train him. Have had a noise complaint from a neighbor I think. Was a business card from the local council guy in our mailbox when we got home. We are smack dab in the middle of town so not really rooster friendly area, guess we should have known it was only a matter of time.

if you are allowed to have roosters, you can still keep him. You might want to catch up with the neighbor though and ply them with eggs or agree to keep the chickens locked up until 8 am or something along those lines.

I am going through this right now in fact.........i am allowed roosters by law so i am not giving them up. I am going to try and see if i can make some changes to accomodate the neighbor but not to the point of getting rid of the roosters.

 

[appps]

Just thought I'd update.

Complaint turned out to be about all the chooks not the rooster crowing. Inspector wasn't bothered by anything we had, we just need to put a little divider in to keep them out of the last meter of their run.

As for mister Ed he seems to have mellowed. We haven't held him since he and my daughter had their run in because I had house guests visiting from out of state and we just didn't have a chance (sooo tired lol)

However he hasn't shown any aggression since. I actually said to hubby it's kind of weird but I think he is actually the friendliest chook. I walk out the door and he is the first to come running over. That made me a little nervous at first but he hasn't done anything so I'm starting to relax when he runs to me lol

My youngest who he had a real problem with was out in the garden with me just then and other than coming down to see what we were doing he ignored her totally. Big change from trying to attack her through the wire fence.

I'm not dropping my guard yet but its promising.

 

[azygous]

That's terrific news! Sometimes chickens forget all about their bad habit when you remove the stimulation. By having other matters to focus your attention on, Ed probably forgot why he was angry with you and your daughter.

Keep on being mellow when around him, slow precise movements, etc. But it's coming into spring, and roosters are typically unpredictable during this time, especially teeners like Ed.

 

[appps]

Actually I'm on the other side of the world so for us its actually coming into autumn

I've been wondering if it was a puberty hormone thing because he has also become more gentle with the hens. He used to be quite vicious in his determination to mount one. That has gone too. He actually seems to even take no for an answer sometimes too and just leaves them alone.

 

[azygous]

Stupid me! I knew you were down in Oz and I just forgot there for a moment. So that would tend to explain his burst of cantankerousness. Now that he's surged his way through spring and summer, he's probably ready for his hormones to settle down. I'd say you're probably in the clear on this problem if he goes into winter as a mellow roo. I'd bet he stays that way from then on.

 

[appps]

I soooo hope you are right . He seems to have worked everyone's place out. Hubby he keeps a safe grab free zone around lol. Me he runs to whenever I go outside but when I open the coop in the morning will just stand there until I take one more step back before he will come out the door.

Now we just need to make sure he has also lost interest in the kids.

 

[scratch'n'peck]

That's all great news. When rooster questions have come up lately, I have provided a link to this thread. This may give others struggling with rude roosters hope as well.

 

[pish]

well now I have hope