Help!!! Agressive Roo...big Daddy...DREW BLOOD PIC. ON 3RD PAGE

[MaggieRae]

Oh, and here is Gritsar's page.
It's very good, as well.


https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=4810

 

[Beekissed]

I was wondering what you do when he does this to you? Do you dance away or try to evade him or stand your ground? Do you advance towards him or back away?

If he doesn't do this to hubby but does it just for you, it may be something in your body language that is fearful or submissive in some way?

I know it's hard to stand there when a roo is charging or jumping towards you but, unless you want to cook him into a good roo, you'll have to bite the bullet and be the alpha roo.

 

[RAREROO]

OK no, not Big Daddy, he that good looking boy that we were take about a while back that I would paint a picture of him, and sorry, but I haven't worked on it anymore but I still plan to when I get time, I still have his pic saved on my computer.
I had a BO roo that was really aggressive and I broke him from it by not pinning him down and ruffing him up a little. Don't kick at him or fight him the way another rooster would, that just stimulates his natural instinct to fight back, grab him, pin him down, kinda shake him up a little and teach him who's boss. If hes jumging up and flogging you, you may want to try tieing somekind of weights to one of his legs, but tie it close enough where he won't get hung up on the roost.

 

[2txmedics]

lol, Hey RareRoo...Yes, its Big Daddy...and no he is not going into a pot of warm soup...he is GORGEOUS!!!! To pretty to do that to him, or is that HANDSOME...he is BOTH...

and its only me, no I dont back off from him.....he does that and I turn around and try walking up to him at first, talking to him, that didnt work...so then I had to walk in there with a small childs rake...someone said to WHOMP him good...well tried that, he would come up and I would turn on him and start with:

"you want some of this, come big daddy" and go after him and just whomp him a bit...well that didnt work...so now its CESARS WAY....lol like I do with the dogs...thats the next step...I dont go in with fear just watch my back...

BIG DADDY

 

[speckledhen]

Well, golly, he's way too handsome to be such a butt-head! Sorry you're going through this. I'm having an issue with my flock rooster, just me and no one else-didn't even start till a couple months ago and Dutch is a year and a half old. They get something in their little brains and won't let it go.

 

[PortageGirl]

Wow, he really is a beautiful roo, but from what I've seen and been told by other older and wiser chicken keepers, leghorns quite often are agressive, and I'd guess trying to find a 'nice' one which is as pretty as that would take some real looking.

It sounds like you aren't showing fear or acting like you're worried, so I don't know what else to say.

If you can deal with him for now while you keep looking for a calmer bird I guess that's what I do. He may relax with you before you find a suitable sub. Still I wouldn't like being stalked in my own chicken yard.

I hope you find the key to his behaviour soon.

 

[2txmedics]

I kept him...got rid of 6 others!!!! He use to be calm and nice..didnt bother anyone...so he was the one I kept...lol

so I will try CESAR MILAN'S WAY....keep you all posted...

and yes, thank you...he is GORGEOUS...maybe he knows it!!!!

 

[MommaChickRN]

I take a water hose that has a spray nozzle on it with me wherever I go in the yard when my rooster is loose. He doesn't mess with me.

 

[Margot]

I also have a "killer roo". He is a listtle over 2 years old and the beginning of this summer started acting agressive...but only to me. No my hubby...not the dogs, cats. In fact, he is low man on the totem pole. Even the young bantie roos take him to task and he runs rather than fights.

He has drawn blood many times on my shins..the last ime was quite bad, if I could have caught him, I'd have killed him with my bare hands! He was kept in a coop with 3 hens and 2 silkie roos. I decided to re-organize and put all my hens together in 1 coop and the roos in another.

Do you think that taking him away from hens will calm him down a bit? I am going to try all the picking up and holding. I have made mistakes such as kicking at him to move him away...which just seems to make him more aggressive. I had to have a "chicken stick" with me at all times.

Margot

 

[they'reHISchickens]

I don't use a stick to *remind* my roo. I go after him and try to swat his head with my hand. My arms are longer than his feet! I think just the fact that i am approaching and moving after him intimidates him. And I have found he really can't get to me if I am determined to get him first.
Of course, the time I cornered him, grabbed him up under my arm and almost wrung his little neck for 10 minutes ( gently of course!) didn't hurt either.
He bit me last night as I was examining the girls on the roost next to him. A quick hand around his neck and he quieted down very nicely, thank you.
I do make it a point to never let him think he wins if he tries to blindside me. A challenge means I have to win. I'd make soup if he wasn't such a nice specimen and a very good flock guardian, so my alternative is to take the time to establish Head Roo status.

Question: Is it a difference psychologically to the rooster whether there is eye contact when we assert dominance? Roosters fight with their feet so if we kick, does that mean fighting to them; as opposed to being on top of them in a dominant stance at their eye level or close to it?


(OMG> psychology and roosters in the same sentence??? )