help!! my rooster keeps attacking people!!

[Shadrach]

I'm never sure I properly understand what's gone on in these rooster attacks other people but not me posts.
Do guests arrive and as soon as they get out of their car the rooster goes from minding his own business to a homicidal maniac? Or, is it more a case of you letting other people play/work with/do things with your chickens and the rooster gets upset?
If it's the first case, or closest to, then he's a nutter and everyone would be better off with him out of the way, however that solution comes about.
If it's closer to the second case then you deal with your chickens until "others" are old enough, know enough, think enough to not upset the rooster.

Roosters are a bit like working dogs; they are one person creatures, call them pack leaders/seniors/trusted keepers for want of a better description.
Young roosters and mature cockerels tend to be more of a problem then established mature roosters. Everyone who is not in the tribe is an enemy or competition when they are young and it takes a bit of maturity before they'll tolerate "other" people.

 

[SkyAJK]

You could do a number of things like:
Trim his spurs & nails as those could draw blood, cut through skin.
House him in a chicken area where new people/family members young or old can not access his area without supervision.

I have a sweet rooster, sit on my lap, love the attention, he dances around us beautifully and he also attack us here and there.

We are careful when we enter our chicken run
We are mindful of where he is when he is around us.
We learn how he behaves before he launches an attack.

When we have visitors, they love to come out to the chicken area, he looks at them and started stamping his feet, this is not a good sign, but he is inside the chicken area, they are outside so there is no attack.

We do not eat chicken, but we have KFC whenever he attacks us which is rare, but it does happen.

My friend often tell me pot him..yummy.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

my rooster is the SWEETEST thing he is so nice to me but he has started ataccing people lately. I don't know how to stop this bad habit. any suggestions welcome.

If he is attacking people, he is not "the sweetest thing." He's a danger. I had a rooster who was a sweet thing - until he wasn't. He attacked me and hurt me pretty good. I had a 9-yo grandson living with me at the time. Rooster did not see another dawn. You asked our advice and we've given it. What you do with it is on you.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Incidentally, it was my rooster's BEAK that hurt me the worst, though he raked me with his claws (not spurs) and flogged me in the face with his wings, which also hurt. Not removing a rooster's beak and wings!

 

[SkyAJK]

I got a few small cuts from my hen's wing, when she slaps her wing while I was cleaning the top of the coop. I was kick by my rooster and his spurs dug a hole on my lower leg and it was nasty.

 

[DemeterAD9]

Either lock him up or buck up and pot him up. I am pretty new to chickens myself but I have not tolerated any sort of aggression from my cockerels. It helps to have a background of hunting/fishing so killing something isn't a brand new thing for me. It wasn't terribly hard for me to butcher the 4 extras as they were being horrible to the pullets and each other, 2 more got lucky the day before their scheduled demise and found a home with someone who wanted them. Another was sweet for a while but then became aggressive to people, he was on the hit list but something else got to him before I did.

Now I have 2 cockerels left and they are neither sweet nor aggressive. They tend to the girls and call them over when they see me with treats. Both simply move out of the way when I or someone else walks towards them. That may be a different story once my sister's kids stay for the summer but we'll cross that bridge when we get there (pray for me ) .