you assume gun, he im a bow hunter, and that means nothing, i will look up chickens killing people, but if it came to harm or not if your fist or foot cant hold off a chicken you shouldne have one, i love my birds and always have, this roo that was young and abused by the hens, sat by me every night with his own tv dinner and hugged my leg while i winged corn at the hens trying to kill him, but i wont be afraid he or any chicken should be able to kill, i know roos chase kids, its nor allowed, but gheshhhh their not wild animals, damb, your trying to scare people,
I'm not trying to scare people. I'm trying to encourage people to not dismiss what is an actual threat based on the animal being small. It's a flawed premise.
About the bowhunting, it's a projectile weapon, still rather akin to a gun, but whatever... Hunting animals with weapons has still got nothing to do with having aggressive pets or livestock. Even if you were going out there and hunting a bear with a knife, or a toothpick, or your teeth and nails, or an army of trained mice, it'd still have nothing to do with keeping aggressive animals as livestock.
If you have the setup and expertise to deal with dangerously aggressive animals, (which most people don't), then I don't have any condemnation for what you do on your own property, though it'd be great to see people be more socially responsible and up-front about whether or not they are breeding on bad mentalities when it comes to selling or giving away stock. (Funny how most people go quiet about their animals being aggressive when selling, though they remain vocally supportive of aggression in their animals at other times)... It'd also be great to see people have more perspective on the long term, multi-generational effects of breeding on vicious mentalities. Those two points are sorely lacking and it leads to a lot of avoidable emotional and physical damage, especially to newbies who can't easily spot a vicious bird, and of course, children.
I never said you didn't care about your animals, not sure where that came into it.
As for the idea that if you can't use violence to control an animal you shouldn't have one, where does one start refuting a statement like that?! Seems futile... It's a skewed concept.
Personally, I'd rather keep animals that respect humans without violence ever being needed to control them. I don't believe it's necessary nor justifiable and it's not something myself, or the children, have to resort to. That's the result of selecting against violent mentalities. In the case of children especially I don't believe it's fair nor healthy to teach them to use violence against animals and subject them to having to live with such a threat.
A toddler or child (or infirm, intoxicated, disabled, distracted, or busy person) can't necessarily defend themselves at all times and I don't believe in breeding animals that people have to defend themselves from. To me it's not right that people must be ready to do violence to domestic animals in their own yards in order to remain safe.
I get that you don't think that's unreasonable, it's clear we have a very big divide in our stances on the matter. That's cool, we can agree to disagree. No point flogging it, neither of us will change our minds about this.
Best wishes.
