Hen keeps trying to protect me from mean rooster

[SarahGfa]

I personally don't like to be attacked.

That gal would earn pet status and the stupid cockerel suddenly attacking the giant that brings food would get a free trip to freezer camp here.

To me the pullet isn't teaching him not to go after you. And it will more likely just be a pecking order dynamic. But interesting to see, none the less!

Curious... was he loved on and a wonderful lap pet earlier on? Or what has the dynamic been thus far? And how on Earth do you get away with keeping him in the city with neighbors? Or is San Jose just general?

I personally would wallup him myself so he could learn to respect me if I was gonna let him stay. Verses maybe just trying to sneak around and get me when the hen isn't looking.

Good luck!

She is a good girl for sure I never gave the rooster much attention as a chick. He was always sort of scared of me.

I am in the city, but the rooster is not that loud compared to all the other noise in the neighborhood (in my opinion!). I can barely hear him from inside the house. My neighbors have barking dogs that are WAY louder.

Maybe I will wallup him if he doesn't shape up soon, thanks

 

[SarahGfa]

I can only ask you not to listen to the kill the roosters posters.
This is my current boot decoration. It doesn't hurt because I wear sensible footwear, it doesn't last long and it doesn't cost anything.

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Is he just resting there like that?? My rooster is not so polite... he comes at me with his neck puffed up and jumps at my foot. It doesn't hurt because he is little, but it is bad manners.

 

[Shadrach]

Is he just resting there like that?? My rooster is not so polite... he comes at me with his neck puffed up and jumps at my foot. It doesn't hurt because he is little, but it is bad manners.

No he's not just resting there, he's wiggling.
I don't think chickens know about the human concept of good and bad manners.
This cockerel, his name is Cillin, can't get near the hens because the groups rooster drives him away. There were some special circumstances that meant he imprinted me while he was a chick. If he needs sex, I'm all he's got at the moment.
I've had it happen before. They grow out of it eventually. I should, being male, be doubly insulted but it's just the way cockerels are if they've become 'attached' to you in some way.
When he sees me he makes a run for my boots. If I keep walking he side steps and waits for me to stop. When I stop, he I assume takes this as a sign that it's okay to mate.

 

[SarahGfa]

No he's not just resting there, he's wiggling.
I don't think chickens know about the human concept of good and bad manners.
This cockerel, his name is Cillin, can't get near the hens because the groups rooster drives him away. There were some special circumstances that meant he imprinted me while he was a chick. If he needs sex, I'm all he's got at the moment.
I've had it happen before. They grow out of it eventually. I should, being male, be doubly insulted but it's just the way cockerels are if they've become 'attached' to you in some way.
When he sees me he makes a run for my boots. If I keep walking he side steps and waits for me to stop. When I stop, he I assume takes this as a sign that it's okay to mate.

Oh, that's funny! My rooster is the only male and he has 8 females to mate with so he doesn't need me. Most of the time he either ignores me or runs away from me, but recently he has been acting up. I hope he grows out of it or the hen teaches him a lesson. I know chickens don't understand good manners, but animals should be able to learn who they can/can't mate with.

 

[Shadrach]

Oh, that's funny! My rooster is the only male and he has 8 females to mate with so he doesn't need me. Most of the time he either ignores me or runs away from me, but recently he has been acting up. I hope he grows out of it or the hen teaches him a lesson. I know chickens don't understand good manners, but animals should be able to learn who they can/can't mate with.

I hope he does grow up..........it's something I've never quite managed.

 

[ChickNanny13]

Try a long reaching squirt bottle & squirt him as he approaches you. Don't let him get close at all. Cute that you are being protected by your hen, she's a keeper, he may need freezer camp if he continues.

 

[centrarchid]

Oh, that's funny! My rooster is the only male and he has 8 females to mate with so he doesn't need me. Most of the time he either ignores me or runs away from me, but recently he has been acting up. I hope he grows out of it or the hen teaches him a lesson. I know chickens don't understand good manners, but animals should be able to learn who they can/can't mate with.

I would like to suggest a different approach. Spend more time in the coop and do not respond in any way to his attacks. After he stops for a moment or two move, again do not respond to his attacks. If like what I have seen, he will decide his actions have no effect on you activity and give up. It takes times and possibly repeated bouts before he makes final his approach.

 

[SniperGoose]

This is really interesting. I have a speckled sussex hen that attacked my gander who was trying to attack me last spring. I was in the process of pinning him down to the ground and she comes running over and barrels into him and starts wailing on him. She's at the bottom of the pecking order, so it was very strange to me, but sweet in a way. I gently nudged her away and she stood by until I let the gander back up after he stopped resisting. She's since then become one of my favorites. Nice to read about another hen doing something similar!

 

[SarahGfa]

This is really interesting. I have a speckled sussex hen that attacked my gander who was trying to attack me last spring. I was in the process of pinning him down to the ground and she comes running over and barrels into him and starts wailing on him. She's at the bottom of the pecking order, so it was very strange to me, but sweet in a way. I gently nudged her away and she stood by until I let the gander back up after he stopped resisting. She's since then become one of my favorites. Nice to read about another hen doing something similar!

That's the weirdest thing! I would not have been surprised to see my dominant hen take on the rooster, but this one is really low on the pecking order and normally gets picked on by the others. Crazy.

 

[SarahGfa]

I would like to suggest a different approach. Spend more time in the coop and do not respond in any way to his attacks. After he stops for a moment or two move, again do not respond to his attacks. If like what I have seen, he will decide his actions have no effect on you activity and give up. It takes times and possibly repeated bouts before he makes final his approach.

Will this teach him to ignore all humans, or just me? I generally dislike the "carry the rooster around like a football" approach because that doesn't stop him from attacking new visitors. But maybe if I let my hen keep walluping him, he will learn not to be aggressive to any human.