How can I keep my Rooster from Flogging me?

[terrilhb]

I have 3 roosters. All 3 of mine have gone after me. But I put them in their place. I know can go into the coop and they do not bother me. They don't get to close but they respect me. My daughter goes in all the time too. Now if my husband or son go in they go after them. It is because they don't go in the coop very often. I have found that if they get to know you they learn to not attack. Give him time. Just remember Roo's are their to protect the hens not be pets. This is just my opinion. Hope all works out well for you.

 

[calvincoop]

When he does it, catch him, pick him up and carry him around the yard for a few minutes and make sure the hens are watching. He'll find it SUPER embarrassing and degrading and it will put him in his place.

 

[Chicken.Lytle]

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This is good advice. My rooster will protect the flock from unfamiliar people.

I haze my rooster every single day to make sure he is #2 roo and never gets to the point where he thinks he can challenge me. There is no drowning, beating, kicking, or even any physical contact involved. I just intimidate him a little bit every day to reinforce his secondary status. The most extreme thing I did was put him in chicken jail overnight one time. No problems since then.

 

[wsdareme]

Chicken.Lytle :

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This is good advice. My rooster will protect the flock from unfamiliar people.

I haze my rooster every single day to make sure he is #2 roo and never gets to the point where he thinks he can challenge me. There is no drowning, beating, kicking, or even any physical contact involved. I just intimidate him a little bit every day to reinforce his secondary status. The most extreme thing I did was put him in chicken jail overnight one time. No problems since then.

X 2 ! ! !

I made sure early on my rooster knew who was #1 (and it wasn't going to be him). I picked him up by the feet and packed him around for about a minute in front of all the girls. He steers VERY clear of me. When I pick up one of the hens and she squawks, he'll "buck-buck" a little bit, but there are NO thoughts of challenging me.​

 

[gryeyes]

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That carrying around gambit really works.

The other method is to "walk him backwards." What I do is turn on the rooster who makes an attempt to flog me, and I walk slowly and deliberately towards him. This causes the challenger to back up. I just keep walking forward. If he turns slightly, but still faces me, then I turn also and continue walking him backwards. I've got one little Silver Sebright rooster who is a real pip and I've had to walk him backwards about five times in his 9 months of life.

You keep walking until the rooster turns AWAY, not just turns his butt and still faces you. He has to give up. Once he gives up, you don't follow any longer, but continue forward for a few steps until you turn to go do whatever you were going to do in the first place. There's no need to chase him down or anything.

If you chase a rooster, it's a challenge. You don't want to start a challenge, you just want the rooster to know you are The Boss of Him (and everyone else, too).

 

[Luvroos]

I also have a golden sebrite rooster that floggers me nearly every day! I think the black crocs that I wear around them might have something to do with it and then again he does not always retreat and if I walk towards him in order to make him back up he'll flogger me even more while ignoring my commands and all about me and thinking that he is really doing something. He reminds me of a very spoiled hard headed child at times. I used to watch tv with he and his mate and have not in a while and as he walked through the house to get to the back of the couch to sit down with me he strutted his stuff like all get out! I think I might had spoiled this one just a bit to much and will pay for it in the long run come time to wear shorts around him!

 

[guinea fowl galore]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=5317014
After I did this to My rooster he has been SOOOOOOO scared of me it's crazy. And it didn't even hurt him.
Please try this. If you do, please tell me how it works for you

 

[ladybug99]

Mine has started to flogg as well.. he is testing me....he knows I am the boss but he wants to be. I have tried kicking and yelling at him, holding him down too.. but what I have found works the best is a broom....I usually have it in my hand anyways while sweeping out the coop.. I usually swish it his way when I walk in and then do my business and swish it at him before I leave and he has been leaving me alone. I guess each person has thier own way of dealing with a dominate rooster. I have an enclosed coop so it is important he behave himself as I don't have much place to run.

 

[Gypsy07]

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The first and only time one of my two current roos started to get a bit cheeky, this is exactly what I did. Each morning when I let everybody out to free range, I cornered him in the run and picked him up and carried him about with me while I threw corn for all the others. I wanted to make sure everybody else saw me carrying him around. Each time he acted really aloof and as if nothing was happening and I wasn't even there, but he's been very polite ever since. Standoffish, but polite. He keeps away from me, but not in a scared-of-me way. Just in an oh-that-bit-of-the-yard-over-there-suddenly-looks-more-interesting kind of way. It's quite funny really.

 

[Sunny Side Up]

Keep in mind that these are suggestions to try on a unique individual animal, not instructions on how to repair an inanimate object. Individual results will vary!!! The technique that may have tamed one member's rooster may be the very thing that drives your roo to further aggression. Proceed with caution, especially if you have young or frail people who may come in contact with this bird.

The reality of roosters is this: there are manymanymany MORE roosters in the world than there are positions for them to serve as pets, breeders, or flock husbands. If an ideal ratio in a mixed flock is 1:10, then that leaves a good 90% of all roosters hatched as surplus. Many folks think they serve a fine purpose on a plate. There simply isn't room in the world to keep even half of them in separate cages. There are far worse things that can happen to an unwanted rooster than to provide nourishment for a grateful family.

With that in mind, I won't put up with any aggressive behavior from the few roos I keep with my flock. Unless he had once rescued my children from a burning building or has begun pooping rare gemstones I wouldn't keep an aggressive rooster around. There are many gentlemanly roosters being brought to the chopping block, many being offered for free on the BYC auction pages and your local Craigslist.