It's up to you if you want to live with a human-aggressive rooster or not. I do not. I have culled aggressive roosters in the past. I have three roosters. My blue Orp Suede inherited his daddy's laid back sweet personality. He's very intelligent, as is my Delaware cockerel, Isaac, and my BR rooster, Dutch.
I will not put up with a flogging rooster here. He does not have to be human-aggressive and literally bite the hand that feeds him in order to be tough enough to defend his women against predators.
Recently, I had a situation with Dutch, who is about a year-and-a-half old. After rehoming his little brother that he refused to get along with, he was scabby from the fights and some of the girls were picking at his comb and wattles constantly, especially when on the roost. I removed him from the flock nightly and put him in the little Firetower coop to keep his poor head safe. After a couple weeks of doing that, one day I went to get him, as usual, from the main flock. He let me pick him up like normal, which he was always good about. When I placed him in the Firetower pen, he whirled around and bit my hand, hard. Stunned the heck out of me. My DH grabbed him up and talked to him and petted him, etc.
A couple days later, he began mini-charges at me. Never touched me, but ran at me and when I saw him, he would stop. I could see something in his eyes, and call me crazy, but he was holding a grudge just at me, for some reason, though I wasn't the only one to put him in his separate quarters every night.
Over the last few months, it has lessened considerably, but he looks at me differently now. I do not fully trust him and the day he actually flogs me, he's gone. I adore him and he is a wonderful rooster, breaking up fights, protecting the girls, etc, just marvelous. And he's Hawkeye's son, which makes him really special to me. However, I will not abide a flogging rooster here. I do not want to have to watch my back every second that I'm with him. The only upside to having to remove him from here is that his issue seems to be only with me and it appears that he's getting over it now that we quit removing him from his girls nightly. So, he will probably be a great rooster for someone else.
Usually, aggression starts as they begin mating the girls, rarely when they've been great for over a year, so I don't consider Dutch a truly aggressive rooster. He would even come and stand to be picked up by either of us. If he changes for the worse, he's gone, though.
As a side note, I do not agree with fighting a rooster. That brings you down to his level and he'll always be looking for his chance to get you, as he would with another rooster. I'd rather make him submit to my authority. If he can't be smart enough to do that, then he's gone.
I will not put up with a flogging rooster here. He does not have to be human-aggressive and literally bite the hand that feeds him in order to be tough enough to defend his women against predators.
Recently, I had a situation with Dutch, who is about a year-and-a-half old. After rehoming his little brother that he refused to get along with, he was scabby from the fights and some of the girls were picking at his comb and wattles constantly, especially when on the roost. I removed him from the flock nightly and put him in the little Firetower coop to keep his poor head safe. After a couple weeks of doing that, one day I went to get him, as usual, from the main flock. He let me pick him up like normal, which he was always good about. When I placed him in the Firetower pen, he whirled around and bit my hand, hard. Stunned the heck out of me. My DH grabbed him up and talked to him and petted him, etc.
A couple days later, he began mini-charges at me. Never touched me, but ran at me and when I saw him, he would stop. I could see something in his eyes, and call me crazy, but he was holding a grudge just at me, for some reason, though I wasn't the only one to put him in his separate quarters every night.
Over the last few months, it has lessened considerably, but he looks at me differently now. I do not fully trust him and the day he actually flogs me, he's gone. I adore him and he is a wonderful rooster, breaking up fights, protecting the girls, etc, just marvelous. And he's Hawkeye's son, which makes him really special to me. However, I will not abide a flogging rooster here. I do not want to have to watch my back every second that I'm with him. The only upside to having to remove him from here is that his issue seems to be only with me and it appears that he's getting over it now that we quit removing him from his girls nightly. So, he will probably be a great rooster for someone else.
Usually, aggression starts as they begin mating the girls, rarely when they've been great for over a year, so I don't consider Dutch a truly aggressive rooster. He would even come and stand to be picked up by either of us. If he changes for the worse, he's gone, though.
As a side note, I do not agree with fighting a rooster. That brings you down to his level and he'll always be looking for his chance to get you, as he would with another rooster. I'd rather make him submit to my authority. If he can't be smart enough to do that, then he's gone.
