How to deal with an aggressive rooster?

[Love2read]

My Barred Rock boy(our only adult rooster) has decided he no longer likes me...He doesn't go out of his way to attack me, but lately when I go near him he'll puff up and try kicking me(well, my foot...he seems to have it out for my foot). I'm not sure what else to do, so I stand my ground and do my best to fend him off and let him know I'm not going to let him win til he gives up and walks away.

Today I cornered him after he attacked me, pinned him down a bit(like he would one of his hens), and then carried him around for a while to put him in his place. I have no clue if that was the right thing to do or not, but I was at a bit of a loss and it seemed like it might be the appropriate response.

Was that a good or bad thing to do? Is there any way to nip this in the bud? I don't want him to be a pushover because I want him protecting his girls and I understand that's normal rooster behavior, but he needs to recognize that hubby and I are NOT to be attacked.

If it doesn't stop, we'll be having chicken for dinner...but I'd like to try and fix the behavior before giving up.

 

[Love2read]

BTW, he's about a year and a half old and we've had hardly any problems. Just lately this has become an issue.

 

[Cluckysnap123]

Maybe there is a problem? IDK, just don't kill him.

 

[Love2read]

Eating chickens kinda goes hand in hand with raising them for meat/eggs. :/ I like the rooster and he's the only chicken we have with a name(General Tso), but I'm not going to keep an aggressive rooster and wouldn't want to dump that responsibility on someone else's lap either(not to mention that it would be mean to take him from his girls and drop him off at some strange new place).

I'd rather eat a chicken I raised myself and gave a good life versus giving money to those huge mills by buying store-bought chicken.

 

[blucoondawg]

If it continues to get worse I would butcher him. I have found it isn't worth my time to bother trying to train them when it usually doesn't work anyways. There's plenty of nice roosters out there, no sense dealing with a mean one. And you won't want to pass on potentially human aggressive genes if you decide to hatch eggs.

 

[Ole rooster]

I've had 3 roosters get a bad attitude. Two I sold for what ever the folks wanted to do with them, the other got so bad he came at me for the last time and I shot him. One rooster was pretty mild and didn't give me a problem. I just bought 6 Welsummers with a cockrel included. We'll see how this goes. From what I found is it takes a year and a half or two for his genes to get the best of him, if they will.

So bottom line, don't put up with it. If he can't get his act in order, then he makes you many pounds of chicken salad.