how to prevent a aggressive cockerel

[JacinLarkwell]

I would not keep him. Even little guys have breasts you can process if you really dont want him to be wasted. Just takes some work.

If he is attacking you without you being or acting like a threat, he's not doing his job. While he's focusing his attention on you, hes not paying attention to other threats that could be lingering.

In my experience, once they start actively chasing you down, they don't get nicer, even if you 'rehabilitate' them.

 

[raingarden]

He is a really handsome rooster and would never do anything ungentlemanly.

 

[ElizaMay]

Seems to me like you need to read about Roosters. I just read through all of these threads and people are saying to either get rid of him, bc he’s not doing what a roosters does, or make him into soup. Which are all stupid. You want solid advice, don’t get it from those who don’t know Chicken behavior.
There are Rooster sanctuaries our there that re-educate fighting roosters, so if they can do that. Everyone else who owns one can too. I’m not a chicken behavior expert, but I have gotten some advice from sanctuaries. Picking them up and petting them/ feeding them a treat is a good bonding/ trust exercise. Roosters have personalities too. If he’s young, he’s going to be hormonal for some time, especially if he’s around hens. Again, I recommend you getting a book on chickens. Or google Rooster behavior.

Read them ALL, did you??
I can assure you that 'get rid of him' and 'make him into soup' are not the only answers to be found.
Just ONE solution would be to separate him from other birds into a large dog cage in another separate enclosed area so he can't avoid the owner, and then to visit him and bring him food he enjoys, and just regularly feed him and be with him. This would also help him be less territorial since he would not be near hens or the other rooster.
Eventually the owner may have to give him his own area and hens.
But if the owner had no intention of actually getting a silkie cockerel (they said it was mistaken for a pullet) then maybe the best solution WOULD be to find it a new home.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

There are Rooster sanctuaries our there that re-educate fighting roosters, so if they can do that. Everyone else who owns one can too.

Fighting roosters actually tend to be very docile with people and are definitely not a breed known for human aggression. This is because they have to be easily handled so they don’t become dangerous to their owners.

 

[SilkySilkie]

Read them ALL, did you??
I can assure you that 'get rid of him' and 'make him into soup' are not the only answers to be found.
Just ONE solution would be to separate him from other birds into a large dog cage in another separate enclosed area so he can't avoid the owner, and then to visit him and bring him food he enjoys, and just regularly feed him and be with him. This would also help him be less territorial since he would not be near hens or the other rooster.
Eventually the owner may have to give him his own area and hens.
But if the owner had no intention of actually getting a silkie cockerel (they said it was mistaken for a pullet) then maybe the best solution WOULD be to find it a new home.

thank you for this answer we recently had to make him a meal as it was getting VERY out of had this happened early jan he drew lots of blood now the silkie is the alpha and he is doing a great job my experience was if i show affection too much they would become like this very aggressive the silkie doesnt attack he is fine i felt very bad having to get rid of him it was hard to do that i had no other choice and if he was back to being nice we would have to give him away or make dinner out of him because he could mate with hens as the rooster was a bantam

 

[ElizaMay]

thank you for this answer we recently had to make him a meal as it was getting VERY out of had this happened early jan he drew lots of blood now the silkie is the alpha and he is doing a great job my experience was if i show affection too much they would become like this very aggressive the silkie doesnt attack he is fine i felt very bad having to get rid of him it was hard to do that i had no other choice and if he was back to being nice we would have to give him away or make dinner out of him because he could mate with hens as the rooster was a bantam

This is confusing to me.
First it sounds like you either ate the silkie or made dinner for him. Then it seems he attacked and drew blood. Then he is the alpha and doing a great job, and doesn't attack and is fine, but then you got rid of him and felt bad, yhen he could mate with hens because he is a bantam.
I am sorry bit I am lost.
Are you able to put some periods in your sentence to maybe help me understand better the sequence of events?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

This is confusing to me.
First it sounds like you either ate the silkie or made dinner for him. Then it seems he attacked and drew blood. Then he is the alpha and doing a great job, and doesn't attack and is fine, but then you got rid of him and felt bad, yhen he could mate with hens because he is a bantam.
I am sorry bit I am lost.
Are you able to put some periods in your sentence to maybe help me understand better the sequence of events?

The cochin is the problem. The silkie is not. People keep missing the fact that the cochin is the one op was having issues with

 

[ElizaMay]

The cochin is the problem. The silkie is not. People keep missing the fact that the cochin is the one op was having issues with

Thankyou. There has been a lot of back and forth between the birds by the OP, so I went back to the beginning of the thread and read it all again. I don't have to do that often, but many of the OP's posts have almost zero puntuation/long run-on sentences/tense issues (past vs present), which I am having difficulty with.
So Jacin, can you interprest what 'make him a meal' means? Because she wrote in January that a bird 'drew a lot of blood' - it seems like they culled the cochin if I read right.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Thankyou. There has been a lot of back and forth between the birds by the OP, so I went back to the beginning of the thread and read it all again. I don't have to do that often, but many of the OP's posts have almost zero puntuation/long run-on sentences/tense issues (past vs present), which I am having difficulty with.
So Jacin, can you interprest what 'make him a meal' means? Because she wrote in January that a bird 'drew a lot of blood' - it seems like they culled the cochin if I read right.

Yep, they made him into a meal