How to put a rooster in his place

[bockbock2008]

I have 5 roosters and only 1 is bad. My beautiful lakenvelder. my buttercup and phoenix have actually chased him away from me. I dont run from him or anything and normally he wont come after me unless someone else is out at the coop with me then he starts on them and then on me. I guess hes gotten enough pushes with my rubber boots that now he comes at those almost every time. I have a 2 year old that loves the bock bocks and she is the main reason I started with the chickens in the first place. Ever since he started attacking people last fall she hadn't been able to go into the run. Soooooo, i'm probably not going to win a popularity contest with this one but my childs safety comes first and i really didn't want to have to get rid of him in any way shape or form so I twisted off his spurs. A couple dayes later he ran up to my rubber boots thought about it for a minute and just decided to give me a peck. He stopped at that and he hasn't given me any trouble since. I think he thought I might twist off his beak next Today I finally decided to let my daughter wonder with the chickens while they were out on their 2 hours of free ranging and he did try to flog her but she just laughed at him. She thinks its hilarious when they fly or run or jump. I picked her up and told her that chicken was mean. I will have to pen "Chip" up when shes out there with me from now on just to be safe.

 

[CoyoteMagic]

Anyone in the NC Piedmont want a Red sex-linked roo? Fudge has got to go! What you do with him is up to you!! I'm about to feed him to the neighborhood pits!!!

 

[shelleyd2008]

Luckily I don't have any aggressive roos. I don't handle mine at all, except to move them from the incubator to the brooder, then from that brooder to the big brooder, then from there to the pen. I do have one dutch bantam roo that has decided my 4 y/o son is a pushover roo. Of course my son is at least 7 times taller than this little dutch, so it is pretty funny! The only time this little roo takes off after him is if he is running in the yard. The roo will come chasing him. I just have my son chase him back, the roo usually leaves him alone for a while. It is very funny though, since the roo is not brave enough to actually 'get' my son, he just goes running at least 10-15 feet behind him!

 

[Beekissed]

I had my first opportunity to school my biggest roo this evening. He's never tried anything before, but took a serious dislike to my new egg-gathering basket!

He was stalking me, getting in my space, and not backing down.....so I found a good big stick and waited in the coop for him to come in and investigate the feed I just put down.....

Whammo once and another right in his feathery backside as he scrambled for the pop door!

He apparently has been full of himself since he defeated #1 roo and hasn't learned the facts of life on the farm.

An unprovoked attack is exactly what he was needing. When I walked out into the yard later he was giving me a wide berth. This roo had never shown any signs of aggressiveness before this....we'll see how well this has worked when I go out tomorrow.

 

[rooster-red]

check out my page on roo behavior, the link is in my sig line.

 

[CynthiaM]

Beekissed, I like your thoughts on this, really I do, makes 100% sense. Have a great and wonderful day.

 

[dave_Cash69]

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Ditto

 

[mtnhomechick]

I have had two roo's but not long enough for them to fully mature.

Can anyone tell me " How" a roo charges ? I don't think I've ever seen that.

Thanks

 

[timbofarms]

Don't let anyone catch u choking ur chicken

 

[Frizzledhen]

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The last one that charged me did it when I had my back turned. I had no idea what he had in mind and it scared the begebbers out of me. Face to face they are a little more cautious but you can see what they have in mind to do. They grow to twice their size and you can see evil in their eyes. They spread their wings and either come at you with their claws or beak or both. Now with a full grown standard rooster, this can be intimidating. The one who attacked me while I had my back to him got a frying pan up side the head and I was scared and mad enough to put some power behind my swing. He now keeps his distance but I am well aware of what he can do and next time he will go into that frying pan.