How To Raise A Rooster

[KelsiNS]

He comes all the way across the yard and stares at me like he wants to kill me. He grabbed tne towel I was using the other day and pulled it out of my hands. Maybe he will be happier when he matures and starts breeding? I don't know.

i think id be swiping up a rooster and having a come to jesus meeting with him. A place i used to clean stables for had a turkey like that. I remember it took yanking him off the ground and holding him on his back (while screaming profanities which may or may not have helped) tp break the habit, at least with me. All it took was acting like i would grab him and he backed off.

If the roo is that mean, a good wollop with a stick our even a hand may be in order. Im all lovey dovey until i cant do daily futies becae of an attitude-then ill beat the living boogers out of em.

 

[Fancychooklady]

He comes all the way across the yard and stares at me like he wants to kill me. He grabbed tne towel I was using the other day and pulled it out of my hands. Maybe he will be happier when he matures and starts breeding? I don't know.

Unfortunately he sees the towel as a bull would see a red flag. Aggression begets aggression . My friends barnevelder roo was a bugger for this. But my friend would kick him and that just made him meaner. I wore gumboots , waited till he was concentrating on my feet and scooped him up. Every time I entered the pen I picked him up, carried him around till I was finished then let him down. He still doesn't like me , but he hates being picked up , so he is a little aloof when I enter and that's the way I like it. This won't work for all Roos , and its hard not to retaliate when your being flogged, but as soon as you challenge him he's bound to take you on. Aggressive Roos are not only dangerous to you, but think what he might do to a child.

 

[ChickenLife]

I've got a ? about de spurring they is it possible. Like using a calf dehorner or a branding iron on them. It would be kind like dehorning but on the leg so you would have to be real careful how deep the burn went. has anybody tried it and if so does it work.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

What you are thinking of doing will likely kill you rooster. Instead get a fine toothed hacksaw blade, even 1/2 of a blade will do, and saw his spurs off about 3/8 to 1/2 of an inch from his foot. Yes the part of the rooster that spurs and scales grows on is the chickens foot not its leg. A lump of old bees wax to run your saw blade through a few times before you begin sawing on each foot will lessen bleeding from the stump of the severed spur or you can use some septic powder or a septic stick like the ones men use to stop bleeding when they nick their face while shaving and apply that to the bloody stump after you're finished.

 

[cafarmgirl]

We just clip the spurs back and then file them smooth and rounded. No blood, no pain. A calf dehorner or branding iron is way too big and way too hot, you could easily cause serious burns in no time.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

He comes all the way across the yard and stares at me like he wants to kill me. He grabbed tne towel I was using the other day and pulled it out of my hands...

In his own mind your roo is only defending his hens. Hitting or kicking him (outside of literally stomping him into the ground) only makes him worse. Anytime you go into the coop and cause a hen to squawk, fly, and run around like the devil was after her you only cause a rooster to fight you harder because if you didn't kill the frightened hen in the most bloody and gruesome fashion then the rooster sees his actions as a successful defense of his flock. Chickens don't think and reason they are only programmed to react in the same manner that got them this far down the evolutionary path.

You mentioned catching chickens to put them back into the coop at night. Have you ever alarmed a hen while doing this?

 

[ChickenLife]

The rooster are very young there spurs are just emerging and I can put a topical numbing agent on there legs and use my calf branding iron just the edge of it to sear where the spur is come out
of the leg. My boys are fighting some now, fixing there picking order. I was just thing of how we did the cattle and it stopped a lot of problems with the cattle. So I thought maybe burning the roosters spurs was a way of nipping a problem in the bud.

 

[Jakoda]

I have a 16 week old coronation sussex Roo,,Snowy (below)..So far he's a big 'weenie' I'm hoping he stays that way..He has yet to crow. which is fine by me, I don't really handle him. I have hand fed him, and he doesn't mind me touching him/petting him on occasion. I'm thinking he is rather wussified (LOL) is because he is one of two others ( a coro sussex and RIR females) that I got as day olds, I've integrated him into a flock of 7 year old hens, that I sometimes refer to as "the mean girls"

The girls are easily handled and quite friendly, but they take no crap from him, he gets to close, they give him a peck and he goes running, as well as screaming like a girl..He is not real possessive of the two he grew up with, tho they do tend to stick together, the two girls he grew up with are fine with the 'mean girls'..

When I throw out treats/veggies and such, sometimes the girls don't let him join in, he will definitely defer to the girls, he walks around whining like a chicken with no friends...

I'm hoping he stays this way, meek and mild mannered. I know all roos are different, and I haven't seen any aggressive tendencies from him at all. Never seen him try to mate with any of the girls..Is there an 'age' I would start seeing mating tendencies??

Anyhow, here's Snowy (what can I say my nephew named him He's a LARGE bird, the largets

 

[Fancychooklady]

I have a 16 week old coronation sussex Roo,,Snowy (below)..So far he's a big 'weenie' I'm hoping he stays that way..He has yet to crow. which is fine by me, I don't really handle him. I have hand fed him, and he doesn't mind me touching him/petting him on occasion. I'm thinking he is rather wussified (LOL) is because he is one of two others ( a coro sussex and RIR females) that I got as day olds, I've integrated him into a flock of 7 year old hens, that I sometimes refer to as "the mean girls" The girls are easily handled and quite friendly, but they take no crap from him, he gets to clo se, they give him a peck and he goes running, as well as screaming like a girl..He is not real possessive of the two he grew up with, tho they do tend to stick together, the two girls he grew up with are fine with the 'mean girls'.. When I throw out treats/veggies and such, sometimes the girls don't let him join in, he will definitely defer to the girls, he walks around whining like a chicken with no friends... I'm hoping he stays this way, meek and mild mannered. I know all roos are different, and I haven't seen any aggressive tendencies from him at all. Never seen him try to mate with any of the girls..Is there an 'age' I would start seeing mating tendencies?? Anyhow, here's Snowy (what can I say my nephew named him He's a LARGE bird, the largets

My coronation sussex roo " king George " is the sweetest of all my Roos. Good with his ladies and always comes runnin with the others for treats. He is 12 months old.

 

[Jakoda]

ahhh good to hear, hoping mine stays this way