How To Raise A Rooster

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Just a thought, you get rid of them, then your big roo drops dead, well, that's my life

 

[microchick]

LOL! That's what my husband says also. That would just about be our luck though...and why Bevis and Butthead are still around.

 

[pfields]

I never picked up my two roosters (Mr. White (GSL) and Mr. Black (BA)), never gave them special treats or treatment but as they got older they got meaner. I did the walk at them when they first started to come at me and that worked for awhile and then one day I did that with Mr. Black and he flew up in the air and came at my face. I never feared him before but that scared me and I screamed. I sold him. Well Mr. White just took his place. He came at me several times and my husband. About a month ago early in the morning I went out to take the caps off the feeders (we put caps on our homemade feeders to keep rats out at night) anyway, I opened the gate and he was in the middle of the hens by the fence so I just walked by to the feeders under the trees. The next thing I know he comes up from behind and spurs my right leg and when I turned around and walked toward him kicking at him with my left leg and hollering at him he spurred me again on my left leg. Both legs got spurred to the bone. It was quite painful. My husband took me to the ER (it was the weekend) to get antibiotic shots and also some pain meds. By that night and the next day my left ankle was so swollen I couldn't walk and it hurt bad! He got me to the bone in the front of my right leg and made a deep scratch on the back on my right leg, and then below my left ankle and in the front of my left leg. I did everything that was mentioned in the first article about how to raise a rooster. I'm sad to say it didn't work with mine. I had given him so many chances and he would be good for a couple days/weeks and then back to attack mode. I now have one BO rooster that's going on 27 weeks. So far he hasn't shown any signs of aggression. He's not very nice to the hens so I may not keep him.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

maybe it helps that I'm a dominant personality, I carry myself in a confident way, plus those roosters would have gotten a whooping from me, most unfixed male animals are aggressive, stallions, bull, Buck goats, men, if you want to keep them sometimes you get ones that are impossible to deal with

 

[pfields]

I did hit Mr. White the first time he came at me and also when he came at my husband I picked up a level and hit him. He would be good for awhile and then start being mean again. I was never afraid of Mr. White and chased him around the yard many times when he would come at me. He saw an opportunity to get me and took it. He's dead now.

Lol, if you ask my husband he would say I'm dominate.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Yeah sometimes no matter what you do they want you dead, best to say goodbye and have less stress in your life, there are really good roosters out there, maybe your BO will come around, they go through a nutty faze as the mature, sometimes I put them in a separate pen within my pen, and let them mellow for a month or two, as the winter approaches the hormones will lessen

 

[armstrongchick]

I have a young rooster who isn't leaving the coop. Sitting in one of the nests in fact and refusing to leave the coop when shoo'd out of the nest. Not sure why he seems so lathargic and am worried. The weather has been super hot and not it has been raining a lot for the last few days. Could it be mood or general malise. He didn't even crow this morning.

 

[MelissaZeno]

I have a Rooster that is 1 now and I ended up with 2 roos from my spring order, 1 is an old english game, and one is a cochin but I can't tell what he is going to look like yet. He is white but has slight blue or gray around the feathers towards the tips. They are about 3 months old. are they too young to be out near the older rooster who is a very nice roo and hasn't hurt the younger chick that have been free-ranging with the older hens for a couple of weeks now. The two groups have stayed apart for the most part with the occassional harrassment from one of the hens.
The little cochin will follow me or the kids around and he already asks to be picked up. My 11 year old daughter adores him and has held him every day since I allowed her to start holding them. I tried to ignore him and he went around my feet then started pecking at my feet whiled he peeped away at me. He is hard to resist, but his feathers are so dirty and I have been locking him up when is raining. Is there a way to trim the feathers on his feet without hurting him?

 

[Kleonaptra]

Had to discipline Roo Beast the other day. As chicks they used to climb all over me. He jumped up on to my back and I threw him on the ground. He tried to get out of it, I held him down, had a growl, then let him go. Since then he's been cool. I'm definitely the alpha, whether in the horse paddock, poultry pen or with the dog. Everyone knows I'm the boss. Its dreaded teenage time for my guy, and I really feel I might have 2 roos. Got to get some pics up and get a second opinion.

 

[pfields]

Good luck with that rooster. Twice I hit mine so hard I thought I had killed him after an attack. He would be good for a few weeks and then back to his old self. Watch him, if he's like mine was he's waiting for just the right time to get you.