I hate my rooster!

[BigDaddy'sGurl]

I won't tolerate a mean roo. Have two good boys at the moment, one is a mix and the other is a fayoumi. Only problem with the fayoumi is that he can be a pushover. Just this morning I let his group out to free range while I cleaned their coop. My neighbor had a new rooster who had escaped his pen and slowly made his way to my property and hens. "Pharoah" (the fayoumi) didn't challenge him at all and even let me herd the whole group with the visitor into Pharoah's coop to capture the interloper. Guess it's good that he doesn't have a mean bone in his body, but to not challenge a new rooster?

 

[RedIII]

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True this. There just seems to be mean birds among any breed, from what little I've seen. The roo I have right now is an EE who doesn't quite have all of his wires connected right, but he's very well behaved. So, perhaps try to find you a 'special' boy?

Kidding.......

 

[Fire]

Im still a newbie but my rooster is very gentle. He will let you pet him sometimes, but never is aggressive with us. He is a RIR and raised by us. I keep waiting for him to turn mean but he is a year old now and still nice.

 

[Southernbell]

i honestly think rhode island reds are the best in the niceness

 

[SkyWarrior]

The only rooster I've had that ever gave me a lick of grief was a RIR that got a little too big for his britches. He got punted a couple of times and eventually made the soup pot, but not for his behavior. I had better roos than him.

One really nice roo I had was a BR, but he was really rough on the hens. A few ended up bald from his attentions. He's in freezer camp and the girls are growing back their feathers. He is the dad to most of my current crop of pullets and cockerels, so he pretty much outlived his usefulness. Another Roo I had, named Vader, was an awesome roo. He was a giant EE, and I think before he died, I managed to hatch a few of his chicks. I currently have a feather-legged cuckoo marans, an EE and a Barnevelder roo, all who are really sweet, or at least non-aggressive. I'm planning on bringing up an OE roo I've named Squawk and an EE roo I've named Piper (who I think is Vader's kid) into the flock. Vader met with an untimely end under the llama's foot--the only casualty from Sid the llama.

If you go on Craigslist, you can find a lot of nice roos. I've taken in a Wyandotte, two BRs, an EE, 2 Barnevelders, and a RIR. None of them were nasty.

 

[effie]

I haven't had time to try any of the methods here yet--and in the meantime I had a neighbor show up to pick up some artwork and Cogburn jumped him!!!

I can't have that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I mean -really-he is potbound!!!

 

[galanie]

I have a 10 lb black orp roo that is really fairly nice, but pushes his limits when he can. I guess I'm lucky in that he only does it in non-aggressive ways. What I mean is that after acting like he was breeding a hen around 10 feet from me (it looked real, but he never did the deed really) he decided that he didn't have to move as I walked by. He got bowled over since I just walked right through him. Then he'd offer me a treat, and when I stopped, wing danced me. That didn't work either. But you need to know that these things are ploys for trying to be head of the flock and nipping them in the bud before they go farther. So far the guy has only come at me once (and it was understandable but still...) and got held down till he he stayed there after I let go for his effort. After that, it's been these little games. But only little games, so I'm OK with that.

What I'm not ok with is how he treats his ladies sometimes. He can be such a jerk, but I need him for now. Sometimes he hogs the food for himself and sometimes he nicely gives them that fat tempting bug instead of eating it. I hope to get a better one in the spring and there just isn't a plethora of nice Orps around here so that I can be super choosy. If he were very aggressive to me though, He'd be soup. I wouldn't care less about his breeding if that were the case. I won't have one like that and I won't pass it on. Ask that crazy year old hen I had about that. I sure hated to eat a layer but there's limits around here and again, I won't pass that off to someone else.

A long soak in a crockpot sounds like your guys best rehab.

 

[HHandbasket]

A rooster that is so mean you do not like him is one that you would like better in a chicken taco.

Just sayin'.

Mean rooster makes a nice chicken salad sandwich, too.

 

[Gersbud]

I have 2 new roos in my main flock. The one roo that thinks he is the boss does not like many people. He will chase my son and my other half. He tried once with me when my 1 year old grandson. Instead of him chasing me away I started to chase him. He no longer chases me, but he will on occasion chase my other half and son, but then they thought I was stupid, not to mention looked stupid chasing the roo so I guess I was the smart one. LOL. Just show him who the boss is.

 

[stcroixusvi]

This thread comes up quite a bit - and has always been helpful for me to read about how people handle aggressive roosters without being mean to them. I pick ours up the minute he comes out the pop door in the morning and carry him in one arm while I pour the food and close up other doors. When he started charging my husband, and then me again, we both picked him up. On rare occasions he puts up his hackles at me, so I pick him up again and carry him around for awhile. I am not mean but firm, big difference. We have other roos that are fine, and have never been a problem, but Stevie - the roo in my avatar - has always been the guy in charge of the hens. In fact, he is so busy watching out while they free range, he rarely has an opportunity with the hens. I sincerely doubt any of the fertilized eggs will have his dna

On the other hand, I have no doubt he would defend with his life if a predator came into the yard.