I have been flogged FYI ***I will NOT be culling this Rooster

[dnenella]

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deff. do has this person said i had one the first day it got me and ended up with a poop load of stiches my dad did not want to get rid of it but it got worse every day so we finally had to put it down. clean it out real good and watch for infection

 

[gryeyes]

My formerly docile rooster had recently started to sneak up on me and peck once really hard at my ankles. Granted, I have tattoos on my ankles, which interest chickens for some reason. (The hens occasionally will test-peck one.) This doesn't seem like the same thing.

He's otherwise still docile, never flares at me or stamps or any other ominous signs. However, I didn't want that sneaky peck to escalate, so I've taken to walking towards him and not stopping whilst HE backs up and then turns away. Then I stand there for a good minute or so, watching him. He looks back at me, too.... I haven't been knocking him off the hens, so I think that's why he's testing me.

So I've started claiming the hens he wants exactly when he wants them. I pick them up and love them, carry each one around for a little bit. He gets to mate when I'm not there, now.

And every once in a while, I pick him up - he calms down quickly, it's no fight or bother with flapping and fuss - and I carry him around for a couple minutes.

I'm waiting to see if he sneak-pecks me again. It's only happened thrice - the first time I didn't recognize it as something serious.

 

[slightlyscrambled]

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I happen to like an aluminum scoop shovel

its lite, I can use it to pick up the nasty-ist bedding to throw out and its makes it quite easy to smack down a rooster!!

 

[auntieLisa]

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I happen to like an aluminum scoop shovel

its lite, I can use it to pick up the nasty-ist bedding to throw out and its makes it quite easy to smack down a rooster!!

I tried the shovel smack down as well; I just ended up feeling like someone who abuses animals. Flogging is chicken behavior. I need to be smarter than him.

 

[chickenzoo]

cattle prod...............

 

[WildBurroShirts.com]

Sorry you were flogged. The first time is always a shock.

I've had 6 roosters. Only one was really nice/cuddly, and the hens actually killed him: pecked his butt until he bled.

I've had one that flogged me and my adorable blue EE rooster is seriously thinking about it now. I can recognize the signs: stamping, circling back behind me clucking warnings, running towards me crowing, etc.

So...I've been...uh...well...I believe the British term is "hand shagging" him. Just like when he mounts a hen, I hold him down and bounce my hand up and down on his back near his tail, and then reach up and yank a few back of the neck feathers so his head gets pulled back. (I don't pull them out, just pull his head back like he does to them)

He HATES

it. All of the girls gather around and seem to snicker at him. I do it until he stops fighting and acts passive. Then pick him up and carry him under my arm while I clean roosts, fill waters, etc.

I then...uh...repeat the performance (and the girls all run over again, amazed that he's...in the girl position). I turn him over on his back on the ground until he is totally calm, then walk away while he's on his back...takes him a few seconds to figure out he's free, and I'm gone by then.

He's nice for a few weeks after...



edited because I can't spell

 

[silkydragon]

ive had 1 ive tried showing him it is completly useless attacking me i wish i got a video of 1 time he did it cuz he suprised me and i kicked him in the right spot to send him straight up in the air and smacked him but that did nothing for the crazy rooster recently he attacked 1 of my dads friends who was here to fix our vehicles and tore his leg up good so i now have him locked in a cage tomarrow is D-day because i would hate to see what that guy would have done to our wallets if he wasnt a friend(personly id be embarassed to go to court cuz i got pwnd by a chicken)

 

[biddybird]

Love reading all the rooster taming methods. We have a roo named FogHorn, looks like FogHorn LegHorn. He is beautiful but will get you if you turn your back. We actually adopted him and saved him from a stew pot. For safety measures we cut his spurs and they have grown back as nubs, no points at all, so if he does get someone its like a tap. He is quite a conversation piece around our barn. And a very good watch dog.
We have found it does seem to help to chase him and challenge him and my son has punted him, but he forgets and comes at you again after awhile. With his nubs he doesn't hurt and it allows us to keep him.
Our other roo named Superman(old English/leghorn cross, named for what he does) does not like Foghorn to challenge us and watches him constantly. As Foghorn sets up to attack, superman gets him from behind and it is quite entertaining. Superman actually flares his feathers out and walks tall between Me and Foghorn, I guess I'm one of his hens.

 

[NWChicks]

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Have a double cheeseburger, onion rings and a chocolate malt for lunch tomorrow... always makes me feel better!

I really like you! lol

 

[Miss Red]

I have a rooster we lovingly call a cuss word because he's a royal... yeah. He has three inch long spurs, and is a free ranging wild roo. When he feels the need he has been known to charge you from across the yard. The first time it happened I got stitches in my hand. Second time, the dog was in favor... then my mother, then my brother [who drop kicked him before the full attack].

He wont quit. He's just a real f. But, he's the best flock leader we've had and the last son out of his father so he's not going anywhere. What did we do to solve the problem? When we see him coming [or hear, he makes a noise right before he strikes] we bunt him. If he comes back, we carry him upside down and it will deter him often for weeks at a time.

It may not be the most humane way, but it keeps him from hurting anyone else. All guests are told the rules and told not to turn their backs on him.