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I am a city girl but moved to the county 20+ years ago. My neighbor has over 30 chickens that constantly surround my house. I never imagined that I would like chickens or become attached to chickens but they quickly became a big part of my life. I've named them all and laugh when they do silly things and cry when they pass away. My husband thinks I'm losing my mind.

Last week I looked out my kitchen window and one of them showed up with a baby. My neighbor and I searched for a couple days and finally found the other 7 babies with a different chicken. We live in the Adirondacks and they are free range chickens. The chicken sleeping in my yard "borrowed" another one and now I have 2 babies and a Momma. My neighbor has 3 Brahmas, 2 Bantams, 2 Silkies and I think the rest are regular chickens. Needless to say I'm new to this and am learning daily about how to feed them and care for them. Hopefully they will head home to the coop as the babies get larger.

I am a senior citizen, retired 2 1/2 years ago and I hate being idle. I sew and do one craft show a year (attendance is approx 30,000 people over 2 days). I also refinish old furniture and sell my items at a local Mercantile. This is all in addition to cooking meals, cleaning house, taking care of our 4 dogs and anything else that no one wants to do. I stay busy!

I am hoping to pick up tips on anything that will help me figure out why our Rooster is so evil toward humans. Red is pretty good with protecting his "flock" but hates my guts. He attacks me (and my husband) at every opportunity. I will post my questions in the appropriate spot once I get the hang of this but wanted to comment on this because it drives me crazy.

I've also attached a picture of Momma and the 1st baby chicken that I thought was adorable! I didn't know babies would sit on the Mom's like this but I'm learning.

Thank you for allowing me to join and I hope to gain a ton of chicken knowledge!
 

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Hello and welcome to BYC! :frow

Congrats on your new flock! Your rooster is doing his job, protecting his flock, its built into their brains. Some boys tolerate humans around his girls and others not so much. Your rooster obviously sees you as danger to his harem and he will never stop being aggressive toward you. You don't need a rooster if you just want to keep hens for pets and eggs. Roosters are great if you want fertile eggs however. Roosters can do you great harm, keeping chickens should be fun, you shouldn't have to look over your shoulder to see if the rooster is challenging you. I'd rehome him.

Best wishes with your flock! And ask as many questions as needed. Welcome to our community!
 
Hello and welcome to BYC! :frow Glad you joined.
I love it when the chicks get up on their mother's backs like that!
Red is just human aggressive. Something happened along the way in his development that made him think that humans were a threat and needed to be dealt with accordingly. If you don't want to work towards rehabilitating him, I would just rehome him or permit somebody to put him in their freezer.
I have a rooster that flogged me hundreds of times in the early days. He is now 6.5 years old and we get along just fine. It took a very long time to rehabilitate him.
 
Triffic intro and love the photo, I feel I’ve known you years 🥰
Welcome to the crazy world of chicken addicts, we are all learning all the time.
I’ve learned so much from this site and been advised and supported by the lovely people who help when things don’t go according to plan,
Bienvenue from France 🇫🇷
Hugz
 

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