Mean Rooster, not getting better.

[Sublight]

We have a rooster that we raised from a chick. This chicken was incubated, hatched, and hand fed for the first 8 weeks of his life. So this chicken has had a lot of attention.
He started getting mildly aggressive when he was a adolescent (I forget the term). He would put his wing on the ground and run around us in circles. We just ignored it. Then he started attacking us.

Things we have tried.
First we tried catching him and walking around holding him by the feet. It worked at first, but then stopped working.
Then we had to start carrying a stick with us when we went in the pen.
Then I began giving him a "Attitude adjustment" with that big stick, or my foot because he just wouldn't stop.
I started chasing him and he seemed to get the picture.

Now for the real problem.
He bowed up to my 2 year old baby girl the other day while free ranging. Is there anything else I can try? Otherwise im going to kill and eat him.

 

[bradymars]

Yeah, he's been ruined best to cull and soup him. You don't want your baby to get hit in the face and injure an eye. Manfighters should always be culled as there not right in the head and you don't need the hastle

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Completely agree with @bradymars. That boy needs to have a nice hot bath, with a sprig of rosemary and some thyme. Or maybe you will feel better ramming a can of beer up his butt and throwing him on the BBQ.

 

[bradymars]

I like the beer up the butt idea lol

 

[chickens really]

I think its time to cull him...If he ever attacks your little girl he can scar her for life...roosters attack and usually won't back down...
Never free range him when little people are outside...

 

[Folly's place]

I agree with all the above! He'll hurt someone, and can severely injure a child, and needs to be dinner. ASAP! Cage him or isolate him somehow to prevent more injuries, until he's either buried or cooked. Mary

 

[mechanic57]

When they drop their wing and go in a circle, that is their mating dance. When they do that, the hens will either squat down and let the rooster mount, or they will run away. I had a rooster that the hens ran from all the time so he had to chase them down and jump on their back to mate with them. Then he did the dance after they mated. The rooster seemed faster than all the hens so he always caught them. They never figured out that if they jump up onto a fence post, railing or something off the ground, he couldn't mount them.

Anyway, aggressive roosters go to freezer camp.

 

[Folly's place]

Cocks 'dance' for their ladies, and a cock or cockerel who dances for humans is a confused bird, often heading toward human aggression. Mary

 

[bradymars]

My Asils will dance around me and flirt when I snap my fingers and there very tame.

 

[Folly's place]

Good to know! My non-game cockerels don't dance for me, and the ones who have, often turned out to be man fighters. If I only wanted one cock, it would be a large tall game bird!!! Mary