My naked neck rooster is not nice!!

[hd_darcy]

Thank you.. I just got off the phone with my DH who straight up admitted "I like the rooster". I don't think he realized that they could do some serious damage tho. So... we will either get our run finished and pen him up, or get rid of him. I'm sure it will be very hard to re-home him now considering he's just a few months old, so he's not breeding yet, and he's way past cute chick stage! I imagine he'll be someone's meal...sigh... Oh well, I must get used to it if I'm having chickens, right?!

 

[Whitehouse Quail]

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Wow, haven't heard that one before!

 

[AHappychick]

there are nice ones and ones that arent. I really feel as though personality of the parents has a lot to do with whether the offspring is friendly and docile. My best advise is hatch or get a boy from a very friendly flock, once you have a nice roo you will just adore him. A lot of handeling helps as well. Because I would bring the boys in and out everyday to keep the crowing from bothering anyone in the mornings it was easy to tell who was nice and who was not. Originally when I started my flocks I ate all mean boys and kept the sweet ones. Now they are the sires of my flocks and all my offspring seem to be nice as well. I havent had to cull for personality in a year or more. Size also does not matter as a bantam can be just as mean as a lf roo. Actually Marty my favorite roo is so sweet that people come just to visit and meet him and Melina is going to borrow him for a TV thing

here is a pic of him in all his glory, dont let the mean look fool you as he is a big teddy bear with feathers.

 

[hd_darcy]

Aww, I so want a nice rooster! "Beaker" was handled a ton as a baby. He got the most attention out of most of them. Once he got to big to carry around, he still got attention, just not carried around. I do know that his brother also turned out to be mean. Must be in their blood. Sad thing is my son got him from school from incubated eggs!

 

[ThePolishPrincess]

Ahh, just going through the same thing. Get rid of him. Your son is more important than an unworthy rooster. You seem able to provide a nice, loving, warm home for your pets (I think of mine the same way!). You shouldn't feel limited to ever take on more given the fact that you own a mean rooster. Not all roosters are mean. Some of them are just fueled by more instinct than others, and for the wrong reasons. Your son is very ovbiously not a threat.

I had a rooster I hatched from an egg, loved, spoiled, and planned to keep as long as he lived. Dash was a very nice boy for a while. Then, he went after my 7 year old brother, not once, but twice, in a row, right in front of my whole family. Not long before, he had started to pick fights with me, too, but it was never so bad. I told myself that I could not subject my brother to dealing with my roudy rooster. Dashie met his end by the hands of some neighbors down the street. Made me sick to think that my beautiful little boy became what he did. But a bad memory was replaced with a happy one. And now we have Rocky to take care of our flock and exhibit what a rooster should be: loving, protective, but still laid back.

You know where I, as well as many who have responded to this thread, and others who have not, stand. I have tried dealing with it and even fixing it, but a bad rooster is not broken, just tainted. It might take a few tries, or none at all, but you can stumble upon the best of roosters, even when you don't plan to. I won Rocky at a fair and thought he would be like all the others. He surprised everyone, and continues to do so.

 

[red roo]

the rooster is doing his job,i would prob pen my sons pet so he can hold it and pet it in a confined area and make my children leav the yard birds alone. if you have a rooster that wont defend his girls when they free range you have a useless bird ,he will try to fight off preditors to or atleast make a rucas. this makes the kids-hubby and you happy , and if the rooster has floged him already i dont think you will explain it

he knows. give it a try you got nothing to loose if it dont work let him fall on a hatchet while your son is at school "ACCIDENT"

 

[pkw]

I haven't ever had a mean turken. All of mine has always been nice even my turken rooster that I had. I had some mean easter eggers that no longer here. My new hampshire cockerels was getting aggressive towards me but I let them know I was the boss chicken so I can get in to feed and water them but my husband won't even approach them. They are now letting my daughter approach them a little but I had to teach my daughter how to approach them (she is 15 years old).

If its between me and whoever goes into the chicken yard with me or the rooster a ready to tear us up then the rooster is going to lose. I know they are doing their job but if you can't go in to feed, water and collect eggs without getting attacked, then you do away with the rooster. I love roosters. Any that is too aggressive can just be made into a nice dinner though.

 

[red roo]

if he comes to the other side of the yard to get you thats 1 thing but when you turn them out to free range let him be the boss of your gals.when they go out the pen is empty so no one is in the pen ,chickens doing there thing, you doing yours. there is allways a solution . i had a rooster that could not keep order in the hen house and was all about saving his own but and theheck with the girls ,but verry sweet "HAD TO GO" i allso had 1 that would run all the way across the yard to get me "HAD TO GO" but a rooster that is aggresive about his girls that is a good 1, better hang on to him wish i had 1 like that

 

[chickenGRAFFITI]

I would definitely give him time. If he is not old enought to breed yet then his personality might change. I had a silkie roo that was agressive as a teenager and turned out to be the best sweetest rooster of all. I would try to make sure he knows you are the flock leader.

 

[hd_darcy]

Interesting about having one that was more aggresive as a teenager! Thank you also for sharing that.

So, tonight I went out to close the coop up and he sat there making his sounds like he always does. I went to pet him.. which I usually do, and he pecked my hand...HARD.. Well, I continued to pet him and he continued to peck my hand... I was trying to show him that his pecking wasn't going to stop me from petting him (maybe I shouldn't have done that

..but I'm stubborn too!) I scolded him a bit, and then he finally left his roost. I think he's getting braver though! I thought maybe he thought I was feeding him as my son feeds him treats all the time, but I'm pretty sure he was pecking me to peck me..GRRR...

Will update, but I think I will feel safer if the grumpy roo is gone!