My rooster attacks visitors

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I used to have a few aggressive roosters in my rooster-only flock. I could handle them, and they rarely, if ever, attacked me because I didn’t show fear. And if they tried to attack I wouldn’t run, and I wouldn’t get hurt either because I would always wear long pants and large boots around them. However, I never let them attack visitors because they were my roosters, my responsibility, and it would be incredibly unfair to make the visitors deal with them. So, to prevent any attacks from happening, I always kept them penned whenever I knew I was going to have visitors. And if someone came over unannounced, I would go out and catch the aggressive roosters to pen them.

If you truly want to keep your rooster, I would definitely recommend penning him whenever you have visitors. This means you’ll have to learn how to be unafraid of him, and you’ll have to learn how to handle him and watch his cues to avoid getting hurt. Unfortunately, even if you’re able to train him to stop being aggressive to you and your husband, he could still be aggressive towards people he doesn’t know, as they’re new and thus aren’t dominant to him.

 

[JuliaSunshine]

Thank you for all the advice.
I managed to get brave enough to pet him and pick him up because I didn't want him to get killed.
So now I can pick him up whenever I want and he's quite docile when I do it. He pecked my hand once when I was petting him but I picked him up right away and scolded him.
I don't pet him too much as he doesn't seem to like it but I do it sometimes so he gets used to being handled.
When visitors come I put him in the coop. My property is in a very remote area. No passerbys.
I also noticed the rooster kicks my husband because my husband tends to walk or work around the chickens without slowing down enough.
The rooster must've been worried about my husband stepping on one of his ladies.
Since my husband started to talk to the chickens to move away and to walk more carefully, the rooster acts a lot more calm around my husband. He probably just wanted to warn my husband to be careful.
I think he kicked our visitor as he was also walking fast near the hens.
I'll keeping watching him and try to train him to trust visitors as well. I have only one neighbor that comes to our property.

 

[SourRoses]

my husband tends to walk or work around the chickens without slowing down enough.

Nope, sorry, that's not a thing.
I could run around in circles in my chickens yards and none of our roosters would attack me (because I get rid of mean ones early).

The rooster must've been worried about my husband stepping on one of his ladies.
Since my husband started to talk to the chickens to move away and to walk more carefully, the rooster acts a lot more calm around my husband. He probably just wanted to warn my husband to be careful.

You are ascribing human motivations to an animal. While they're pretty smart, chickens have no foresight. He doesn't think about other chickens toes unless they are screaming in pain.
Roosters attack to claim and retain territory. He thinks the hens are his property.
His intention is to inflict enough damage and pain that you go away, or die, and he doesn't care which.
Because again, chickens have no foresight, he wouldn't be missing your feed providing duties until he was hungry and couldn't find anything to eat.
There are no love bites. He means it when he bites you.

When his spurs grow in, which are sharp talons on his inner legs, the flogging behavior ("kicking") will draw blood on people's legs.
There was a recent item in the news about a guy who was killed when his roosters spur nicked his femoral artery. Bled out all alone.

 

[mcdze]

ive been through so many roosters .. theyll piss me off and ill whack them with a shovel or shoot them .. ive also spent ALOT of effort training a rooster to be cooperative and then he gets himself killed, wasted time .. best plan of attack to date is get a 'smaller' rooster .. i got a little banty leghorn amongst other things im sure, mix, atm. he's about hen size lol and a fraidy cat with people .. never kicked me, but he sounds off at danger whi h is fine, and he does his manly duty heheh, definitely ok with the girls ... but yeah, smaller is better, not near as aggressive as a big full size rooster ..

 

[nuthatched]

ive been through so many roosters .. theyll piss me off and ill whack them with a shovel or shoot them .. ive also spent ALOT of effort training a rooster to be cooperative and then he gets himself killed, wasted time .. best plan of attack to date is get a 'smaller' rooster .. i got a little banty leghorn amongst other things im sure, mix, atm. he's about hen size lol and a fraidy cat with people .. never kicked me, but he sounds off at danger whi h is fine, and he does his manly duty heheh, definitely ok with the girls ... but yeah, smaller is better, not near as aggressive as a big full size rooster ..

Bantam sizes can be just as bad if not worse than full size roos. Size doesn't determine temperament.

 

[grizleyguy]

Have husband give him a good kick if the rooster attacks. If he does it again, cook his ass lol

 

[chanceosunshine]

Been through this. Never ended well.

I would name him Stew and move on before you’re more emotionally invested in him.

I also agree that you are thinking of him in human terms. Guaranteed he’s not thinking of your feelings when he’s attacking people.

I’m sorry you’re dealing with this.

 

[JuliaSunshine]

Now I'm not scared of my rooster as he always lets me pick up and even pet him. But he kicks our visitor or my husband once in awhile. Las time he did it, I picked him up right away, yelled at him and locked him up in the coop for a few hours.
He doesn't always kick the visitor who comes regularly to come to help us build a house. So I start to hope that he changed. Then he kicks.
After one two more kicks, I'll have to talk to my husband about giving him away for someone else's stew. My husband really hates the idea of having him killed even after being kicked.
But if kicked wearing shorts in the summer, he could scratch the skin quite badly.
He's getting friendlier towards me so it's even sadder.

 

[JuliaSunshine]

Have husband give him a good kick if the rooster attacks. If he does it again, cook his ass lol

My husband holds him down on the ground when he kicks. Then he's fine for awhile and kicks again when we think he got better.
Stupid bird...

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Bantam sizes can be just as bad if not worse than full size roos. Size doesn't determine temperament.

Yep. Good golly I agree with that. I've had more terror bantams than terror giants so far