My rooster tries to fight me

[SerrarGett]

This is the video I got the technique from.

 

[DobieLover]

Are there any children that he could harm? If so, he should go immediately.
If you don't want to deal with a rehabilitation, get rid of him either by butchering him yourself or advertising him as human aggressive so the only people that will contact you about him are looking for future freezer contents.
If you want to work with him, the following worked for me but it took nearly a year to get my rooster to the point that I completely trust him.
We've had a bit over a year of peace and I only rehabbed him because he is a terrific rooster in every other way. I now consider him perfect.
Enter wearing tough fabric pants, leather boots and a long sleeve tough coat.
Calmly go about your business ignoring both him and the hens but keep your eye on him.
When he attacks let him tire himself out while you slowly keep walking into him. Do not hold up your feet at him. He will consider this an attack on him. BTDT.
When you never react to his floggings and actually move toward him instead of run away from him, he will eventually realize attacking you doesn't work.
Hurting or scaring him will make him attack you when you aren't looking.
Sometimes when I saw an attack was imminent, I'd quickly reach down and squash him to the ground then scoop him up and set him on my knee and just talk quietly to him and stroke his neck and back until he calmed down. I could tell during the first few times I did this that he was terrified of me.
He eventually stopped all signs of trying to dominate me and now we get along just fine. I feed him raisins from my hand daily. He gives away most of them to his girls and will eat a few for himself.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

This was the video that worked for me back when my roo was aggressive. I didn't quite pin him down like this guy did in the video, but I went in there consistantly picked him up pet him. He quickly stopped attacking me, and now him and I are best buds.

 

[KingD]

A lot of people have found luck with when he tries to fight you peck him on the head.

How does a human peck a chicken?
I'm genuinely Interested

 

[EmmaRainboe]

How does a human peck a chicken?
I'm genuinely Interested

Haha, you put your fingers together so they kind of look like a big beak, then you "peck" them on the head.

 

[KingD]

Haha, you put your fingers together so they kind of look like a big beak, then you "peck" them on the head.

Ok....I will begin practicing.
So, fingers together and then tap tap on the head....I think I've mastered it already.

 

[roosterhavoc]

If that actually worked in the video that rooster wouldn’t have been pecking him unless of course that was the first time he did it in which case he shouldn’t be putting out videos.

 

[BunnyEberhart]

This is the video I got the technique from.

It works great. My boy was a jerk now he is my cuddle bug.

 

[Sally PB]

Do not hold up your feet at him. He will consider this an attack on him. BTDT.

Suggestions for when he attacks, but then backs up out of range? Should I advance and "peck?"

He's never come up from behind; always from the front or side (like today, grrrr!) Then he moves away, fast. He is always faster than I.

Once I was able to peck him hard enough that he squawked. He was a good boy for a few days after that. I don't know what I did this morning to set him off. It might have been the blue stripes on the Ziploc bag that held the treats. Blue definitely gets him upset.

 

[DobieLover]

Suggestions for when he attacks, but then backs up out of range? Should I advance and "peck?"

He's never come up from behind; always from the front or side (like today, grrrr!) Then he moves away, fast. He is always faster than I.

Once I was able to peck him hard enough that he squawked. He was a good boy for a few days after that. I don't know what I did this morning to set him off. It might have been the blue stripes on the Ziploc bag that held the treats. Blue definitely gets him upset.

Who got the treats?
When I was in the early days of working with my boy, I gave him all the treats and he gave them to the girls. If you feed HIS hens treats, you are a threat. You are trying to woo his hens.
If you see him coming to attack turn and face him and walk towards him. Remember to come to the battle with your armour on and remember that he's just a 6 or 7 pound bird. If you are properly dressed he can wail away on you and it doesn't hurt a bit. If he's getting close enough to you to flog you, you should be able to grab him. I caught my guy in mid air once. The look on his face was priceless.
If he flogs and backs up, walk towards him. Don't chase. The point you're trying to make is that you are not a threat he needs to defend against, you aren't going to hurt him and that his flogging you makes you come towards him instead of run away.
This is how I worked with my bird. Others use the 'put the fear of god into him' approach. I don't do that. I'd rather work to understand where he's coming from and learn new behaviors.
Lots of people have no interest in working with some of these boys and I'm sure there are some that can't be rehabbed. I've only had one rooster give me hell and I rehabbed him. His sons never showed the same tendencies.