Official BYC Poll: What Do You Do With Your Aggressive Roosters?

[Brooks_]

*Other. Yeah, start with hand raising. Maybe even try taming/training. Mine got a grave. I have nothing against eating them. Just with aggression it becomes a little more time sensitive than with a simple harvest.

 

[Mutchi]

I've had "aggressive" roos but then we always save them, we turn them into loving creatures or we learn to live with it...

 

[Mutchi]

I had a nasty rooster. Tried to train him not to attack people but he would not learn. After almost three years he attacked my 3 year old nephew. That was it! He ended in my Brunswick stew!

Is your stew delicious ?

 

[Tashua]

I tried so hard to keep my Roo “Trouble” ,but he just wouldn’t quit - ended up re homing him because I couldn’t bare to eat him - - hubby named him when he was 3 days old & he lived up to his name ....

 

[Mutchi]

I tried so hard to keep my Roo “Trouble” ,but he just wouldn’t quit - ended up re homing him because I couldn’t bare to eat him - - hubby named him when he was 3 days old & he lived up to his name ....

Pretty boy! I had one just like it about 4-5 years ago and he was the sweetheart of course we had saved him so he was a jerk at first but then we treated him like a baby and then "boom" he was a loving little sweetheart ❤.

 

[JedJackson]

For years I would process them, but I just don't have the energy or heart any more. So I give them away to other people who are willing to do the work. I don't think it is right to give aggressive roosters to unsuspecting people, so I'm pretty firm that the takers should use them for food.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

He got one freebie, when he charged me while snatching up hens to weigh them. Then he attacked my wife, while she threw treats to the flock.

That evening, he became sausage. Tasty, if a bit fatty. I should have targeted 22% fat in the sausage, rather than 26-28%, chicken fat is far less firm at room temp than cow or pig fat. Live and learn. Well, I did.

But yes, based on age, either stew or sausage.

Most males I cull before they are old enough to seriously show interest in the girls, so their hormones have not driven them to full aggression, merely dominance displays.

 

[Banana01]

I respect their established pecking order. I have a dutch bantam and another full size rooster that are aggressive, but get along with each other. The two of them rule. Any new rooster that joins the flock gets chased away and I do not interfere. If I worry about the new ones safety, the new rooster is the one put in protective jail, not the established ones. All the new roosters I have had are so gentle and sweet they get chased off, but some have been around a while and get along. I help the new ones by protecring them when I can. Some have been outright rejected and have to free range far away for the day and sneak into sleep at night.

 

[RebeccaRN]

I had an Orpington and an Austrolorp rooster, both got mean and had to go to dinner with a friend of mine.

 

[Perris]

At different times I have culled two roos who were just nasty and creating a lot of stress in the flock; in both cases flock dynamics improved immediately after. I think it must be in their genes, because I currently have 4, aged between 4 years and 8 months, and they are all fine, individually and together. The dom briefly chases the others around the garden every now and then, to show everyone who's boss, but much more often two of them are roaming with the hens while the grand-daddy tends the youngster subflock and the fourth is lounging around elsewhere.