3SiameseCats
Songster
We have had Goat since he was a chick, along with his brother, Lucky. Lucky is a super sweet rooster and gets along well with Goat, despite our small adult hen flock, due to him being more submissive. He has never been a problem. Except Goat. Goat, as of recently, has started attacking me and both my parents. We know roosters can be fisty and are not to be had around children and such, but we don’t know why he feels threatened by us sometimes. He doesn’t always attack, but I have to be careful how I move around him to make sure he doesn’t go at me and to block any attack he makes. I’ve been using my foot to block which seems to work, as well as jumping back, but I’m not sure if i should be doing that or not. Knowing what I know about general animal behavior, I need to let Goat not “win” in his mind because that reinforces that he can do it again and that it’s an appropriate behavior.