My 11 month old Plymoth Rock Rooster has attacked a few times but he isn't aggressive enough to do any harm yet.
I figured out a sure fire way to get him to attack is to wear running shoes with night time reflectors sewn into them.
He will always go after them unexpectedly. Beware of what you have on your feet. The reflectors are usually on the heel part of the shoe so beware of sneak attacks form behind. He surprised me once.
When he does his head down and cape flared stance I, as gently as possible, get my foot up under hs chest and flip him in the air, he has actually done a complete flip a few times, when he lands you can almost see the stars circling around his head like in the cartoons and to quote someone else in this thread, he walks away talking to himself.
My wife has tangled with him a couple of times and she carries a 12 oz. watter bottle with a couple of holes drilled into the cap, when he gets in an agressive stance she squirts him with the water bottle, she gets about 8' of distance with a good stream of water. That is usually enough to cool him off for a while.
Odd thing is when he is on the roost in the coop you can pet, hug, touch, tickle him and he seems to enjoy it. When he is off the roost and doing his job he is completely different, doesn't have any time for distractions, no matter how nice they may be, except for scratch.
I have had a couple of staring contests with him and that seems to calm him down for a while, I even held his waddle one time and stared him down, just to assert my alpha position, these are all temporary fixes though. I don't think my rooster will ever end up in the crock pot, even if I have to wear chaps when I go into the pen and I don't have children in my house to worry about.
I figured out a sure fire way to get him to attack is to wear running shoes with night time reflectors sewn into them.
He will always go after them unexpectedly. Beware of what you have on your feet. The reflectors are usually on the heel part of the shoe so beware of sneak attacks form behind. He surprised me once.
When he does his head down and cape flared stance I, as gently as possible, get my foot up under hs chest and flip him in the air, he has actually done a complete flip a few times, when he lands you can almost see the stars circling around his head like in the cartoons and to quote someone else in this thread, he walks away talking to himself.
My wife has tangled with him a couple of times and she carries a 12 oz. watter bottle with a couple of holes drilled into the cap, when he gets in an agressive stance she squirts him with the water bottle, she gets about 8' of distance with a good stream of water. That is usually enough to cool him off for a while.
Odd thing is when he is on the roost in the coop you can pet, hug, touch, tickle him and he seems to enjoy it. When he is off the roost and doing his job he is completely different, doesn't have any time for distractions, no matter how nice they may be, except for scratch.
I have had a couple of staring contests with him and that seems to calm him down for a while, I even held his waddle one time and stared him down, just to assert my alpha position, these are all temporary fixes though. I don't think my rooster will ever end up in the crock pot, even if I have to wear chaps when I go into the pen and I don't have children in my house to worry about.
