Rooster attack - will it happen again?

[JeffPeck]

My daughters watched my Wyandotte rooster “rip the back off” an Orpington hen. They have lots of space and rooster is about one year old. The rooster has always basically left the Orpington hens alone, the Orpington were here first and are 2yo. Will my rooster do this again? What may have caused this sudden attack. He doesn’t even mate with the orpingtons, it’s like I have two flicks. He’s also recently started chasing one of my daughters who’s 11.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

He doesn’t even mate with the orpingtons, it’s like I have two flicks. He’s also recently started chasing one of my daughters who’s 11.

Hi there, welcome to BYC!

He did this specifically because he is not mating with them. Maybe because they won't submit. He is now trying to take over control of the yard. What caused it suddenly... maybe a rush of springtime hormones that have increase both his confidence and his stupidity.

Chasing of your daughter will escalate. She needs to stop running from him and not turn her back on him.

Sorry you face this! You're gonna get a whole slew of eat him or dispatch him to lots of training advice. Folks are fairly passionate about rooster on here... which at 11 months old he still has some maturing to do. He may improve with some encouragement or not... ALL animals hit a hormonal phase where they test their boundaries. Hopefully he will learn to mind his.

 

[Chicken Heel]

As I have stated on several similar threads, I have only had one truly demonic rooster in my 50+ years of raising chickens. But I do have a young Black Australorp rooster that is currently trying my patience. He is with a mixed flock of twelve large breed hens and is good with them but I have to pay attention to him very closely when in the coop gathering eggs. Yesterday he came up the ramp and flogged my leg. I then held him down with my muck boot for about a minute until he relented.

 

[chickens really]

Time to get rid of that Rooster. I would never tolerate bad behaviour.

 

[Chicken Heel]

Time to get rid of that Rooster. I would never tolerate bad behaviour.

He may not survive next week as my wife will be taking care of the chickens due to a business trip I'll be on. She rung the neck of a RIR rooster that I had years ago for attacking her while gathering eggs. I was out of town at the time.

 

[cassie]

There is nothing like a long hot soothing bath with onions, peppercorns, and garlic to cure an aggressive rooster.

 

[Folly's place]

Welcome!
Your hens deserve better, and so does your daughter. He might be hormonal, but so are other polite adolescents, and he's shown you who he really is.
Invite him to dinner, and raise a better cockerel or two this year.
Mary

 

[waddlehead]

Well maybe there is a reason they rejected him.. I have seen roos that the hens didn't take to before but I've never heard of that.. I wouldn't keep him myself. I hear the personality of chicks often comes from the roo.. That would be a resounding no to me...

 

[50-45-1]

My daughters watched my Wyandotte rooster “rip the back off” an Orpington hen. They have lots of space and rooster is about one year old. The rooster has always basically left the Orpington hens alone, the Orpington were here first and are 2yo. Will my rooster do this again? What may have caused this sudden attack. He doesn’t even mate with the orpingtons, it’s like I have two flicks. He’s also recently started chasing one of my daughters who’s 11.

Its a small sampling of what the future holds. Why exactly do you want a rooster?
There are nice roosters out there. But even they are a crap shoot around small children.
I also had a nice one for 4 years, then one day he flew and knocked my 2 year old over by hitting her in the back of the head. No aggresion twards anyone before that. My husband immediatly got his pistol and solved that problem.

 

[Peppercorngal]

A rooster who is aggressive to humans needs to go. He has no respect for the people who feed him and care for him and he will not change. I know, lots of folks say you can train a rooster who attacks to stop it, but my experience says that's horsesh*t. He will not get better, he'll get worse. Eat him or sell him to the feed store (letting them know he is not nice) and move on. If you want a rooster get a nice one or raise one. This is the worst rooster I ever had and he attacked me one day in front of my dog. My dog immediately grabbed him and ran up the hill with him. I never saw him again and was quite happy that I wouldn't be bloodied anymore! Your children are in danger and visitors as well. It's a great liability that you do not need, GET RID OF HIM NOW!