Rooster attacked Grandson

[Florida Bullfrog]

I agree, I had to evade a satanic RIR rooster when I was a kid. The demon lived out his life just fine. I have never had a RIR chicken because of it! I don't need this BCM either.

My great great aunt and uncle also had an evil RIR. They never had children and didn’t mind him attacking too much. I believe that human aggression is generally caused by imprinting on humans as chicks and therefore can span a range of breeds. But I believe RIRs uniquely have it bred into them.

 

[Tired old Rooster]

Here is the solution.

 

[Nashv755]

My great great aunt and uncle also had an evil RIR. They never had children and didn’t mind him attacking too much. I believe that human aggression is generally caused by imprinting on humans as chicks and therefore can span a range of breeds. But I believe RIRs uniquely have it bred into them.

Nah it's more to do with people overlooking and not correcting bad behavior when they start showing breeding behavior and say "that's what roosters do" until they start attacking. Then all of a sudden it's an aggressive roo, he just turned on us.

 

[Nashv755]

My great great aunt and uncle also had an evil RIR. They never had children and didn’t mind him attacking too much. I believe that human aggression is generally caused by imprinting on humans as chicks and therefore can span a range of breeds. But I believe RIRs uniquely have it bred into them.

Imprinting like this?

 

[user651618]

I'd cull that roo immediately. Side note, my 71 year old dad still has a gnarly scar on the back of his head from a leghorn rooster when he was six.

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

Nah it's more to do with people overlooking and not correcting bad behavior when they start showing breeding behavior and say "that's what roosters do" until they start attacking. Then all of a sudden it's an aggressive roo, he just turned on us.

Imprinting at chickhood when they first hatch. They get their wires crossed and can’t discern a human from a rival rooster. It can’t be fixed once it happens. A rooster that can be corrected was never seriously human aggressive to begin with. You can’t correct a mental defect. And yes, if a rooster thinks you’re a rival rooster to flog, that’s a mental defect.

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

Imprinting like this?View attachment 3601387

Whatever you call that, that’s not imprinting.

 

[Tired old Rooster]

Imprinting at chickhood when they first hatch. They get their wires crossed and can’t discern a human from a rival rooster. It can’t be fixed once it happens. A rooster that can be corrected was never seriously human aggressive to begin with. You can’t correct a mental defect. And yes, if a rooster thinks you’re a rival rooster to flog, that’s a mental defect.

Seems a problem with artificial incubation?

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

Seems a problem with artificial incubation?

That’s what I believe.

I have received multiple “man fighter” roosters and bred them. Their offspring, grand offspring, great offspring, ect. don’t exhibit the trait when raised on my farm. If sent off farm as hatching eggs, they may become “man fighters.” The common denominator seems to be artificial incubation and close coddling in early chickhood. On my farm, they’re either hen raised or (if artificially incubated) hatched in a dark barn where I only interact with the new chicks behind a flash light. I make myself an object of fear instead of comfort to them. Then later they begin to associate me as the bringer of sustenance, but I’m never a mother to them.

In artificial incubation, degrees of presence, contact, and handling vary between people and batches of chicks. Furthermore, the imprinting instinct is stronger or weaker between breeds and individuals. I think all of these variables contribute to the apparent randomness of when roosters grow into being man fighters. It appears random because the variables make imprinting sporadic. But I have little doubt imprinting is the cause. In birds less domesticated than chickens, such as heritage domestic turkeys, imprinting is much more obvious and predictable, resulting in gobblers that want to fight humans and hens that want to be bred by humans.

 

[Nashv755]

Whatever you call that, that’s not imprinting.

3mo Belgian game cockerel that I hatched. He follows me around like a lost puppy and jumped up in my lap on his own and took a nap. I also have a hen that imprinted on me and she brings her chicks to me 1st day off the nest when she hatches a clutch.