Choices are:
1. accept the aggressiveness, kids not allowed in the yard.
2. Fricassee the fool, as in cull him out permanently
3. Teach him to respect humans.
That last one is where many people go off the rails. Roosters understand dominance. Let them think they are boss and they will harass you mercilessly. Prove to them that they are NOT boss and they will respect the boundaries. The only way I've been consistently able to show them I am boss is by knocking them down and then hitting them until they get up and run from me. The key is that they must run from you. At that point, they have accepted that you are dominant. Some roosters can be trained by gentler means. Others can only be trained by the knock em down and hit them until they run measure. It sounds vicious. In a way it is. The alternative is either accept the floggings or fricassee the fool. I'm not putting up with a rooster that prevents children from playing in the yard and I don't like fricasseeing a rooster I have planned for breeding. Better to teach him to respect me.
1. accept the aggressiveness, kids not allowed in the yard.
2. Fricassee the fool, as in cull him out permanently
3. Teach him to respect humans.
That last one is where many people go off the rails. Roosters understand dominance. Let them think they are boss and they will harass you mercilessly. Prove to them that they are NOT boss and they will respect the boundaries. The only way I've been consistently able to show them I am boss is by knocking them down and then hitting them until they get up and run from me. The key is that they must run from you. At that point, they have accepted that you are dominant. Some roosters can be trained by gentler means. Others can only be trained by the knock em down and hit them until they run measure. It sounds vicious. In a way it is. The alternative is either accept the floggings or fricassee the fool. I'm not putting up with a rooster that prevents children from playing in the yard and I don't like fricasseeing a rooster I have planned for breeding. Better to teach him to respect me.