Rooster chased my little girl today

[the1much]

for the next week,, she should ( with you there with her) go into the run and CHASE him, from the get go,,, after a week,, when she comes to the run, he will go to the opposite corner.

 

[Wildsky]

If all else fails, I bet he tastes good with some nice roasted potatoes.

All jokes aside, I have a bantam roo that has chased or attacked my kids at least a few times, he's not really a friendly little booger at the best of times - I've chased him down myself and held him, fed him from my hand and fussed over him after a few of those attacks - so that he knows we humans are not that bad. My kids fed by hand as well while I held him.

(I'm sure he was just a little embarassed in front of his girls being held and babied)

GOod Luck.

 

[Southernbelle]

I like to just sit in the pen with them and watch my chickens be chickens.

I have several roosters, but the top dog is a big gorgeous roo that I love, but I can't turn my back on him. He watches me when I'm in the pen and sometimes you can see that look in their eye that they want to challege you, kinda test your boundaries and he casually gets closer to me and I'll just stand up and take an aggressive stance and he backs down.

 

[cheeptrick]

Mine too WAS a big bully...and we hatched him out and when he started crowing is when we started rehab. He has never attacked my children...because as soon as he started crowing I explained to the children that HE must never be allowed to peck, chase, or dance near them. I also explained that you'd know that he was challenging you because he would stand between you and the hens and he would not allow them to come near you. We would come out with treats and the hens could not come running like usual...then we figured it out because the roo would be in between us and the flock. I explained that if he tried to mate a hen around them...they MUST stamp their feet and charge him...if they can catch HIM grab him and hold him upside down briefly by his legs until he stops struggling and then release him. ALL 3 children have done this to him....EVEN my 4 year old. HE knows whose we are when it comes to us humans. The others in the flock is another story...he chose to peck our smaller chickens so much that he would chase them and corner them and peck them.....MIND me he was not mating them. WE finally put him in a cage INSIDE the coop with the polish...he could see the others but not get at them. We respect him if he respects us...and he does a fine job of holding sentry when his hens are out ranging.

I wish you the most sincere luck...please read Rooster Red's thread!

I'd second Wildsky; by saying Chicken and Dumplings are mighty tasty when rehab fails!

 

[lovemychix]

My 6 yr. old has taken charge...I told her to kick him in the fluffy butt if he charges her....now he's well behaved...teach them that you are the boss....she even tells him..."I'm the boss!!" really loud. She also threatens to dress him up as a baby and tells him we are going to put a "bonnet on it" if he keeps it up, maybe a bib, a diaper, booties, bottle maybe. We are sick...I know! You just have to know our roo!!

 

[OHMYCHICKIES]

the1much : I wouldn't be able to do that because we free range our chickens, they have an acre to run around.


you guys have great ideas!!

 

[dixiechick]

You can discipline the roo by holding him with one hand and bending his head down using his comb. Hold his head like this until he leaves it like this when you release his comb. He should only lift his head when you let him (by lifting his chin). This will NOT scare him or cause him any pain...this communicates to him that you are top roo....and your daughter most definately should do this...he should fear and respect her as a leader!!!

I promise this works..I had to do this with our Old English roo...believe me, he understood. Would hang his head when he knew he was in trouble with me.....

Safety First....or chicken soup....either way, a WIN WIN!

 

[Omran]

Quote:
You did the right thing
I think he will be on my dinner table the vey same day.(but that's just me) I love chickens but I will never let any of my animals became agressive with me or any other human.

 

[blessedchickenmama7]

We have a Maran roo who was a terror for a bit. I tried some of the suggestions here, holding him, feeding him but these were not new since I had been doing that since all the chicks were tiny. But he went through about 4 or 5 weeks of challenging me at a very young age (say 12-16 weeks). I threatened him with stewing. Eventually, I resorted to swatting him with my hand when he started toward me in a way that was threatening, or popping him on the head when he pecked me. We have now worked out our differences. I can hold him and pet him, he doesn't peck or charge, and he doesn't freak out when I hold another chicken. He guards well, though.

Maybe some don't agree with it. And he is just being a rooster. However, to me it is not acceptable that any animal I own dominates me. Either they rehab, or their new home is the stew pot.

 

[mamaKate]

I'm a grandma and I still have scar on my knee from a rooster that spurred me when I was two. My dad used the only method of rooster rehab that he knew-southern fried. Many years later, I had a pair of beautiful mixed color Leghorn roosters who routinely chased my kids. I filed down their spurs and gave the kids sticks. They didn't HIT the birds, just waved them. It worked.