Either way there’s no issue I just don’t agree with you. If whatever you are doing works for you by all means do it. Everyone has a different setup, amount of birds, big yard, small yard etc and it all makes a difference. There’s really not a one size fits all approach.
Doesn't make it right....but I'm an old school forumer.
You're not helping. I want to get off this subject, that's why I left.
As usual, I’m late to the party, but I’ll share my opinion anyway. I agree with Sourland. Your “rooster” is actually an immature cockerel, full of hormones and his behavior needs to be nipped. When my cockerels are old enough for me to know that they are cockerels, I stop handling them. I move with confidence when I’m around them. I walk through them to get where I want to be. I keep an eye on them and if one starts to move aggressively toward me, I will walk towards that bird and back him up. Sometimes I will just move them away from the food or water because I can. I don’t turn my back on them when they start feeling their oats. When I do get to that point, I don’t fully trust them at first. If one sneaks up behind me, I will turn around and walk toward it - again, making him move. I have not had a human aggressive rooster since I started raising them that way. He is not in charge, and he respects my space. I will not keep a rooster who is too stupid to figure out that I am not a predator. If he’s busy stalking me, he’s not doing his job.
Calling a rooster stupid is kind of ironic. You proved my whole point thanks.
What point would that be? I started just skimming somewhere in the middle of the first page. Correction - I made it through page 2 before I got lost.
The point is roosters don’t think like a human. Sure there’s aggressive roosters out there but most have been made that way inadvertently by the way they were raised, handled, or whatever.
I also agree. Where I differ with most is how that rooster got to that point in the first place.
