Rooster question regarding Pinless Peepers

[Weeg]

My advice to you, blunt, but fair under the circumstances, is if you believe that kicking any creature and then stewing them if they don't respond favorably is a constructive and caring solution to any problem, you should immediately abandon your self appointed role as animal behaviour advisor and learn to mind your own business.

I will certainly help put him in his place! Thank you everyone! Otherwise I do want to say that I am not planning on kicking him repeatedly as a solution, but kicking him is just the first thing I know do if I were to get attacked by a rooster. I also know that the ideas listed in my first post were not ideal, and that is why I am posting, because I need more ideas. I have also looked at other posts about aggressive roosters and slot of the feedback said stew pot. Otherwise the only way I have changed an aggressive rooster is when I accidentally gave him hypothermia while treating him for mites, and saved him, but obviously I wouldn’t do that again. I just want to help out my freind, all feedback is welcome, but I would appreciate it if you wouldn’t shoot me down Shadarch. Thanks to everyone else for all the feedback! Avery

 

[Chicalina]

My rooster challenged me a few weeks ago and attacked my son (justifiably defending his flock). After using some tough-love behaviour modification techniques, he is now rather timid and hasn't been a problem since. Here he is hiding in the coop while I give the hens some treats today. He chose to not come out and share but just watch from the doorway. I've never kicked or hit him. He re-learned to respect me after I reminded him where he stood.

 

[Weeg]

Thank you so much, @Chicalina ! I will certainly try your techniques! I really hop ether work because he is a sweety to the hens! I am not fond of stew potting and chickens rooster or not, but sometimes it has to be done. We have had some VICIOUS bantam roos, that would chase kids around until they drew blood if you even got close to the coop, so this rooster will be easier then dealing with them! Thanks again, Avery

 

[Chicalina]

Thank you so much, @Chicalina ! I will certainly try your techniques! I really hop ether work because he is a sweety to the hens! I am not fond of stew potting and chickens rooster or not, but sometimes it has to be done. We have had some VICIOUS bantam roos, that would chase kids around until they drew blood if you even got close to the coop, so this rooster will be easier then dealing with them! Thanks again, Avery

You are welcome, and I hope it works for you. I am of the view that the key to managing natural animal behaviour (which we find unacceptable) is to try and understand what is going on in their minds. Some will say that is namby pamby and just shoot/eat/get rid. That is their opinion and up to them. I don't believe any animal, bar humans of course, can truly be evil. They are just animals being themselves. The problem is usually us and our expectations of them or from the situation that WE put those animals in.

For example, my rooster perceived in his head that my son would hurt his hens (he was chasing them), so the rooster defended them. If it was a hawk I would be celebrating, but because it was my child then it was unacceptable to me. So I had to put a stop to that behaviour, and I needed to understand how to get the rooster to accept my son as a safe person, and also as higher than him in the pecking order. I did this by educating my son about HIS behaviour and helping the two to build a bond by my son feeding him and stroking him while I held the rooster. He doesn’t like being caught and held, because it dimishes his status, but he relaxes after a few minutes. It has worked a treat so far. Plus, my son has learned to respect the rooster's natural behaviour.

Just my experience which might help. He is a bantam too btw!

 

[Emmeran]

The problem is usually us and our expectations of them or from the situation that WE put those animals in.

Very astutely and nicely put, I do agree with everything said. (understanding that there will always be that very rare outlier which was mis-wired at birth, but those are exceedingly unusual.)

Additionally: Kicking a chicken.

When you kick a rooster you aren't actually supposed to strike the bird with devastating force. The goal is to catch the bird with your foot and toss it as far as you can with your kicking motion. You should not harm the bird with this maneuver and it is simply a display of power. You need to be under emotional control when you do this.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Keep in mind that you are the Goddess of their little world:

You created this little sub-world they live in.
You are the bringer of food.
You are also the bringer of water.
You can be the bringer of the hose if someone gets belligerent.
You are also the cooker of rooster if someone is mean.

As an alpha-male I have no problem facing down a rooster and reminding them that I will happily eat their liver in a gravy over mashed potatoes.
(but I'll do that with a Bull or a Boar also).

Your attitude and the Hose should correct all troubles you face...

If an aggressive rooster thought like a human that might actually work. Lol

 

[Chicalina]

If an aggressive rooster thought like a human that might actually work. Lol

The problem with chickens is that they can't think ahead. They live in the moment. So respond and react to whatever is in front of them at the time.

Its a shame that they sometimes do things that are not in their own best interests (like flogging their owner and risking the pot!)

 

[aart]

Has more to do with the keepers behaviors than the cockerels.

 

[Chicalina]

Has more to do with the keepers behaviors than the cockerels.

I always think this about dogs that are aggressive. Often it has gone too far for the dog to be saved, because they have bitten someone badly. It is almost always the owner's fault, not the dog's.

I saw a thread recently about a neighbour's dog roaming around free and who took someone's chicken. The chicken keeper was told to trap and shoot the dog. I'm thinking poor dog, it's owner should have kept it contained in its own yard. It is not the dog's fault, it is only being a dog!

I was glad to hear they got the sheriff to collect it.

 

[Weeg]

I always think this about dogs that are aggressive. Often it has gone too far for the dog to be saved, because they have bitten someone badly. It is almost always the owner's fault, not the dog's.

I saw a thread recently about a neighbour's dog roaming around free and who took someone's chicken. The chicken keeper was told to trap and shoot the dog. I'm thinking poor dog, it's owner should have kept it contained in its own yard. It is not the dog's fault, it is only being a dog!

I was glad to hear they got the sheriff to collect it.

OMG, why would someone even suggest shooting it, thats terrible! I am talking to my friend now, and we are making a plan to transform him into a loving boy again! Thanks, Avery