Rooster training

[madmantrapper]

Who has the time to carry a nasty rooster around for what seems like hours. I put my foot up to stop him , each time he comes back I get more aggressive. After the third or fourth time he got the point. I chase him around the yard occassionally to keep him on his toes. Sometimes he will start to attack when I have my back turned but backs off as soon as I turn around. I have two year old granddaughter living here which I worry about. She is not out alone anytime of course. I amm thinking of culling before he scares her and makes her sfrid of the chickens.

 

[emvickrey]

Being aggressive back will only cause him to get worse. I never carried mine around for more than about 10 minutes at a time. But I have nothing but time most days anyway. I go in with my chickens just to make sure they are acting alright and to check feet and for injuries. Make sure every one is eating, who's molting. I have one that has a bald spot on the back of her neck and the others have a tendancy to peck at it so I have to keep an eye to make sure she doesn't get injured. She usually stays away from them anyway. I doubt i'll get fertile eggs from her.

She had the skin torn from one side of her neck to the other and I put it back but it didnt' cover the whole wound so the part it didn't cover will be bald. She did grow skin there but no feathers.

I suggest jail. It has worked for me. I've tried for months to let my young hens out with the others and finally figured out how.

 

[Xero]

That is what my uncle did with his old EE roo, Red. He would carry him around, hold him, and give him treats. He even trained him to ride around on his shoulder and could walk all over the yard.

 

[luvchicks8]

Thanks for all your tips , he is doing better with me but not males I don't know why

 

[shaggy]

Quote:
because you have established yourself as his superior .... they have not

 

[Nwchickma]

I love this thread. I have a Roo who is about 3 months old. I'm adding 2 new chickens with him and his lady. I've let them in the yard together and the last few days, anytime he starts chasing them, I grab him and give him a big hug and pick him up. I tell him he's in rooster jail and now all I have to do is raise my voice and he quits (he lifts his head really high to see where I am and gives me the tilted head look) bc he doesn't want a hug :/ I try not to be offended, I think my hugs are pretty nice.

 

[teria]

Our beloved lilac Americauna roo has just started being aggressive. At first it was an occasional dance sideways toward us, and then he added one dropped wing, and then the growling started. I went out of town for two days this week, and the evening I got back I went straight out to the back yard where our coop and run are, and as I approached the run he was frantically trying to get at me through the fence. He ran back and forth, with his feathers kind of fluffed up.

Now, a day before we had left we put on the No Crow rooster collar, and watched him for a day to make sure he was okay, so, maybe he is just upset about that, I don't know, but, he is also charging everyone in the family. Although his aggression started before we got the collar, maybe it just made things worse.

So, when I did let him out that day, he ran out and danced sideways at me. I chased him down, picked him up and held him for a while, but, he just seemed so different from how he used to be. A bit wild and angry.

I've been practicing the holding technique since he started showing aggression, and it works for a day, and then the next day we are back at it again. I'm planning to spend the next three days devoted to training this guy. It's so hard because he was my favorite, everyone's favorite. When he was tiny, we thought he was a hen and named him Hazel. When we saw he was a roo we changed it to Silver. I had spoiled him when he was younger, holding him a lot, giving him treats, and in general treating him like a pet. His picture is my avatar. The kids used to tease me and say it would serve me right if Hazel turned out to be a roo. I said I didn't care if she was, because we were keeping her even though I said absolutely no roosters. Now, I'm not so sure I will be able to defend keeping her/him if he doesn't learn to behave.

He's so beautiful. He used to be so sweet. I still try to give him treats, and I will be including that in my training of him. He's just such a good rooster, being all protective and really in charge of his little flock. I'd hate to lose him.

Does this behavior level out as they finish going thru puberty?

 

[Folly's place]

I really hope that behavior modification works for all of your nasty boys, but it may not. Don't feel guilty if your human aggressive cockrels get worse, not better. Be extremely careful if children are involved, and your friends and neighbors can get hurt too. If you have to watch out for a cock all the time, "retrain" him, and have any dancing or wing dipping, much less attacks, toward any humans at all, he shouldn't reproduce, and will be very tasty in the crock pot. Rehome him with full disclosure if you must instead. Mary