Should I drop a rooster?

[kwhites634]

First, why do you want roosters? What are your goals involving them? The only reason you need a rooster is if you want fertile eggs. Everything else is just personal preference. I generally recommend that you keep as few roosters as you can and still meet your goals. That's not because you are guaranteed problems with multiple roosters but that problems are more likely.

You do not have roosters and hens, you have cockerels and pullets. There is a lot of difference in their behaviors. Males are going to mate the females, that is life in the chicken world. Mature roosters and hens normally handle this without drama but immature pullets and immature cockerels often add a lot of excitement to this. Don't expect the interaction between your cockerels and pullets to be the same when they mature, if they make it that far.

Some people will tell you that you absolutely cannot have two males and six females, disaster is certain. Some of us have had different experiences. But a big factor is that you generally need a lot of room. Forget that 4 square feet in the coop with 10 in the run per chicken. With your small number of chickens the coop probably needs to be a little bigger but the outside area probably needs to be a lot bigger. As active as cockerels can be when they are hopped up on their hormones it can get pretty rough as they go through adolescence. I'm strongly in favor of as much room as you can reasonably give them and I recommend you keep as few roosters as you can and still meet your goals. It is possible you can get by with 2 males and 6 females, you can wait and see as far as cockerel/pullet interaction goes, but I really think your best number of roosters is going to be 0 or 1, not 2.

To your real question, can you do something about him attacking you. You can try, he is only a cockerel, not a grown rooster. Sometimes they can be taught that they are not superior to you. We have different techniques for that but they depend a lot on your attitude and actions. You have to show him you are boss and not part of his flock. Some people don't have the attitude to do that and the cockerels or roosters can sense when you are afraid. Even if you do teach him not to attack you the minute your back is turned, he might still attack other people, including kids. I have changed cockerels' attitudes successfully and they did not go on to attack other people, but I've also had failures.

When my first rooster started sneaking up behind me, or running halfway across the yard to ram my legs, he quickly found a new home...probably in a crock pot somewhere. His replacement decided to take me on one day, charging out of the coop & bouncing off my chest full force, spurring me in the process. I managed to knock him to the ground from 4' in the air as he flew by. Never had a problem after that, but kept an eye on him, always aware of his location. Before a predator took him, I could be within a foot of him without a problem.

 

[TheTwoRoos]

A cockerel charging you is normal to him,but not to us,it is just dangerous to us,but instinct to them,it’s a defending/dominant behavior.
I would get rid of him because most generally they can’t be turned around.
You can try rehabilitation by chasing him and penning him down,and dominating your space but there is no guarantee this guy is gonna change.