To anyone who has had a mean roo

[Robin'sBrood]

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That is so funny, I want to see the video of his boxer dance!

 

[roosters97]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=74825

 

[purr]

when I was pregnant with DD, we lived at my in laws.They had rasberry bushes in their chicken run. I went in there to pick berries.
Their rooster attacked me, came at me spurs first just at belly height I was 8 mths along. I took my flip flop off and was beating the hell out of him the whole time screaming for help.He had huge spurs.
My father-in-law came to my rescue.

roo was very tasty.

 

[americana-chick]

i have 4 roos and one banty roo and they will chace, peck, spur, and one time they even used there wings to cut me!

but i still love em, anyway!

 

[redkan]

I have a EE bantam roo who was raised by my daughter. Last summer, when he was about a year old he attacked my leg as I carried a half full bucket of water from one of the stalls. I was so startled that that without thinking I kicked out with my leg to get him away and threw the bucket at him, hitting him with both water and bucket. I don't know if the attack was a fluke or if my reaction scared any agression out of him but he's never offered to repeat his mistake and is actually a pleasure to be around.

 

[cyanne]

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Umm, that sounds like he was trying to mate with her but wasn't sure exactly how to do it right. I've got a few of those hormonal 'teenager' roos in my flock right now. They chase the girls around and generally make a nuisance of themselves as they try to figure out how to pin one down and do the deed. Hopefully their skills improve at some point, because so far the pullets all seem less than impressed by their efforts!

 

[Jennyhaschicks]

This is my first time owning chickens and my oldest cockerel is 12 weeks old. The other day I was sitting at the picnic table and I purposely ignored him and let him get near me. He walked up and bit my ankle. He got a size 8 Croc up the wazoo to say the least. He went rolling across the lawn and got up clucking. He was really mad. I was too!

 

[ChickPeas]

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Maybe your roos are mean to you because of their names... Louise... Iris... Suzanne...

My other roos are Danielle and Justine! lol Obviously I thought they were girls when I got them...the names just sorta stuck. giggle

 

[chickenzoo]

I have been given a couple of mean roos to reform. One is a white Ongdori that was very nasty, we called him killer. He would fly up at you and try to bite your face, flogg you constantly and try to bite your legs or anything -none stop. If you kicked him it only made it worse. I started grabbing him and holding him every time he did this, and he did it alot! I carried him around the whole time I fed up. I'd put him down and if he did it again, which he did, thenoff we'd go in. He would come all the way across the pasture just to flogg you. Well after about a week of doing this and my husband constantly telling me he would never change, he is now the sweetest roo. He will follow you everywere, let you pick him up, never tried to flogg or bite again. Had another aggressive roo that tried the same method on, same responce. Killer had been kept in a small cage all his life, and being out on the pasture helped change his attitude a lot also.

 

[Robin'sBrood]

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Maybe your roos are mean to you because of their names... Louise... Iris... Suzanne...

My other roos are Danielle and Justine! lol Obviously I thought they were girls when I got them...the names just sorta stuck. giggle

Well, I'm no better. My roo names... Buffy & Lacy. After I found Buffy was a boy, and not the girl he was supposed to be, he became Sir Buffington... but we still called him Buffy. Lacy is just Lacy.