Training roosters to be nice??

[ChickenKiera]

I have two roosters who have attacked people, they are with 40 other hens.
Is there ANY way that I can train them both to not be aggressive and make them know that humans are the dominant ones.
Will they then not be agressive to every human that goes in there and especially children that go in there???

 

[hysop]

These two articles really taught me a lot and I highly recommend you look them over.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/understanding-your-rooster.75056/
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/dealing-with-and-taming-aggressive-roosters.74600/

 

[SueT]

Aggressive roosters are a liability. If you have children, then I would not even consider keeping/trying to train the roosters, but instead I would re-home or eat the roosters asap. A child can lose an eye when a rooster jumps at him.
I had an aggressive rooster and tried many of the tips suggested on BYC and I did not have luck with any of them. I realize others have. Good luck,

 

[hysop]

I do advocate for trying to work with a rooster and not giving up on him. But my own experience has been that I had to put down the only aggressive rooster I had.

I have two kids who are 3 and both were attacked when they were around 2, thankfully only in their thigh and hand. I tried working with that rooster and was seeing progress and one day out of the blue he began attacking me before I would even enter his pen/run. My husband put his foot down and said his spurs were much larger than when he first attacked the kids and did not want to risk a tragedy.

So now, we are left with 3 roosters who are nice, well 2 are sweet, 1 is more so neutral, but definitely not aggressive. But my two cents is that the mean rooster was mean from the start as in we noticed his aggressive behavior since he was about a month old, but we were new to chickens and didn’t do research on how to nip that behavior in the bud and it escalated I guess.