Thanks, I would appreciate seeing it. I pick them up, hold them under my arm and make sure they keep below my head level and have a chat with them. I will not let them down until I am ready to put them down and I will not let their feet touch the ground if they try to flap or flail their legs. I make sure they know I have control of them. While they do their roo jobs I try not to take away their power because they still need to be seen as the boss of the other chicks. So far Teddy, my biggest roo and formerly one of the more aggressive ones, has gotten used to me being the boss and he will literally bow down when I walk up. He almost never tries to peck at me or chase me but he is willing to try to put me in my place if he thinks I am hurting one of his chicks lol.John, I ran across an article here on BYC on asserting your dominance to your roosters so that they know you're in charge. I will look and see if I can find it. I'm pretty sure it was a featured article. It was written by a member a few years ago. It was very informative. When we had RIR (which are lovely chickens but too aggressive for my taste) the roosters were extremely mean. Truthfully, I was afraid of them. I wish I had found this article a long time ago. I wouldn't have been afraid of those roosters and had to re-home them. My Maran rooster is now about six or seven months old, he once pecked me for picking up the chicks, I immediately picked him up and held him until he calmed down. We had a couple of instances where he tried to rush us when interacting with the chicks in the yard. Did the same thing and haven't had any trouble out of him since.
Wy on the other hand had been the boss and he got knocked down a peg by Teddy so he is feeling that loss of power and is acting out. The problem with Wy is that he hadn't been aggressive so he hasn't learned the lessons yet. He got his lecture last night, he got his timeout and I maintained control of him. He was so happy to be out of the timeout pen that he ran to the run and back to his chicks. This morning he walked near me but wasn't aggressive. He's learning. I just need to make sure that all the roos get trained when they act up. The funny part is that I really only have one roo that is being aggressive to me and the rest are very sweet. I can pick up nearly every one of my birds and not have to worry that any will try to peck me and the few that do won't try to hurt me.