What do you do when your roo attacks?

[speckledhen]

Roosters that attack the person who brings food and water are not intelligent, period. I don't want a stupid rooster here. Most of the time, you know by the time they are 18-24 weeks old if they are going to be the type to bite the hand that feeds them because the hormones are raging then and they are mating the ladies. I do not have time to watch my back around this place and I won't carry a weapon to feed the birds. Some just cannot be rehabilitated and then you have to decide if it's worth your trouble and the safety of little kids to keep a human-aggressive rooster.

 

[BantyRooster]

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How hard did you have to kick your husband to straighten him out?

 

[AmyRey]

 

[greathorse]

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Yup, except you must be the Alpha rooster, the top roo, not #2, which is actually what I suspect this poster meant.

Yes I meant Alpha, brain dead most of the time. No point in playing second fiddle.

 

[Chicken Fruit]

I chase the bajoosies out of them any time i am outside. And run after them with a kid in tow and swing the kid at them. Looks ridiculous but it works. I have my son do that from time to time, just to keep the roos in place. I let him scoop-kick at them too, if theyre being really bad, which is almost never. Its how roosters naturally sort things out, and gently kicking a rooster does a lot to put him back in his place.

Dont you all go ballistic on me, i dont mean i drop kick my roosters, i mean i catch them on my ankle and scoop them up and away they go. Doesnt hurt them a bit, we're all still friends when its over, they just are more certain of their position in the big scheme of things.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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How hard did you have to kick your husband to straighten him out?

 

[mountaintopchicken]

Roosters that attack the person who brings food and water are not intelligent, period. I don't want a stupid rooster here.

I think you're on to something, Speckedhen. My most aggressive roosters are also the most stupid roosters. In the case of these dingbats, there is no 'rehabilitation', because there is not much to work with in terms of intelligence. They are all reaction and testosterone, there is no reason there to reason with. In fact, the aggression isn't even directed to me personally. They will attack the waterers that I have filled and brought in, or the feeders, or the shovel. They seem to react to anything moving, new, or shiny with aggression.

I have to keep my two worst offenders for now, because they are what I have to work with - but I will be culling for aggression for years to come!​

 

[The Zoo]

I chase my chickens into the coop with a broom - so far I'm pretty sure the rooster things I'm terrifying. Terrifying but also the 'treat lady'. Go figure.

 

[columbiacritter]

It's one thing to keep an attackign roo if it's just adults involved, but if you have kids out there you're risking serious injury to them.

My freind got really mad at me for offing my vicious rooster when she had one just as bad. Well, not 2 wks later she was in the ER with her seven year old getting stitched up and going on massive antibiotics after a roo attack. Her son will have scars for the rest of his life because of a rooster she thought she had control of.

Her roo was a mid sized mutt bird, not a giant. I went over and made sure he was in the freezer before they got home from the hospital.

 

[buck-wild-chick]

Kick that cr*p outa him