Why and what do you do when a cockerel turns agressive?

[1cock2hens]

I have a cockerel for 2 months now and suddenly hes turned aggresive..."

that is not expressing the birds age but a length of time owned @Shadrach

 

[IamRainey]

This one on the other hand is a battle tested mean mutha.
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Come on people, get a grip.

He looks like my 6mo BCM. I'm still trying to establish my dominance and assess whether we can co-exist.

So far he just flies at me occasionally when my back is turned. Maybe half a dozen times in the last month or so. Not enough to hurt me but I don't want him to be doing this to my 8yo grandson.

I'm still going in the run with my Rooster Stick to push him around just a bit to make my point. I'm not sure how long this is going to go on before I feel comfortable enough to keep him. I want to, but I won't risk my grandson, of course.

But I've heard that BCMs are prone to aggression. What's your experience?

 

[aart]

Here we go, rather off topic while the OP has run for the hills.

 

[EggWalrus]

And at just two months old doubt he's even crowing. Please give the little fellow a chance, I think you are just misunderstanding his intentions.

 

[Shadrach]

He looks like my 6mo BCM. I'm still trying to establish my dominance and assess whether we can co-exist.

So far he just flies at me occasionally when my back is turned. Maybe half a dozen times in the last month or so. Not enough to hurt me but I don't want him to be doing this to my 8yo grandson.

I'm still going in the run with my Rooster Stick to push him around just a bit to make my point. I'm not sure how long this is going to go on before I feel comfortable enough to keep him. I want to, but I won't risk my grandson, of course.

But I've heard that BCMs are prone to aggression. What's your experience?

I've never kept BCMs so I don't know if they are more prone to aggression than any other breed.
I need aggressive roosters where I am. The nice guys die. The whole point of a rooster is that he is aggressive. It's how he keeps other roosters away and protects his hens.

 

[EggWalrus]

your point?.. the advice to cull was given before it was known that it was still a chick... when it was made clear that it was a chick still you will notice the same people said to give it time or work on it

He's a big chick. But he's still just a chick. Unless he's some kind of mutant monster chick?
Chikzilla!

 

[Ribh]

The first chickens we owned turned out to be all male! Six of them. I was ok with that until they started attacking everything that moved: dogs, cats, visitors & kids. I was the only thing they didn't attack. They went somewhere where I knew they'd eventually end up in the soup pot but until then they had a good life.

Only you can assess how much of a threat to everyone & everything else this bird is & what you are prepared to risk in order to keep him.

Personally anything that will attack a child or other pets has to go. Best of British.

 

[Headhen3]

I had one barred rock that got so aggressive I could not go anywhere near the barn unless I had a broomstick or a supper soaker in my hand. I finally dispatched him because I was afraid of the liability if he went after someone else and hurt them.
I had never mistreated him or his hens but he decided any human was the enemy.

 

[Folly's place]

I had a cockerel who started challenging me at five weeks of age, and I do know how to raise birds, and how to read their behaviors. He was a total jerk, who did not improve, but only got nastier, and had a short life.
It's very possible that this chick is wired that way too, and won't turn out well. This sort of human aggression is genetically based, and if the OP can reform him for one person, it won't transfer towards other people, especially small people (children!).
Beekissed has an excellent article about managing roosters, please look it up.
Mary

 

[gimmie birdies]

Roosters get excited as teen boys, I have always picked up my chickens boys or girls as they are growing up, and they get a cuddle, and then get put back on the ground, my chickens all know if they come near me then I will pick them up, and they decide if they want to be picked up or avoid me. I never show fear, they can sense it and put you low on their totem pole. I also never push them off with a foot, or a broom, because they think you are playing games their way.