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Post by ceresone on Jun 6, 2018 22:17:50 GMT
one of my bantam roosters, well both really, want to fight me, and since i'm on blood thinners it worries me. today, one jumped me, i had a metal strip in my hand i use on the fence, and i cracked him hard with it. he fell, and started flopping around, the other rooster grabbed a wing and tried to pull him under the house away from that horrible big monster. i was so upset at what i did, i cried. both roosters acting like nothing ever happened now
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Post by Mari-in-IN on Jun 6, 2018 22:50:29 GMT
Oh ceresone , Your post made me tear up just a tad as I can totally relate. I'm sorry you were upset though... Never fun thinking you killed them even though they more often than not deserve exactly what they get!! I'm just too big a softy... A while back we had an absolutely awful/aggressive Black Australorp roo. He happened to get in a fight with the other Black Australorp roo (not mean) and hurt him pretty bad. My husband picked up the injured one and the mean one just started whaling on my husband. My husband kicked the absolute you know what out of him and he did the same thing. Flopping about - then nothing. I couldn't even see him breathing. Seriously - I thought he was dead. And of course I started getting upset even though this piece of crud had been nothing but trouble most of his life. After about a half hour (!) he came around and was just fine... Even here recently one of my nasty Ameraucana roos kicked the bucket. He was a complete jerk - he respected me but attacked everyone else... But a horrible roo. Never watched out for the girls... Anytime treats were thrown out to them this selfish jerk would never call the girls over to partake - you know how they do - picking up food in their beak and making that special sound and dropping it for them to eat... He'd just hog everything for himself. Well, silly here even shed a tear when I found him after he had passed away. Did I mention I am a HUGE softy?? Really, try not to feel bad... With you being on blood thinners that is definitely a concern and in my little 'ole opinion I think you did the right thing. He just may have a little more respect for you in the future - I've definitely seen that happen more than once in situations such as this... Take care dear lady, Mari |
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Post by Skandi on Jun 6, 2018 23:14:00 GMT
We must be strange here, we killed a hen that was being too vicious to the other hens, she never went for a human! Never had a roo try anything but it would be dead the second time it tried.
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Post by mzgarden on Jun 7, 2018 0:58:26 GMT
I'm sorry you're upset. We have a policy - no mean animals. Once it acts up, it's on the list. 2nd time, it's gone. We haven't had too many issues, but I refuse to go into my barn/yard/pasture afraid of my own animals.
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Post by gracielagata on Jun 7, 2018 11:48:06 GMT
Mean roosters are the worst! He sounds like stew material! We have a beautiful Speckled Sussex rooster a friend gave me with 3 SS hens. He has been nothing but trouble compared to the 4 roos we raised here with our methods! I usually go in with a shovel or pitchfork so I can thwack him upside the head as needed. He rushes and paces the fenceline when he even sees a human nearby. And we butchered a super respectful, but non-full-egg-laying breed roo who was perfect when she gave him to us!  SS chickens are my absolute fav for looks and personality- but not this guy! Should have stuck with my respectful, human fearing home bred mutt! This last time my husband bonked him hard on the top of the head with one of those old school all wood thick handled brooms. He flopped over, stayed down a few seconds, then got up and was all unbalanced for a few minutes, couldn't even stand on 2 legs. He is still alive and seemingly fine now a week later, though he holds his distance. I think he will get back to being his normal rude self again soon, though. I have a hen sitting on 10 eggs, and hope there is at least one cockerel in there, because once I know I have a boy, he is outta here! We were sending him to freezer camp, but my friend wants him back. She can have his evil self! I have no room for mean and useless, even if he is beautiful. ceresone, take care around him that you don't get hurt! |
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Post by LauraD on Jun 7, 2018 13:40:59 GMT
My brother had a mean rooster once. It ended up in the freezer after it attacked his friend's kids. It was so mean that my SIL refused to eat it!
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Post by ceresone on Jun 7, 2018 13:46:43 GMT
this does remind me of a daughter i once had--the builders were working on the addition to her house. this rooster had jumped her son twice before--the third time, she ran out with her rifle, shouted i told you third time--and shot him she heard the builders on the roof say to another--be sure to do what she tells you first time btw, my buff silky bantam rooster is crowing fine this morning
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Post by Ken on Jun 7, 2018 14:32:06 GMT
...the builders on the roof say to another--be sure to do what she tells you first time...    |
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Post by Maura on Jun 7, 2018 15:47:37 GMT
With an aggressive male I would first ascertain that he was not defending his ladies. If that is the problem you might be able to work out a solution.
I don't understand why one would keep an obviously overly aggressive chicken. If you have a breeding program, the male(s) can be separated from the females and kept in their own pen until such time as you decide to put them together, then separate them again. If it is because you want fertilized eggs, any rooster will do and you can use a docile breed of rooster.
Rhode Island red are known for being aggressive, but most of them will be good kings. Those that are aggressive to humans are put in the oven.
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Post by ceresone on Jun 18, 2018 22:21:06 GMT
they are only there because i'm too soft hearted to kill them-and no one wants them
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Post by countrymom22 on Jun 20, 2018 23:31:57 GMT
We've only had 2 aggressive roos. One tried to attack my 3 year old son while hubby was outside with him. Hubby happened to have a shovel in his hand and fixed it so the roos ran right into it while trying to get to our son. It only deterred him for about 20 minutes so he went to freezer camp the next day.
The other one we named physco chicken because he was not only aggressive to other roos, all of whom were super calm and friendly at all times, but he would attack the hens when they tried to go into the coop to roost at night. He would literally fly across the pasture to fight with the other roos who were no where near him. Got to the point that the girls refused to go inside and started laying their eggs all over the pasture. Then while hubby and I were on an egg hunt, he attacked me. I drop kicked him (it was a reflex, not intentional) across the yard and he picked himself up and came at me again. That was it! Told hubby to get the gun. He did, but he wanted to wait until the other hens were inside for the night. I said no way, do it now. Thankfully hubby is an excellent shot. The chickens were a little upset for about half an hour until they realized that physco chicken was dead. Then they each looked around the inside of the coop, and hopped up on the roosts! That quickly peace and order was restored to my little world.
Life is too short to have a nasty chicken. And if you were raising breeding stock, I wouldn't want to pass that behavior on to the next generation, or anyone else!
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Post by feather on Jun 21, 2018 0:08:31 GMT
they are only there because i'm too soft hearted to kill them-and no one wants them But when Rachel's son comes to live with you for a little while, you're gonna have to cook him up, long slow cooking. 
Edit: stickinthemud, admittedly, this is poorly worded. Within the context, and context is important, we are talking about cooking up a rooster. Still, it's a good laugh.
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Post by stickinthemud on Jun 21, 2018 2:46:23 GMT
Oh, feather, please re-word that...
Thanks, feather! (I checked back for updates and saw that post alone.)
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Post by aoconnor on Jun 29, 2018 22:07:12 GMT
I had a really mean rooster! He came after me one day and I happened to have a broom in my hand, I wacked that roo in the head with the broom handle and knocked him out! I thought I had killed him, but then he began flopping about and eventually got up again. Dumb roo did it again, and he “accidentally” got left out of the coop that night! He was gone the next morning and I never felt bad at all😁😁😁
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SS chickens are my absolute fav for looks and personality- but not this guy! Should have stuck with my respectful, human fearing home bred mutt!
