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Meet "El Feo"



He's an absolute A-hole to his hens when he's mounting them. Spurs and claws are tearing up the backs of a few, seems the ones that are most submissive suffer less damage.

I separated this one from the flock as she was so bad and one other hen would get after her, then El Feo would also, then 3-4 other hens would start pecking at her head when he mounted her. Since she's been separated, she's starting to grow feathers back.



I have a friend who might want her to help start up a flock of his own. If not, she might go in the stew pot................................along with a certain rooster.

However, I have another friend who says he's cut off spurs and cauterized the wound and effectively keeps mr rooster from growing them back. I may try that.

He's nice enough to me, perhaps because when he first started to feel the testosterone flowing I let him know who the boss rooster on this property is. He doesn't act up much now. He's good at letting the hens know when there's something good to eat and he does a better job than they do at watching the sky and for stuff in the yard. So I hate to get rid of him, but if I can't get him to stop tearing up the feathers on the hens, he might just get eaten.

Geno

Bake a potato in the microwave, when it is done to eat, grab it and grab the spurred rooster off the evening roost.
Roll him over and put the potato onto the spur for 120 seconds. Remove the spur and any issues.

That works, eh?

I might get the friend to help me with that.

Bet I could just leave that tater there outside the coop and they'd all hammer it for breakfast.

Thanks for the idea.

Geno

I used to sharpen those little knives for a bunch of Mexicans that were into fighting chickens. I could do a good job of it but when a cock lost, it might have been because the knives weren't sharp enough.

I got out of it before any of those SOBs got mad at me.

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My current rooster is small (not much bigger than the average hen - might be part bantam), and keeps his distance from me. My previous rooster, Rodrigo (pictured below), was huge (about twice the size of an average hen) and nearly fearless. Early on, he'd attack me pretty regularly when I approached the hen house to do my chores. Then I started a well timed kick (like you describe) with the top of my foot, just hard enough to hurt a little and send him reeling back. At first, he'd come right at me again, and get a second kick. After a few times like this, he started keeping his distance just far enough from me so I can't reach him. That was good enough.

My uncle’s girlfriend has a bunch of hens she sells eggs from and every year when she gets some more chicks at the feed store she’ll accidentally get a rooster or two. She gets attached to them raising them up and won’t shoot or wring them herself. Here a few months ago she had two that were getting out of hand so uncle went and shot their heads off and brought them to me to eat.

They were the toughest birds I’ve ever seen. Their skin was like a tire tube and impossible to tear, nearly impossible to cut with a sharp knife. Mom ran them through the pressure cooker in hopes of tenderizing them and then flouring and frying. They curled up like a ball of rubber bands! So they went back in the pressure cooker and turned into some kind of casserole. Pretty good but definitely not worth the effort.

Watch this vicious rooster in action.

Back when I was a little guy a White Leghorn Rooster had me cornered and my Mother had to rescue me. After that I carried a stick with me and used the rooster for batting practice. He finally got the message and kept his distance from me. When he finally ended up in the stew pot I really enjoyed that meal.

One of my earliest memories was being attacked by a couple of them when I was about age 4. No real harm done but avoided them until I was a bit older.

A good, tame "Boss" rooster doing his job can be interesting and sometimes even impressive to watch. It's not uncommon for them stand their ground and fight off (or at least try to) other animal attacks, often as not resulting in their own injury and/or death, to protect the rest of their flock. The same when caught out in extreme bad weather, they will try to lead the flock to the nearest familiar cover.

We had a couple mean ones, spur your ass when you walked by.

Lmao


I’ve seen more than a few karate kids fold under attack, but that was cute and funny

It works 100%, we've done it many times. I was spurred once in the left calf, bled like a stuck hog, killed the mean mofo and then started researching options for spur growth on any future rooster that we might have.
No more issues with the potato method. Although all of our roosters these days are friendly fellas.

A cattle prod will break any rooster from attacking you, GUARANTEED.

Sounds like a Greek tragedy.

Fava beans?....chianti???

We just lost a great little Banty to Raccoons, "the Colonal" liked to be picked up and held LOL, he would sit on the swing with the grandkids too, normally I wouldn't have noticed him but he forced me to like him when he would come over and dig himself a hole and watch me work on vehicles outside my shop.....2 ded Coons.

That varicose vein looked like a big fat juicy worm.

RIP