Most backyard chicken keepers will only need one. Introducing or reintroducing birds to the flock must be done with care. Roosters who are raised together but are separated for breeding, illness, or for any reason, will also probably fight to the death if you reintroduce the separated roo to the flock. They will almost always fight to the death or until one is so maimed he can no longer fight. It’s not about surrender in this situation. You should NEVER try to introduce a new rooster into a flock that already has a dominant rooster. Pecking order is taken seriously by the flock. In these challenges, the rooster who runs away, walks away, or hides is the loser, he surrenders. Even if hand raised, as I do, it will usually always happen that there will be a rooster challenging me.Įven if roosters have been raised together, they will have a pecking order just like the hens.
You are seen by your roo as an interloper in his flock, and he will feel the need to challenge you. When roosters are establishing dominance, they will challenge each other to varying degrees. I can’t tell you how many times I have been asked, “Why is my rooster attacking me?” or “My rooster attacked my leg, what can I do?” Knowing this did not change their opinions of chickens though. Sigh…wish I had remembered that because even though he was an aggressive rooster, Cogburn was a great rooster.Īfter this disappointing experience, the boys learned how to keep an aggressive rooster from attacking you. After laughing for a while, she reminded me of how she had taught me “how to stop a rooster from attacking you”. A few days later, I told my grandmother about the experience. Killing and eating him is not how I recommend you break an aggressive rooster. I took a large chicken pot pie to the church lunch on Sunday! I was scared, in pain, and just plain mad! It was the last straw. I heard, “Thump, thump, thump,” and then he got me! That rooster attacked my leg! One day, I was about halfway between the barn and the house, with a full egg basket and milk pail in my hands. He seemed to enjoy faking me out like he wasn’t paying any attention to me, then bam! He would run up behind and spur me. He was beautiful and an exceptionally good watcher for his girls. Yes, I named him after John Wayne’s character in Rooster Cogburn. My first experience with this was with an aggressive rooster named Cogburn. Protect Yourself from an Aggressive Rooster An Aggressive Rooster Story
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