Why I'm NOT SCARED of Roosters: How I Tame & Why I LOVE Having ROOSTERS
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- Here's the simple way I have tamed my roosters-- and keep them tame-- so they don't come at me or threaten me in any way. Also, all the reasons why I LOVE having roosters for my free-ranging flock of egg-laying hens.
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Just seeing this video after all these yrs. .I have ALL roos..just started as a rescue and this is how it started..🤷♀️..I love my roos🥰..they are all good boys for me..I've had a couple of spicy ones but never to the point of me being attacked..the only time I notice them being that way is when I don't/can't spend.alot of time with them..other than that they are so so.sweet..well..to me anyway..but yes even with the little bit of Spice I nipped it in the bud the same way you do..plus I carry them.around.alot..and backwards facing at times...but thank you for this video. It helps me in knowing that I do the same and don't have to feel bad about it..🥰💚♥️🐓
For those looking for aggressive rooster help, read my comment. Yes, this advice is right! I’m a first time chicken owner. Raised my hens since chicks. I got them July 2020. Got an adult rooster from a swap and shop online when they were about 20 weeks. He was fine for the first few weeks. Never acted aggressive. THEN, my hens started laying last week. I couldn’t go in the pen to do anything without watching my back for an attack. He was waiting for his opportunity every time. So I found another video here on YT. Went out this morning. Caught my rooster and pinned him down to the ground, like a submissive hen. Pinned him head down too. Waited about 5 minutes and let him go. Came back later to feed them and lay bedding in their shed and he stayed far away from me. He didn’t puff up or dance or run at me like he was. I think it may have worked.
Same thing happend with me rooster came at me I kicked it back then came at me again and I got my foot on his neck back area and had em pinned with my foot and let him go and after that he stayed far away and didn’t come near me
Shame I gave my beloved rooster for rehoming with out trying
At the moment grooming his baby son will train him then
Thanks
It's funny how roosters lose their aggressiveness once their legs are no longer touching the ground...
I wouldn't let him stand back up. Teaches him to defy you and that you actually aren't dominant over him because he can fight back and escape your dominance. The whole point of holding him down is to assert dominance so he knows he can't best you. Once you have him pushed down in a sitting position, hold his lower back down with one palm and then make a "peace" sign with your index and middle finger on the other hand, and gently push down on the back of his neck until his head is resting on the ground. Hold him there for a minute, maybe 2, then pick him and pet and carry him for another minute or 2 so all the hens can see you are the boss, not him. It's amazing how fast that cures aggressive roosters, might only take a couple times to fix them 😉
That is interesting becuase one time I came in when a rooster was dominating another rooster and he held him down for several minutes on the neck, and then even once he took his foot off, the beaten rooster laid there for another minute or two before getting up.
I appreciate your input; that makes sense.
@@Jess_Connell Ahhh, yes, you got to see it in live action! It's how they develop their pecking order within the flock. You're basically speaking to them in their native language that you are above them in their funny chicken hierarchy, LOL.
@@Jess_Connell Is Solomon a blue laced red wyandotte? He looks just like one of ours that we thought was a hen until he started crowing a month ago. Definitely a roo, he's grown the giant gobble and spurs over the winter. He's the same color pattern as Solomon.
Anyways, he's always been gentle since a chick and now rules the roost over our 2 aggressive roosters. Very docile and gentle giant. He is very defensive of his hens and even my kids and me. He won't let those bullies near me or my kids. It's really quite sweet to watch!
@@nicholassims1947 Yes he was a blue-laced red wyandotte.
He was an ornery, stubborn rooster that became a wonderful rooster... and he gave his life by fighting for the girls. Sweet roo.
@@Jess_Connell Yea, that happens. My favorite rooster, a lavender orpington, died trying saving a hen that flew into my backyard and got attacked by my doberman. Saved the hen but paid with his life.
My 2nd year rooster just started attacking me. First time was yesterday while changing water. He needs training now. I didn't know this dominance trick. My roosters attitude change is today. :0)
heh heh, awesome! I'd love to hear how it goes. :)
Roosters are the best!! Yeah sometimes I have to fight with one of mine but the other two are tamed and it feels like I’ve tamed a great white!
Brilliant. My latest book involves a chicken, paramedic Chris and the runaway chicken.
Thanks for posting , I’ll start training . I bought some bantams and ended up with 4 roosters . The flock free ranges all day and I got worried after seeing a post about someone’s little one being clawed by a rooster
Yes! I'm trying this with my rooster tomorrow!
Tomato staking roosters! I love it! - Love, Susannah
Haha! didn't think of it that way, but totally. Keeping them close, watching, and testing them... haha
I have a rooster named Killer. 🐓
Awesome content. Im here in South Africa and when the eagles are about my roster Big Ben does his job of protecting his ladies by alarm calls.
Your chickens are so pretty and nice and ofcourse you silverdot red wayendot rooster is so beautiful
Thank you. My rooster is going on a year old. He was so sweet. Not so much anymore
Why I hate roosters:
1: Parents left me with one of the most aggressive species the old English game ox bantoms so yeah I trained them since chicks and they still attack me.
2: They make so much noise I had to block my window with pillows
3: They'll kill each other if you keep them together.
Mine used to challenge me each time I went outside, doing a silly shuffle dance each time he saw me until I chose to fight him. He stopped after I pinned him and let the hens watch him get pinned for a few seconds. Got embarrassed and now he only does the dance for some seconds before remembering that I could destroy him in seconds.
@@LeoTheYuty I already got rid of all my roosters besides 2, those 2 got kicked very bad by me and thrown around like a football and that seemed to make them fear me and I never had that problem again I guess violence is the answer.
@@eatyourcereal7353 That's one way to do it. May I ask why you have more than one rooster? Do you have a lot of hens or something?
I love chickens, but I am so afraid of them, especially roosters. When I was a young child, my grandmother raised chickens for the eggs and the meat. This was back in the 70s. She warned sleeting that the rooster was mean and that if we weren’t careful he would attack. He never attacked my grandmother but everyone else was fair game. One summer we went to visit my grandparents and I was out in the yard playing and I didn’t see the rooster, he chased me down and got me with his spurs. I love chickens but I have a healthy respect and fear of the roosters. They are mean birds. LOL.
You're right. They can be so creepy & mean. We definitely did not let our littles (6 and under or so) out there in the chicken area alone, and even the 8-10 year olds need to be aware and watchful the whole time. Those roosters are constantly seeking to overtake someone new in the "pecking order"
@@Jess_Connell thanks. My grandmas chickens weren’t kept in cages. I wasn’t anywhere near where they were usually. I wouldn’t have been out playing in the yard if I had known where they were. My grandmother was the head of the flock and the rooster knew it. He didn’t give her any trouble, my grandfather was a different story. That rooster tried to show him too many times who was in charge. LOL.
i tried it with my hen who runs at least 20 miles per hour
I have a rooster that is just going to be 4 months old, for now he is still quite tame and he always lets me put lay him down, I can put him on my hand, my arm and he lies down by himself. Also when he is very relaxed he tends to stretch his neck, which I found cute and is something my old rooster used to do ^^
I also don't know if you have any advice for introducing a new hen. Right now we only have the 4-month-old rooster and a 5-month-old hen, so a neighbor gave us another chicken between 6 and 7 months old. But so far they are only attacking each other, so we separate them but the idea is to bring them together. Also when they gave her to us, she was very sick so we had to keep her apart for almost a month and just now I am putting them together more often.
Interesting. 3 Chickens and Brunno came with my property. I've established dominance but he's never been handled. He's a very stout old English. Not sure I should start now in his mature state.
When you were taming the roosters, did they ever try to get you with their spurs? How did you prevent this? I have around 15 or 20 wild chickens (hens and roosters) that visit me twice a day for food. Some now jump on my lap and shoulder but won’t let me touch them. I’m afraid if I try, they will never come back. Any advice? Thank you 😊
I’m trying to tame my rooster Red. He’s big and isn’t really aggressive towards me as much as he is my family. He’s also aggressive with the hens when he mates with them. He rips their feathers out and they scream :( any tips?
I mean, you could stay close by for an hour or two and try (?) to correct him by doing this push-down tactic every time he is too rough with a hen. And see if that helps him "get it"?
We are having a tough time with feathers/mating right now too. I think part of it right now is that it's August & the girls are all almost fully molted and so they look less feathered-out in general anyway.
Depending on how bad it is as well, you can purchase or make chicken “saddles” to help protect their backs
Oh I was like # 421. So I hope we all got our 420 on. 😂
How do you keep your roosters from fighting each other
I have Roosters attacking my younger flock I have had the young ones in a smaller pen inside the coop so when I put them together the Roosters would not stopping hurting the chicks please help 🐓👍⭐👍👍🇺🇸♥️
Have your children be the dominant rooster too
Just last night we rehomed a 5 month old cockerel that brutally attacked my mom when she was brought food for our flock of 14 (chickens and ducks). WTF. I've been attacked here and there but nothing that left much of a wound but this time mom got bit multiple times, gaping wounds, blood pouring everywhere. It was freaking awful. I chased him around trying to catch the mf-er and ended up slipping and falling injuring like half my darn body.... I called a friend who so happened to be chatting with his neighbor and his neighbor immediately drove over here looked at the cockerel, decided to take him and left. Yay! We are so thankful he's gone! Now we're going to go pick up a barred rock roo from someone else in town. They say he's friendly. We shall see. smh
I have a stray rooster that has wandered my yard all summer. His owners are a no show...so I’m preparing a shed he has adopted as his home. Winter is close.....we made a large box filled with wood shavings but he has no interest. Along side that we replaced the stacks of wood he choose to roost upon with a flat shelf like board. This actually seemed to traumatized him some what as he has t returned to that spot to sleep at night. Instead he is now roosting on the rafters. We will be getting a heat lamp...but I’d like to make him a comfortable bed. Any suggestions.?
What you're describing sounds good. They don't really need a special place to be, just somewhere they can sleep safely. He may not like the board if some animal has surprised him or tried to attack him near that spot.
@@Jess_Connell he wasn’t attacked by any animal at all, not at our home....we just replaced the stack of loose boards that he found on his first night with us , with a flat board. However a vertical support beam to hold the shelf in place was inserted which I’m guessing is the disturbance. But at least he still goes into the shed. I have started closing the door at night, which he has responded to well. I’m thinking I might build a ladder to urge him toward the wood chip box and maybe make the box smaller. I’m also thinking he needs food and water inside the shed....but how to keep the water from freezing....I obviously have a lot of research to do.
@@Coyotelover100 They don't tend to like flat places, as much as a 1.5-3 inch bar they can wrap their claws around. Flat boards are ok, but not ideal. They prefer to perch.
@@Jess_Connell oh....ok. So making a bed isn’t a priority? I’ve checked out some coop designs. I’ll just work toward making the shed as comfortable as possible for the winter. Hay, wood chips , heat lamp and food and water. I’ll leave it up to him to find a snuggle spot. Thanks for the info...it’s much appreciated!
@@Coyotelover100 Yeah, hay, wood chips, or dried grass (that you'll change out from time to time, when it gets clogged up with poop) under wherever he roosts is important to be able to keep the coop clean & dry for him. Looks like you're getting research in! He'll do well!
I'm getting Buff Orpington eggs. Around here we have wild chicken's that are extremely tuff and brutal. Instead of relying on a Buff Orpington rooster to defend them here, I was wondering if a rooster can be fixed from fertilizing without effecting testosterone. Because I live next to full blown fighting rooster breeder. I'm against fighting but, one would sure keep them safe. These roosters fight dogs, and win. Cats, hawks. Hawaii doesn't have predators for them. Just hens and chicks unprotected get nabbed by mongoose and bird of pray so much you see wild chicken's with less and less till all gone.
You can never turn your back on a rooster, small water pistol helps also. Just watch with small kids around as you don t need there face hit by them
Is your farm a animal loving farm or do you use the animal's for consumption purposes like other humans do as if animals are just slaves for us?
Also I don't have to treat my rooster like that to tame him..
I'm very gentle with him as roosters are sensitive despite their protective behaviour which is misunderstood for aggressiveness.
You sharing this treatment to roosters will have the wrong people putting force on these poor roosters.
Thanks from a chicken lover.
Lol
what is your method of taming?
@@trueg115 His "gentle" rooster has probably killed him by now.
Hi can we really change our rooster to his normally ever so friendly habits until he turn 7-8 month old
. Twice
We gave him away and the people took him and called me back saying he is so aggressive if we wanted him back or...
Both occasions we went all the way took him back. We are waiting to groom one of his son and this time will give him away to a charity instead an individual
Please advise
He is our first ever chic we thought it is hen but....
Yes, I think they can be Taught this, even at older ages. Like anything, the older they are, the more they will be set in their ways, and the longer it will take for them to accept and understand the new normal. I think our first set of roosters were 4-5 months old when we got them.
@@Jess_Connell thanks let me convince my daughter
My rooster button the girls out of the way so he can eat first. How do you solve that?
When they were younger (~6 months ish?) I sat nearby and kind of thumped him on the head when he did that.
As they got older I also provided more eating space, so either they quit doing it or just didn't need to because there was more room to eat?
@@Jess_Connell they have a 25x25' run for 5 chickens and 1 rooster
I would put a few feeders out with food and let the girls have other places to get food while the rooster eats out of one. I hope this helps 🙂
Do you have any tips on helping my skittish Silkie rooster we found him in the rain in front of my grandmothers house and he lives in a pen at my house now. We had three hens with him a little red hen I don't remember what kind she was and two fat meat chickens all the hens are passed now from coyotes and he saw it happen. He doesn't like us and every time I go in the feed him he start hurting himself to get away from me. That's when he's not even in his little house he'll stay in his little house we have for him all day and all night. I'm worried about him but I really don't want to give him away because I'm afraid if what someone else will do to him. Do you have any tips to help please or is this just their normal behavior. We have other roosters and chickens but nine if them act this way please help.
Hmm that sounds like he could be sick or scared. My roosters only stayed inside if they felt sick.
How long have you had him?
@@Jess_Connell I think it's been half a year we are also scared he's sick but he's still alive and walking we were scared our last chicken was sick too but it was summer so it might was heat stroke. I think he's scared because he's really small well smaller then the rest of our rosters but we had three hens in his pen but they all three died so I don't know if I should get another hen yet.
@@kazuyamiyuki7061 Do you change out the bedding regularly? Is his area clean and tidy?
@@Jess_Connell I change out the straw under him every 3 weeks
@@kazuyamiyuki7061 Interesting; I don't know any other angles to prod; To me, sounds like he might be just sick or skittish.
Sounds like your bullying Salomon no wonder he's the meanest lol
well, sadly he was killed last fall defending the girls, but before that happened he’d become our sweetest rooster and wouldn’t be aggressive even toward our children.
@@Jess_Connell how was he killed?
Why aren't your roosters protected somehow?
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This video is too long. I came here to learn how to tame roosters but I've been watching for 2 minutes and it doesn't look like you're going to show how to tame roosters anytime. I quit watching and I probably won't try a video on your channel again. I'm not saying this to be mean or complain because I really like that you like roosters and that you seem like you would be gentle with him. But when I come looking for information on youtube, I don't have 10 minutes to watch an entire video just to see if it gives me the little bit of information I need.
When you search for videos, it gives you the video length. You're welcome to choose the ones that are the length you like. Hope you find a 2 minute one that helps.
Sunday dinner
I mean, that's easy to say, but realistically, if you let your girls free-range, then a good rooster or set of roosters is needed in order to protect them.
This rooster (in the video) ended up giving his life for the girls.
I saw one of our other roosters fly, claws first, toward a hawk that was going for our flock.
Good roosters protect the investment of a flock-- they keep laying hens from becoming "Sunday dinner" for bobcats, hawks, snakes, raccoons, and other predators.
What awful music.
Good GOD, you know how to waste a person's time!
It’s funny I don’t think anyone from my sphere came and held your head in place and clicked on the video and made you watch.
That faux person also did not hold your hands in place and dictate the comment you should write.
You’re free to go on your way and have quite a merry day and, indeed, I hope you do.
@@Jess_Connell well thank you for your wonderful advice, I will take it up.
Now mine to you: If you want to turn away potential subscribers - just carry on with the three and a half minute of unrelated preludes before getting to the promised topic.