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Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 15 5:40 pm Post subject: Life saving suggestions
This handsome creature is a bantam cockerel with too much Old English Game in him. Feisty is an understatement. He ignores Jack, 6' something, so he has a bit of intelligence, but goes for me and my daughter. Has anyone successfully stopped this behaviour? I like him and would really rather not have to kill him but unprovoked attacks that draw blood cannot continue.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46362
Location: yes

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 15 6:30 pm Post subject:
after my encounter with rapist rooster my life saving suggestion is use a rifle and make a nice soup hansom is as hansom does .it is unlikely he will turn Buddhist as he gets more mature.

earthyvirgo

Joined: 24 Aug 2007
Posts: 7972
Location: creating prints in the loft, Gerlan

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 15 7:53 pm Post subject:
Sounds like Welsh Veg Grower's Jeremy who attacked her and her daughter, gorgeous looking bird but mean and vicious - I think he got the chop. EV

Tavascarow

Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 15 8:35 pm Post subject:

First thing if you do want to save him is trim his spurs so he can't wound as much. Large dog nail clippers or a dremmel.
I got a bad infection last year thanks to a cocks spurs.
I know this might sound cruel but if I've a nasty male; I carry a stick & give them a swipe if they frame up to me. A knock or two around the noggin & they nearly always avoid me after. I would definitely get your kids to do that.
At adult height it's usually the legs that get attacked but a six year old is lower & could get it in the face.

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 15 9:53 pm Post subject:
Stilts and a really big coat? Cardboard cutout? Are chickens hard to fool?

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 15 10:25 pm Post subject:
Chicken whisperer. That's not a constructive comment is it?

Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 15 8:01 am Post subject:
First suggestion - soup second suggestion - stick and dustbin lid (we used these with the geese). If you go for option 2, just bear in mind that if you have young visitors would you ever forgive yourself if he launched at them and scarred them for life? It was this that hardened me to always go for the soup option. I will not tolerate aggressive animals here.

Graham Hyde

Joined: 03 Apr 2011
Posts: 365

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 15 8:10 am Post subject:

Over here it would be easy. They still have cock fighting, the most popular 'sport' for the filipino male.
Three cockpits between here and Daet and all well attended on their three openings a week.
All my cocks are sold to locals @ 120 peso (70 peso to a pound) each who train them for fighting. I've never been to a fight but when they fight in training it is scary. To think of those spurs attacking a young child is horrifying.

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 15 8:13 am Post subject:
I cured one nasty old bugger by stamping, clapping and shouting VERY LOUDLY at im every time. Only had to do it twice.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 15 8:19 am Post subject:

mochyn wrote:

I cured one nasty old bugger by stamping, clapping and shouting VERY LOUDLY at im every time. Only had to do it twice.

I've been well behaved ever since.

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 15 8:29 am Post subject:

alison
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Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 12918
Location: North Devon

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 15 8:36 am Post subject:
We had one like this. His spur missed my youngest (3 1/2 at the time) eye by about 1/2 inch. Nice soup.

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 15 9:11 am Post subject:

Graham Hyde wrote:

Sorry Graham, I know it's the norm in that society currently and that it probably happens here as well but I'd rather kill them myself than have any part in perpetuating it.

This cockerel will be soup.

Graham Hyde

Joined: 03 Apr 2011
Posts: 365

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 15 9:23 am Post subject:

Hi Cathryn, yes, not a nice pastime is it.
I have always sold the cocks and didn't realise the intent of the buyers at first.
I will continue to sell and can't say to the buyer 'you have to eat these you know, no fighting'. I wish I could but it is the way of the world here.
Hopefully enlightenment will come.

Another habit I find disagreeable is that they eat eggs where the chicks are fully formed, feathers and all. Looking logically, eating day old eggs and twenty day old eggs is the same to the chick but the sight.....urgh.
Enjoy your soup.

Mutton

Joined: 09 May 2009
Posts: 1508

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 15 10:41 am Post subject:
We had one who attacked my legs. After a couple of weeks of being yelled at and lobbed sideways (in a way that didn't cause injury) he gave up and never did it again. Lobbed sideways as in detached from my leg and tossed up in the air so he flew. Then yelled at again if he looked like coming close. For whatever reason it was only me he went for.

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