My grandmother raised a lot of chickens but i don't recall ever having to put down a rooster for being to aggressive. You should video tape it then when your son is a teenage and giving you a hard time you can blackmail him with the video of him getting his ass kicked by a chicken
Do you plan on eating any of your chickens? If you do you might as well throw this guy in a stew pot and give 5 or 6 more. Keep the best behaved and make soup out of the rest. If you let them breed you are going to end up with a lot more roosters than you want anyways and dinner is the best use for extra chickens.
We plan on eating this rooster if he can't get over this dominance issue. I will try to give him time to understand the pecking order. I have a laying flock, and if the rooster is well-behaved, I can let him fertilize the eggs, we will let the motherly hens brood chicks and we can eat the cockerels while always getting new layers. If we don't want more chickens, I can just eat the eggs instead of letting one of the motherly girls sit on them for hatching. I bought dual purpose birds for this reason.
I didn't plan on eating my FIRST rooster though, I was hoping he would last through the spring and he could give me a clutch of chicks in April.
*MySmiley*
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I believe all news and research that supports my opinion, and dismiss the rest as conspiracy and lies.
My Rooster has learned Kung Fu.
- 26/09/2011 04:21:53 PM
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take the kids advice and eat him
- 26/09/2011 06:03:49 PM
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All the hens are well-behaved.
- 26/09/2011 07:04:36 PM
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Why must you women constantly try to emasculate us? 
- 26/09/2011 06:16:43 PM
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- 26/09/2011 06:16:43 PM
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The likelihood of him harming one of use before his spurs grow in are minimal.
- 26/09/2011 07:06:15 PM
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