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Cathryn



Joined: 16 Jul 2005
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Location: Ceredigion
PostPosted: Wed Mar 18, 15 5:40 pm    Post subject: Life saving suggestions Reply with quote
    



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: 45377
Location: yes
PostPosted: Wed Mar 18, 15 6:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Wed Mar 18, 15 7:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Wed Mar 18, 15 8:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Wed Mar 18, 15 9:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Stilts and a really big coat? Cardboard cutout? Are chickens hard to fool?

vegplot



Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd
PostPosted: Wed Mar 18, 15 10:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Chicken whisperer.

That's not a constructive comment is it?

Lorrainelovesplants



Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne
PostPosted: Thu Mar 19, 15 8:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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

PostPosted: Thu Mar 19, 15 8:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
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Location: mid-Wales
PostPosted: Thu Mar 19, 15 8:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
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Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd
PostPosted: Thu Mar 19, 15 8:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
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Location: mid-Wales
PostPosted: Thu Mar 19, 15 8:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    


alison
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Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon
PostPosted: Thu Mar 19, 15 8:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Thu Mar 19, 15 9:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Graham Hyde wrote:
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.


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

PostPosted: Thu Mar 19, 15 9:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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

PostPosted: Thu Mar 19, 15 10:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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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