This cockerel's days might be numbered
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (381760)
Rockingham, Australia
June 22, 2023 8:46pm CST
At our current house-sit, there is a large pen with perhaps 20 or 30 laying hens and two big white roosters. The birds are fed morning and night but are kept shut up until around midday. This ensures that most of the eggs are laid before they’re let out to forage in the paddocks. We’re collecting around 12 to 16 eggs a day.
One of the roosters has become very savage and flies at us every time we go in the yard. You can see his talons/spurs in the photo. If he connected, we could get badly scratched but we’ve now found a solution and take a garden rake into the pen with us. We can fend him off quite easily with this but he still insists on attacking it.
I think he might be made into chicken soup once the owners return.
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
23 Jun 23
He's tired of you taking his babies away from his hens... It's understandable behavior but I wouldn't like him being aggressive, either.
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
23 Jun 23
@JudyEv Oh, yeah... and he looks like he'll make some good soup, too. 
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@BarBaraPrz (51811)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
23 Jun 23
@DaddyEvilI thought of that, too.
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
23 Jun 23
How rude of the rooster! He needs a talking to. Have a great day.
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
24 Jun 23
@JudyEv That's good. I hope you and the crew enjoy the rest of your weekend.
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@MarieCoyle (59106)
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23 Jun 23
Sometimes, they just turn mean. And they stay that way, you are correct. He may be slated for the cooking pot soon!
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@JudyEv (381760)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 Jun 23
@MarieCoyle I'm going to wave the axe at him.
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@MarieCoyle (59106)
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23 Jun 23
@JudyEv
Maybe you should threaten him with a stewpot!
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@snowy22315 (208746)
• United States
23 Jun 23
Well, at least you won't have to deal with him any more.
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@JudyEv (381760)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Jun 23
Two more sleeps and we'll be heading home for a rest! 
@JudyEv (381760)
• Rockingham, Australia
25 Jun 23
He is handsome but quite dangerous when he flies at you with his talons out.
@wolfgirl569 (135583)
• Marion, Ohio
23 Jun 23
Glad they warned you. I had one that would attack a shovel. That mean thing sold for 16 dollars at auction after trying to attack people from his cage
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@wolfgirl569 (135583)
• Marion, Ohio
24 Jun 23
@JudyEv I was very surprised. He was old enough I didn't want to mess with butchering him
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@RasmaSandra (97912)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
24 Jun 23
Aww poor rooster but if it does happen he should go in style in a French coq au vin,
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@xFiacre (14782)
• Ireland
23 Jun 23
@Judyev Roosters can indeed be vicious. We had one particular enormous brute the attacked anyone who went near it but my brother was able to pick him up, cuddle him and even bath him. Our hens were free range and dropped eggs all over the place. Some of them came into the house in the early morning to do so - one in the living room hearth, another on top of the wardrobe in my bedroom, and announced their achievements in the customary way and the was no sleep to be had after that.
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@Beestring (15373)
• Hong Kong
23 Jun 23
Sounds he's quite aggressive. Stay alert.
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