Rural Gardening: How to raise a nice rooster, 1 by carolsucat

carolsucat wrote:
I think this is an interesting topic because I have some aggressive roosters! They're all banties but still....
Last year we ordered 25 St. run banty chicks. Of the 17 that survived our dog's attack(!) 5 turned out to be roosters. We have two beautiful black frizzles and 2 beautiful white roos and one very scraggly red! Since then, we've had two more roos hatch.

Except for the scraggly red and the babies, all the roos are aggressive especially with me--although they will attack my husband and I'm very cautious when I take my 6 yr. old grandson out there!

Personally, neither my husband nor I can bring ourselves to kill and eat these critters and I don't know what to do! Fortunately 3 of the aggressive ones automatically put themselves to bed in a separate unit from the hens so lately I've just been keeping them locked up. The one remaining aggressive one is a white one and since all the babies that have hatched so far are black, I'd kinda like to keep him for breeding purposes. Still, he's aggressive.

Is anyone out there interested in some black frizzles? How do I "dispose" of these angry fellows? We've thought about putting them in the pasture but I'd hate to invite predators although we have a donkey out there that probably keeps them away.

Help!

Carol