Cockerel attacking me- help please!

[russianhorse]

Oh I've got 2 cockerals who were hatched at my sons preschool (was given 6 chicks, 2 turned into the cockerals, 4 hens)

Mine are absolutely vicious - have drawn blood from the kids legs as well - I've been okay due to quick kicking instincts

However to feed them I take a bit of wood but they won't let me near their pen . Have thought about doing the deed, but I can't

 

[Roasted Chestnuts]

Oh I've got 2 cockerals who were hatched at my sons preschool (was given 6 chicks, 2 turned into the cockerals, 4 hens)

Mine are absolutely vicious - have drawn blood from the kids legs as well - I've been okay due to quick kicking instincts

However to feed them I take a bit of wood but they won't let me near their pen . Have thought about doing the deed, but I can't

If ours hadnt taken a telling then he would have had his neck wrung. If yours arent then Id see if local farmer type would do it for you. I have no bother doing it myself and Im glad ours took the telling.

 

[russianhorse]

If ours hadnt taken a telling then he would have had his neck wrung. If yours arent then Id see if local farmer type would do it for you. I have no bother doing it myself and Im glad ours took the telling.

I know of a farmer that merrily does it, but a) how do I catch and transport the blinking things and b) I cant help but feel awful for putting them to death......afterall I raised the nasties

God, i shouldnt have animals.......I'm bl**dy useless at making sensible decisions about them

 

[MotherOfChickens]

wait until its dark and they are roosting, pick up and put in a pet basket (preferably a top opening one)-take to whoever knows how to do it.

its an unfortunate fact of chicken breeding and think people should know how to despatch in case they ever really need to (afraid my chooks don't get to the vets).

 

[juliette]

My daughter has 4 bantams. A friend gave her some fertile eggs for her broody to sit on - resulting in one cockeral - great!

Said cockeral (Wizz) was looked after by mother hen (Houdini) , who turned from "shy hen", "to killer get away from my baby hen" so we did not handle the cockeral at all. Wizz turned into a horrible monster after a few months. As soon as I let the chickens out in the morning he would fly at me and chase me off! I hated it, my husband thought it was a fantastic spectator sport and every day would get up to watch out the bedroom window!

Wizz did not improve his behaviour so we took him to my friends and chucked him in a coop with 200 hens and 2 large cockerals, funnily enough, he started to toe the line after that!