Ha! Speaking of mean roosters, my little Audrey got attacked by her rooster today. She is the funniest little kid, always playing with the chickens and the rooster. The rooster has gone after all of them (my daughter, the older two kids) but it was very tame for Audrey and she’d pick it up and walk around with it. Well, today, for the first time, she was walking up to him and he jumped up and spiked her in the leg with its spur. Nasty thing. I don’t know whether it had anything to do with him being a recent newlywed or not. lol
I had bought a beautiful rooster hot my dad’s hens. He was fine until my dad killed a few hens. After that it took two people to gather eggs, one to keep rooster occupied by taunting him into chasing you, and the other to grab the eggs.
I have had them be very sweet until they were about a year old. The good thing is they are very protective of their flock, the bad news is they can really do a number with those talons. There is a method for taking the hard outer sheath off the talon that some people do. Personally, I just go in there with a hoe - after flying at me a few times and running into the hoe, he keeps his distance. He must think it is my very long talon 😂