I have chickens more or less for fun. I have about 10 different breeds. The French Favorelles and the sweetest innately tame little twits I have. They are six toed, smallish and very pretty. I get about 15-20 eggs a day and give them away to neighbors and friends.
I have an Andalusian Rooster who is constantly on the attack. He has punched a few holes in my leg. To discourage sneak attacks,I have to beat him every morning as it is the only way I can safely feed the horses.
I get a kick out of my chickens! and eggs too!
When our kids were younger we let them raise some "fancy" chickens for 4-H (we mainly had black australorps). We had one little bantam rooster (can't remember what variety) that tried to terrorize everyone. It took several times of me kicking him through the goal posts before he backed off and gave us some space. Don't know if he got wise (doubt it), or I just rang his bell hard enough that he lost interest.
“I have an Andalusian Rooster who is constantly on the attack”
I had a Golden Polish rooster like that...hadda carry a bamboo cane to go in to feed and, even then, he was the master of sneak attacks. I was kinda glad when the bobcats had him for dinner.
It’s nice to see someone else that appreciates Faverolles. I also like Langshans and the tastiest of all French La Fleche.
I raised chicken for fun many years ago. The predators put me out of business pretty quickly.
I hatched some quail eggs because my husband wished for quail on our ranch., it is not in quail country. I started with 50 eggs, 25 hatched out, 12 lived to be old enough to be turned loose. My husband took them out to the ranch, when his father saw them he decided he would love to have a covey around the house just to watch. They were turned loose in the yard and the dogs killed them all in 2 hours. I was in no mood to try that again!
If you put pigtail wire caps on his spurs he wont punch holes in you.