can you disarm a rooster?

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8. You can keep many roosters in line if you behave as an alpha.

From a pretty young age, we used to make our roo move out of the way for us (the kids included), i would occasionally make a point to walk where he was several times in a day (Walking calmly but deliberately as if i were heading somewhere and he was simply in my way) to make him move out of my way, i would prevent him (or any roo) from eating first when i put out treats, i would pick him up and run my finger over his comb (he detested this but tolerated it) and gently push his beak down into a submissive posture and i would not let him mate with a hen or crow dominance in my immediate presence.

Our main roo was a big boy and quite polite and generally kept the other roos in line. He was a Buckeye and they are generally agreeable in my experience. There is definitely an awful lot to be said for breed traits and individual personality with roosters. An overly aggressive roo can be a real problem.

We had one broody episode and she set on four eggs and hatched out three. We tried adding two day old chicks the first day but she rejected them. She was a great mother but we did keep her and the chicks separated from the flock.