can you disarm a rooster?

[fasttense]

19. Yes we tried those too

It was the funniest thing in the world to watch the hens try and get them off. Every single hen from buff Orpington to Rhode Island Reds managed to squirm out of them by the next day.

We decided to just keep the number of roosters down to an absolute minimum (one rooster to 20 hens) instead of trying to put saddles on our bare backed chickens.

I always keep at least on rooster with the hens. It's how nature intended it. Only a few got brave enough to attack people and they went into the pot. For the most part, our roosters leave us alone and we leave them alone, as long as they are not sick. I've never trimmed their beaks or their spurs. Since I've kept the roosters down to very few, we have had no problems with bareback chickens anymore.