I've raised tons of roosters and none have ever attacked me. My current 2 beg for food follow me around and love to be petted. I'm sorry you guys have had such a hard time with yours. I found it helps to handle roosters from when their young and continue to do so even as they are adults. Having more hens help. Pulling talons can help with them hurting you. They could just be stressed as well.

All of your children are absolutely delightful, but I needed to let you know your oldest seems to be growing up into a very fine young man! I can easily picture him as a very kind hardworking adult!

You can train your roosters To be respectful. I learnt the trick from other KZfaq homesteaders on here. Catch up the rooster and then with one hand put pressure on him to sit on the ground and using your thumb and first finger on the other hand put pressure on him to lay down his head. Then wait until he calms down before release. Repeat this daily for a few days up to a week and he will look at you very differently. The only damage being to his pride. I tried this on a friend's rooster that he was giving up on and has had no trouble since.

Thank you for showing your Roosters all together in their own area. We had a similar problem, but we were unsure of putting all the Roos together. After seeing you do it, we tried it and they are all now living happily together in a larger enclosure. Thank You for your videos.

i feel like we havent seen much of what joey gets up to on the farm and how he helps out... it was really cool seeing him chase the chicken back towards you while still being gentle enough to not hurt the chicken

I have a rooster who is a royal little nugget. He tried to attack me once. Fortunately he didn't hurt me. I have handled him ever since I had him has a cockrell. After that I went on KZfaq to search out deal with a rooster. I found this guy and he pinned the rooster on the ground including his head for 15 seconds. The bird was not harmed, just put in a submissive position. He also said anyone bothered by the bird has to do that. I did that and Doolittle my rooster he still charges, but he stops about 3 feet from me. A squirt bottle also helps too. Most importantly you got to do what you feel is best for your family. Which by the way you children are growing so fast. I love watching your channel. You and Becky are doing an awesome job!

Just watched your show and your Rooster the Silver Phoenix is what I have. Lucky for me only one and he is a mean one too. He has already attacked me off guard in the eye. Had to go to ER and lucky for me they did a CT scan. They found I had a brain tumor. People asked me if I have killed him yet? To that I say, "How do you kill something that just saved your life?" I hate him butt..... and life on my mini farm would be better without him. How did he get mixed in with a bunch of Easter egger's If he is a Silver Phoenix? The end of this story is the brain tumor is out and I'm recovering at home. I'm not myself yet but getting better with each day. I'm waiting for plastic surgery on my eye area and to align the eye ball with the other eye because he has caused me to have double vision. I was sitting down on my van steps and that rooster saw me when my head pooped from around the corner and sucker attacked me right off the step. Please be careful of your children with your Rooster. Thanks for sharing

Joey is a beautiful, smart and wonderful dog. I lLove how he helps out on the farm. The trainer-guy who said that Joey was not trainable and mean is proved to be so wrong.

Joey has good herding instincts.

Might want to get some sort of fly repellent on your heifers. They've been looking agitated the last few videos. Give them some relief til the snow comes. Hope your roosters settle down. They're beautiful!

How beautiful are those beautiful memories and well done for what you did to a family and what you offer to it with all your strength because you are a wonderful father with my mother who is mighty in your care and the care of your children, may God protect you and take care of you.

Beautiful homestead guys … lovin the birds n all … I can’t wait for the Aviary to be completed and see the birds inside enjoying all y’all hard work .. that is goin to be a beautiful site to be seen … ❤

I just love your videos! What an incredible family you have. Thanks for sharing so much of your life with us!

I used to donate my extra roosters to an elderly woman in the next town. She was on a fixed income and would slaughter her own and appreciated the birds.

20 years of raising chickens and only 2 were ever aggressive to people. They went to the stee pot. Too many nice roosters go to the stewnpit to justify keeping a bad one

We finally just added a roo to our flock- a friend had an extra and he is a silkie/Mille de fleur mix and he’s been very sweet. Only pecks when you’re trying to grab him out of the nesting boxes 🤣🐓😝

That's so funny at 2:18 it looked at first glance you had the camera on a possum, 😂

We just recently now have a rooster overpopulation. We have two that are great and a whole bunch little roos who our hens decided they wanted to hatch out a month ago. My favorite part is when they find that voice, its adorable until they figure it out.

I would be putting some bad roasters in my freezer

Damn Oreo and Barbie has gotten big. 😂”mini pigs”😂

Hey, you are one of my favorite channels❤️love your videos of your wonderful family. Can’t wait to see the aviary completed.

Wow, the red pheasant is really striking red. Pretty bird.

I had two roosters that would charge you and maul your foot 😂 There was this one time I had my back towards one of them, heard him charging and I turned around. He stopped and acted like nothing happened and walked off.

I can see that joey is doing a good job of helping you catch some escapers. Good to see that. Hope for more improvement 🥳

The chicken your dog was chasing felt like he was gonna die the way he was running outta breath at the end😂😂

Y'all have a great family

The best thing to do with a mean rooster is to flip them upside down. I have a rooster named will. He was a very mean bird. Whenever I would let the ladies out, he’d chase me and give me bruises from him attacking me with his spurs. My Aunt came over and taught me a good way to calm a rooster down. Simply grab the rooster by the feet, hang them upside down until their wings are open and they stop flapping. Hold them for awhile. This will show that your the boss. After doing this for a few days, they should no longer chase you.

I love y’all’s channel!! It has inspired me to get chickens!

So beautiful farm ❤

Joey is so cute! Also with my rooster we trim the spirs with a drimmle to keep them smooth and short so no one gets hurt ad bad (mainly the hens cause he's a nice rooster)

Roosters have no fear .. they fight to the death . If you hit them or swat at them...this to them means you want to fight . The only success I've had with aggressive birds is to grab them and hold them down with your hand on they're back . When they calm down and have submitted...let them go . This is the way they establish a pecking order. I have had birds that I thought for sure were gonna meet they're end . But after doing this a couple times thy "catch a grip" !! Lmao 🤣

i feel reely sorry for the chicken that was hiding in the grass at the end

I love that dog!🥰

love your vids especially the hatching projects♥️

There are so many beautiful roosters looking for homes. I've often thought of starting a rooster stud farm. There are places you can have chickens, but not roosters. And would like to hatch out some of their eggs.

I have a lone black silkie hen amongst a bunch of other hens and a roo. I’ve been searching for a silkie roo to try and breed in the spring. If you really want to re-home one, if love to give it a shot!

Some breeds are more aggressive than others but I have found that handling them often when small helps especially if you can intervene when they are being picked on. One of my kindest roosters was one that was picked on a lot when small and I would go out and scoop him up and hold him for a while just so he could rest. That rooster never once showed aggression to me his whole life, he also always made eye contact with me when I spoke to him. I have no doubt that was due to all the times I rescued him from being bullied.

I so wish yall were closer I lost my fizzle to my mom's turkeys this year 😢 if yall were closer to Mississippi I'd so buy one of your beautiful ones

Happy to see you your vidios take for ever

I had to laugh when you asked how many "male silky roosters" you had.... my guess would be all of them! Sorry, couldn't resist LOL

I love ur family bro…god bless u all❤❤

You brother just living my dream.

Hey hope your having a good year

This is really the only channel that I watch the sponsorships, because they're meaningful and all with your kids. I really enjoy these videos that you make and you put more than enough effort into it to make it quality.

Have you thought about getting any Yellow Gold pheasants? I have inter-breed the red and the yellow ...that throw both. Of coarse the Lady Amhearst are my fave. Can't wait to see the aviary finished!!! Love your channel...watching your youngins grown with your flock

I just love the way chickens stare at you when they give you that look mine they do that too but they loft one leg up while staring at me making a weird noise

i have a rooster just like these ones, his name is Gustavo he is a barred rock/silkie (possibly Bannie) mix, but he is abusive towards our hens and attacks my little brother a lot, but he is scared of us now so he isnt much of a riot now.

I am having to address my too many rooster on the farm problem this weekend.

Joey is such a good dog 👏

"Safe hands Jake!" think you missed your calling in life! You would have made a good goal keeper the way you snagged that silver phoenix rooster! Brilliant video and hopefully the rooster flock will work for you all, at least Becky will be safe from him from now on!

Happy to see you! Hope September has been going well for you all ❤

We have a young, big Delaware Rooster 🐓, anyone need 1, they're beautiful

I have found roos that grow up together tend to be friendlier towards each other. Otherwise it tends to be a bit more strained. I had my brahma roo and his son, and they couldn't stand each other, even though PB was 6 years old and wasn't doing much breeding anymore. But, on the other hand, I have my black jersey roo (Toecutter 6yrs) and his half Sussex son(TJ 3yrs) that always roost together and share a harem without any issues. I tend to keep my batchlors like you are, in their own groups without hens. Sometimes they end up meat birds, others are waiting for their hens to grow up to breeding age. I mostly have large breeds though, with a few old bantam. I try and keep my bantams separate from my standard and giants. I have actually had a couple accidents of giants stepping on bantams and hurting them. Though I recently received a young whitehackle roo that was being a trouble maker at a friend's place and put him in with 2 brahma girls. When he tried getting aggressive with Cleo, she would spin around and sit on him lol. He stopped being a jerk.

i feel the rooster problem. i grew up around over 300 chickens. bunch of different breeds, my dad was into poultry showing. and i remember always having issues with the light sussex roosters so i feel the pain.

We need one

I have a hen that pecks my legs sometimes however sadly the start of these week it got extremely beat up until the point where it was basically dying. I was at school and my dad found it laying there. A few hours later it got up but has brain damage or something because I sways when it walks and pecks in the wrong place when shown food, it’s constantly shaking and gets frighten when trying to touch it, it’s head is bloody.

love the videos keep the good work up!

Oh I love that Silkie❤️

I've noticed to have happy roosters we need more space and more hens, rule of thumb is 8-10 hens per rooster, we've had a few mean ones that had to go to the oven but we managed to make the rest nice and we had about 30+ at one point

I love your videos I have 3 chickens 2 frizzles and 1 bantam chochin mix.

Your vids make my day! ❤

If I was in US, I would have loved to get those roosters from you.

That black and white rooster was what my hen and rooster was supposed to be the size of but they became surprise beanies

Lots of roosters wow

That Silver Phoenix Rooster is one beautiful bird. Shame he is not staying and producing some off spring to sell.

My golden pheonix rooster has the same problem. But recently his son has been kicking him out of the coop so he hasn't been around to attack me. He flies out of the fence and stays in the woods during the day. Then he sneaks back in at night.

Can’t believe you don’t have 1 million subs yet.

I just wanted to say that I love your guys videos

I love your videos , life is good on the farm I can see it . everything thing is in perfect order you guy's have some adorable kid's , stay safe , happy & healthy much love from Georgia 💙💋 & happy fall 🍁🎃🍂🌾🎶

I really like the frizzle roosters

I think your the best inspiration for me

I used to have that problem like the white frizzled hen, i think its because of stress; stress because there are a lot of roosters

I use a fishing net to catch the little blighters, fast and less stress

We had a mean arse rooster when I was a kid. He used to chase my niece around and she absolutely hated him to no end. She was maybe two and he got her good one day and she went running to my dad crying. Well gpa picked her up and loved on her a bit and settled her down and then told her that if he hurt her again to tell him and we’d have fried chicken for dinner. I should add here that my daddy was a butcher and she was a farm girl through and through, so she knew what he meant. I was sitting on the porch and watching her play and that rooster puffed up to head her way and she saw him starting to come at her and she threw her hand up like a boss and yelled at him was some serious authority. He stopped, they stared at each other for a good few minutes and she stomped off and straight into the house. Well I obviously had to follow to see how this was gonna play out. She stomped her mad little self right up to paw paws recliner, woke him up and gave him an earful about that “dumb woosta”. Gpa stood up and took her by the hand and she stomped him right back out, pointed at the roster, stomped her foot, folded her arms and just glared at said rooster. Well, long story short, we did indeed have fried chicken for dinner. I thought for sure she was gonna lose her stuffing when daddy dispatched that “dumb woosta” but she watched the whole process and even helped him pluck it. She was happy to be done with him attacking her every time she turned around, but she does have a definite connection to where our food comes from as well as respect for the animals we eat. Asking her about it later in life if it scares or traumatized her she said no that it hadn’t but it was a learning experience for sure.

My frizzle molted bad there's a feed called feather fix works great

In our Village, we have a rule, if a rooster attacks us, next day it will be a chicken curry 😂✌🏻

Love your channel

I’m living for the “there goes Johnny Cash” 🤣

My sister had horrid roosters. Her kids went in pairs, 1 with feed, the other to play Rooster Ball (kicking or pushing the attackers away). I only had NICE roosters. I raised them all & was really involved with them. No trouble & even my geese were lovey to me & my kids. Not my hub or his friends that lived on our land. Best fortune with ur flock

So are the silkie frizzle hybrids called SIZZLES🤣

Even the smallest would make good chicken stock that you could put up for winter soups.

Big fan from 🇰🇪 Kenya !

Rooster feathers can be used in fly tying ... And you can eat them just got to cook them like you would a brisket .

I live in Washington State, I'm small flock farming and would love an expansion of Cochin roo, a 6 pack of girls for him and a starter pack of Cornish cross.

A top to a guinea pig cage works great to catch chickens. You can slap it down over them and then open the top door to take them out.

That an awesome set up. What kind of poles did you use for turkey corrals?

Maybe you need ear fly tags. They work great to reduce flys on your cows!

We have also raised roosters some time they attack..so that normal

Hope that the farm will function smoother now that you’ve tried to resolve the rooster problem, I recommend maybe putting some more roosters from the rooster coop in a different coop.

Coq au vin is a great recipe for roosters.

Where have all of you been? I miss seeing you.

I'd love to have a non feather footed banty rooster! Maybe someday.

There’s a video on spur removal. I was doubtful but it worked. They grow back just like our nails and it wasn’t hard to do.

Love you guys that you don’t kill for the sake of it xx I can’t wait to see a baby calf on the ground soooo excited xx love from the east coast of England 🇬🇧 xx ❤

Chicken soup rooster style

2:16 I thought I was looking at an opossum for a second.

Peekaboo drumming is the most raptor sounding noise I've ever heard

So many alarm clocks! 😆

I have been hatching out a lot of baby chicks and I have a lot of roosters to deal with and I never thought of putting them all in one area together without hens thanks for the idea 😊

Love your content keep up the good work