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farts_n_darts t1_jca1kpe wrote

Roosters are either sweet lovebugs or hell in feathers. There is no in between.

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ExternalIllusion t1_jcacltl wrote

Haha. Really? Never have interacted with one. People say cows can be assholes too but I’ve only met sweet ones. And I’ve read enough about geese on here that I have no interest lol.

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xX420GanjaWarlordXx t1_jcahh6k wrote

I've hand raised chickens with one rooster. The hens would follow just like the video. The rooster would try to murder us. We would have to run from the car to the house so he wouldn't claw the back of our legs with his talons.

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hatwobbleTayne t1_jcbd5qn wrote

Do the chickens have large talons?

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Kaevek t1_jcbqiq1 wrote

They get larger as they age. Our oldest rooster have several inch long talons that are pretty sharp. Our youngest one has stumpy little ones haha

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hatwobbleTayne t1_jcbvtqc wrote

I was making a Napoleon Dynamite reference, a bit of a deep cut I guess LOL

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Kailmo t1_jcco2x7 wrote

I heard his voice when I read it.

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higster94 t1_jcde7i3 wrote

Even better haha!!! Past our prime lol. We could both probably throw a football over them mountains

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MauPow t1_jcdmo0s wrote

Woulda won state if coach'd put me in, no doubt in my mind

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HouseOfSteak t1_jcd3om8 wrote

While this is a Napoleon Dynamite reference, roosters actually do have a track record for killing people.

Jump, claw, femoral artery.

Dead in 4 minutes.

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higster94 t1_jcddyck wrote

Haha!

“You think someone wants to take a roundhouse to the face, while I’m wearing a pair of these badboys?!? FORGET ABOUT IT!”

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X_Irradiance t1_jcdo9fj wrote

I’m wearing those exact pants right now. They’re extremely comfortable.

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Kuhn_Dog t1_jcak18v wrote

My friend had a rooster when we were in middle school. I remember walking onto his patio with a pizza that we were going to eat and the rooster chased me across the yard until I threw a pizza slice at him. He ate the pizza and left us alone after haha. They can be mean bastards

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Tom1255 t1_jcblizn wrote

My brother used to be scared of a certain aggressive rooster when he was like 5 or 6. Rooster would always chase him down around the yard, and tried to attack his head, by jumping/flying into my brother.

Thas was until my dad gave my brother a solid wooden stick, and send him on the yard with it. Rooster attacked as usual, but got beaten the shit out of by my brother with the help of the stick. Rooster never attempted to bother him again.

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Hooliganisms t1_jccgps9 wrote

Ha I just watched my aunt's chickens for a week. She has two roosters. One spurred me (he had been de spurred cause my aunt got sick of his shit) twice within 5 mins of being there. It still hurt especially since he got me in the knee. The other rooster attacked him for attacking me. I would cheer him on. He tried a third time I kicked in the head gave him a factory reset. He didn't fuck with me for two days. Then tried it again and I hit him in the head with an empty food scoop. After that he didn't do anything for the rest of the week.

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GrandmasBoyToy69 t1_jccgkyf wrote

I would of had fresh fried-chicken after the first week of that

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elscallr t1_jccveki wrote

The rooster followed you too, he just had different intentions.

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Ichthyologist t1_jcar33i wrote

A cow nearly stomped a relative of mine to death on his dairy farm, so some of them are assholes; particularly if they have a calf.

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Ichthyologist t1_jcbf42z wrote

Edit: I see the vegans are down voting. He ran a small, clean, pasture grazed dairy farm in Central NY for 45 years. Those cattle were happy.

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Academic_Gazelle_340 t1_jcc3maj wrote

> I see the vegans are down voting

Sure, make this about identity politics rather than facing the fact that he was needlessly exploiting and harming animals.

In that industry, their calves are taken from them and you even specified that the cows were 'assholes' more so when they had calves.

I wonder why your uncle was nearly stomped to death and why these cows were becoming more hostile and aggressive after having calves in an industry where those calves are taken from them for further exploitation and abuse. 🤔

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Ichthyologist t1_jcc67me wrote

This is exactly why I said that. Thank you for the perfect example.

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EcoEchos t1_jcc8dbm wrote

> I see people who are against animal abuse are down voting

There, I fixed it for you.

Sorry not sorry your relative was almost killed by the animals they were exploiting and abusing for profit.

Vegans aren't to blame for people identifying and acknowledging the cows are not the assholes in your story.

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Raul_Coronado t1_jccjia5 wrote

Morality is relative, if the storyteller says someone or something is an asshole thats it. You can tell your own story, which you did, but since you don’t have any access to the primary source its not surprising if your version doesn’t have a sense of authenticity.

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Academic_Gazelle_340 t1_jcck3zv wrote

> its not surprising if your version doesn’t have a sense of authenticity.

Right, because exploitation and abuse aren't inherently part of the dairy industry.

No wait, those industries would not exist if not for the exploitation and abuse.

It should not be surprising that animals would become defensive over their children in such industries.

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ThugExplainBot t1_jccq16n wrote

Gets mad at identity politics, literally uses identity politics to assume his uncle was a bad cattle raiser.

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Academic_Gazelle_340 t1_jchnzrz wrote

His uncle was needlessly harming and exploiting those animals for his own profits. It's literally inherently part of the business he chose to run.

What does identity politics have anything to do with that?

Am I also playing into identity politics by saying a Bus driver drives buses?

I think you're confusing job title with identity politics bud.

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lnfinity OP t1_jcc1ec3 wrote

I bet they weren't happy when their calves were separated from them. What happened to the male calves who would never produce milk?

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Academic_Gazelle_340 t1_jcc453y wrote

He ran a dairy farm (where calves are taken from the parents and the cows are exploited and abused) yet he has the nerve to call the cows the assholes for becoming more hostile and aggressive over protecting their calves...

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Ichthyologist t1_jcc6v24 wrote

These cows were NOT abused. I get where you're coming from, I do. But you don't know, so don't claim that you do.

I'm a conservation biologist and a vegetarian and I worked on that farm as a teen. They were treated as well as household pets.

You don't get to say I've got the "nerve" when you're making sweeping generalizations yourself.

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Academic_Gazelle_340 t1_jcc7u2q wrote

What happened to all the male cows who could not produce milk?

How did cows become pregnant in the first place?

You can claim and shout that they weren't abused all you like if that helps convince yourself. Abuse is inherent in the industry.

edit: Notice how this user refused to answer any of these very simple questions while continuing to shout "iTz nOt AbUsE!".

Yep, very convincing.

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Ichthyologist t1_jcc9g31 wrote

You think grazing animals in the wild aren't pregnant every year? You think AI is abuse? This is why you get kickback from society. You have no room for gray in your black and white world.

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Academic_Gazelle_340 t1_jcclr4h wrote

> You don't think grazing animals in the wild aren't pregnant every year

How does this justify forcefully inseminating them (aka raping them) as a human?

> You have no room for gray in your black and white world.

Correct. I will not compromise when it comes to needlessly violently exploiting and abusing innocent animals for pleasure. There is no room for that form of 'grey' in my world.

Abusing and exploiting animals for pleasure is not necessary. This is a simple fact that also does not concern itself with making room for "gray".

> This is why you get kickback from society.

Nope. It's because these simple facts challenge consumer behaviors and pleasures that people's egos are attached to.

Exposure to this information over time will weaken the ego so these people can accept these simple facts and this trend is already observable on this platform. There is far less "kickback" from society the more educated society becomes on this topic and the information is spreadsing. The same exact dynamic also played out for the public's perception of cannabis. The masses were propagandized against it for ages and also "kickbacked" in the face of simple facts on the topic. Facts are facts, however. The ego can only try to block out facts for so long before eventually realizing the fact wasn't ever the problem, but the ego's attachment to the topic at hand.

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Ichthyologist t1_jcctmvb wrote

Right. So it's not worth having a debate with you.

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Academic_Gazelle_340 t1_jchmfum wrote

Because there is no debate to be had.

Sorry not sorry it offended your fragile ego to discover abusing and exploiting animals is not necessary. Simple facts do not concern themselves with the 'debates' of fragile egos.

edit: I love how you also refused to answer the most simple of questions in this thread (posed by different users) which would reveal whether or not those cows were treated well. Keep trying to convince yourself though.

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GalacticDystopia t1_jcbxseh wrote

First I've heard of cows being dicks. I mean, I'm sure a bull can be dickish, but the cows? Have yet to encounter a mean one.

Quite the contrary. Any group of cows I've been around tend to slowly surround me as if I'm some deity about to address them.

Awesome creatures, they are

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kungfubellydancer t1_jcbxdw7 wrote

We have a lot of chickens but one in particular named Slim Thug is a sneaky little fucker when he wants to be. He can’t ever win against our other rooster Muff-head who is much bigger and has longer spurs than him, so he takes out his frustration on us whenever he sees us bending down and tries to spur us from behind. He also takes offense to images on our pants and especially hates my Nightmare Before Christmas pajama pants and will try to spur Jack Skellington on them.

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ChizzleFug t1_jcbyx5j wrote

Roosters will try to fuck up anything, regardless of it's size to protect their hen(s). Even something like a mountain lion, a rooster will not back down and just die.

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txlessor t1_jccqt4n wrote

Mine, RIP, came defective. Hawk attacking the hens? I'll run away without a sound. Me, who brings food, water, and treats. He would make the warning sound every time and try to attack every 6 months... He would charge me then get punted across the yard and behave for another 6 months.

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LukeDude759 t1_jcc6g49 wrote

I remember a cow charged at me once when I was at my uncle's farm when I was maybe five years old. Thankfully he picked me up over the fence before it could trample me.

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AcedPower t1_jcdv7fy wrote

My mom has a flock of chickens. Two of her roosters tried jumping me, one from the right, one from the left. Personally, I've never met a rooster that's not an asshole.

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b1ack1323 t1_jcd0pen wrote

My eighth birthday, I was walking back to my house from the yard. The rooster started coming after me, so I started sprinting. It was the one fucking day my parents locked the house. Ever. In 17 years living with them, one time.

That rooster clawed and pecked the fuck out of my legs.

It’s okay though, a month later he tremors coming after me while I was riding my dirt bike.

The dirt bike definitely won.

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theroadlesstraveledd t1_jcd145r wrote

There are only sweet cows. Roosters can be evil or just butter bellies and sometimes both I know a rooster who has preferences and was butter to some and evil to everyone else

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Epena501 t1_jcbhfz2 wrote

Had a baby chick that was lovable when small. It turned out to be a rooster and when it hit adulthood it was a feathered Velociraptor that owned our backyard. You couldn’t go back there without being chased around by this evil spawn.

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zeke235 t1_jcaxcxl wrote

Sometimes you get both in the same rooster!

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MaracaBalls t1_jcb74q8 wrote

If raised as a pet they will be sweet, I used to have one; sadly I can no longer pet my cock. I miss my cock

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the_goodnamesaregone t1_jcctzcf wrote

I wound up with more roosters than can fit in my laying flock. 2 of them just chill with the goats. It's interesting to watch the dynamic. They're just like, "welp, I guess we're with you guys now."

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ellecon t1_jces719 wrote

A cock is either your best friend or your worst enemy

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