Search results for query: *

Hey Lisa, thanks for your reflections. I am happy to talk more about the word rape in context to human anthropomorphizing onto animals and our perceptions. There are many human communities removed from our first world (academic or otherwise) culture in which men routinely choose the women they...

I always wonder about our human perceptions reflected onto the birds. It's hard to be completely unbiased, as we only have our own experiences to go from. However, animal behavior and complex human thought are not even close. Animals work on pure instincts, where as people use emotion and our...

I find that even when the rooster is nice to his flock and older hens had pecked him into line, he can still be a terror to you. It's about having confidence in the coop and also not letting the big boy push you around. As I said in an earlier comment, I pick up my rooster and carry him around...

My first rooster started getting aggressive after he'd settled in with the hens for a few months. By picking him up and walking around with him while checking the hen house every evening, I'd pet and talk to him about being a nicer guy. After a week of handling him, the charging and kicking...