he respects the spay bottle with the ammonia in it. it's just that no one else wants to deal with him. since i got some new chicks, i'm thinning the old out. he's going along with a couple of hens that don't lay anymore. yeah, i could kill him here, but i can take him to the feed store and someone can have him for dinner. i really, really, hate plucking chickens. have not had to since i was a teen, but that smell comes back to me when i think about it. :-P