PEDIATRICS Vol. 79 No. 3 March 1987, pp. 426-427
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Rooster Attacks on Children

GARY PREISER MD, FAAP1 and THOMAS E. LAVELL MD, FACS1

1 Delaware Valley Hospital, Walton, NY

No doubt minor rooster assaults go unreported. Indeed, I have solicited reports of rooster peckings, clawings, and spurrings from many local farmers. Today, in parts of the world where people live closer to their animals, I assume such attacks are more common and the risk to small children well appreciated. Avian attacks provoke badinage in the literature1-3 as well as serious reports of this recreational hazzard to joggers who violate the attacker's territory. The spectrum from large scalp lacerations inflicted by European buzzards4 to annoying pecks by red-winged blackbirds has been reported. In rural Delaware County in upper New York State, we treated two children seriously injured by roosters in the summer of 1985.

Submitted on April 28, 1986
Accepted on May 20, 1986




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