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One of my girls feathers are in pretty bad shape. She must be their favorite. Dogs got two of my rooster so maybe that will help. Now we have one adult and one juvenile who mostly runs, lol. The girls all follow the older one now and he seems to be taking over being El Hefe. I think they were...

I hate it when chickens bite. Pecking is not so bad but biting has brought blood. I use to have a juvenile cochin mix that would bite me every chance it got.

My sweet neighbor lady gave me some roosters. The two red with green black tail feathers look like maybe game-type birds. The other two are a black sex link and what is probably another black sex link. My production red and cochin mix pullets are not all that impressed. The fellas like the girls...

Roosters are like dogs. They don't know their size.

My BSL is a brat but he's good to his girls. When I was overrun with roosters him and the rest of the boys would spend most their times fighting with the boys and driving the pullets crazy. One would hop off and another would hop on, again and again, but since they are all gone but the one, he...

When I had game rooster, none ever attacked us but those dog gone black sex links are bad. We only have one left and he chases my sons all over the yard. I keep telling them to stand up for themselves but he has his bluff in. Thank goodness his spurs aren't very big yet. Since he's the last one...

I did have the dogs penned up and I have been trying to give the dogs away ever since my son brought the dogs home. My son let the dogs out AFTER the chickens were put up for the night. I told him after about 20 minutes to lock them back up and he told me he did. I never let them loose when my...

My son's two little stray mutts he rescued got out and killed one of my cockerels and we had to run and rescue two more birds before we caught them. If I had a gun I would shoot them. This is the second bird they've killed. I am so mad at these dogs and the people that dumped them out on our...

My BSL cockerels will hump anything including each other. They are little horndogs. They are almost 30 weeks old and are getting better but my pullets still run from them. They are not gentlemen but really rough. The are quiet a bit bigger than my production red pullets and even my one BSL...

I'm so happy to see my cockerels starting to try to protect my girls. My little Chihuahua showed a little too much interest in them and a couple of them turned into giant, flapping avengers. It was quiet a sight. They didn't actually touch her because she trotted around the corner oblivious to...

I am down to 7 cockerels 28 weeks old and 7 pullets, 5 which are also 28 weeks and 2 which are about 24 weeks. My rowdy boys will try jumping them first thing when I let them off the roost but then the pullets go their way and the boys another for most of the day (they are free range)...

I have a new pup. A little stray my son decided we just had to have. He is a sweet little thing. Looks like maybe a cocker mix. My boys have their bluff over him. He goes near them and they fluff up and start flapping their wings. It is quiet impressive.

I have way too many boys. I'm down to 8, but I know it's too many. All mine free range over a couple of acres. They don't fight too much and although I only have 7 pullets they don't really bother them much. The girls take off in the morning for the nearby wooded creek bank and the boys pretty...

One of my BSL cockerels really stands out, he is definitely the BOSS. I plan on keeping him last in case I decide to keep him. They are people friendly but this could change as they turn into roosters. My pullets generally stay away from them most the time. One or two will hang out with the boys...

I'll mention that. Good idea!

He wanted to enter the best in the county fair so he wanted to be able to tell which one at a glance. He was going to take it off when he entered it but they wouldn't let him because the fair people thought a judge had put it on for some reason (?). Why, they would I don't know and he just never...

My black sex link cockerels (I had 12 at one time) were real brats when they were 3 months old. That's when they started 'feeling their oats', lol. Now I have 8 left and they are almost 23 weeks old and they are so much better. They still have their bratty moments but they are never mean to us...

Yeah, but it was a different son that did the zip tie. The one that did the tie didn't believe me when I told him what could happen. He was truly sorry for not listening to me. He loves all our birds even the ones we intend to butcher. I probably would have had him do it but he is gone for a few...

I've been seeing one of my cockerels limping. I knew it probably had something to do with the zip tie one of my kids put on his leg. I told my son to get it off but it didn't happen. I caught it on the roost this a.m. and sure enough it was deep in his leg. I tried cutting it off but couldn't so...

MICROCHICK you are so right about roosters. I don't think roosters should be pets and I'm not sure about the hens. I like to grab one of my chickens now and then just to look them over and feel how they are fleshing out, how the bottom of feet look but other wise I let them be. Now if they would...