Talk to me about roosters, please :)

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Actually, the first "homegrown" chicken we ate was a rooster. It had been a bit rude to the kids, but slowly kept getting worse. He finally started actually attacking the kids. So, we killed him and put him in a casserole. All of my kids loved it! They kept stabbing into the casserole and were thrilled that they got to eat the rooster that had pecked them.

I am always so scared of the roosters poking out the eyes of my little ones.
 
When you first get your chicks to tell if its a hen or not you hold the chick's leg upside down but you cant do it when the chicken gets to big it will hurt them but fine when they are little any way if the chick holds it self up then it is a rooster but it dangles its a hen.
 
We were giving 2 hens and a rooster last year, brown leghorns. My rooster was fine a great bird, protecting his flock. They free range all day. Lock up at night and open in morning. One morning for no reason, I open the door and he charges and attacks me. Scared me so bad, but that's a long story. After that, I couldn't go outside without my husband without him charging me. Even then we would try unless my husband interfered. We tried everything to get him to accept ME.
He would be so mean in the morning when my husband would let him out we stopped locking the door. It helped a little, until one morning there was no Grumpy ( our rooster). Just feathers in various places and that was it. Grumpy and my husband had a weird relationship, my husband in charge but Grumpy always trying to dominate.
We have 3, 6 week olds girls and WILL be getting another rooster. Even though he traumatized me, he did his job and took care of his girls.
 

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