Who has the best rooster

Ha, yeah from 100 - 0 they just slam on the brakes

sdm111 said:

This cock here is a good example IMO very docile, I can pick him up hold him no problems he stands back at feeding time and let's his 2 hens eat first, maintains the nest boxes for them, alerts at flyovers and stands guard like in this photo

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Interesting chook, looks like he's in good health too, and a decent rooster to boot. Or is that cockerel? His spurs are short.

What sort is he, if you don't mind my asking?

I used to take it for granted that fully healthy chooks with pale skin would have bright red faces, wattles, combs etc, but I've seen so many pale-faced adults on this forum that I realize it's not as ubiquitous as I had thought. Mainly based on diet and partly on genetics and environment it seems, from my experience.

Always good to see a bird with great peripheral circulation, speaks well of the rest of their overall health, especially of the cardiovascular system. Means they're getting sufficient oxygenation to all extremities, unlike many birds you see these days.

Best wishes.

Pinkaboo said:

Only two months old and crowing like a pro
Go lemon mille Fleur sablepoot!

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Hope it doesn't stunt his growth, lol. I had a precocious few littlies, starting to mate, crow, develop adult male feathering etc at stupidly young ages (youngest one was 4 weeks and he wasn't crowing but he was mating all over the place, his whole body was still small enough to fit into a normal coffee cup and his mother, the target of his affections, was very displeased about it)...

Cute little fella though, if it's a trait his breed is known for I expect it might not be a serious issue.

Best wishes.

evemfoster said:

I think the conditions the Rooster is expected to guard the hens in makes a big difference in what behaviors to expect.

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I'd agree overall but just add that if his recent ancestry contains no opportunity to have those instincts stimulated, acted on, reinforced and passed on, then these behaviors can be lacking even when he's got the right environment; it can take a few months or years or even generations to rouse them again once they've gone dormant.

Some individuals never get smarter in their lifetimes. Definitely though giving them the environment to be as natural as possible opens the door to many latent instincts. I've actually found a positive correlation between docility towards humans and flockmates, and increased instinct levels, not the reverse as is often assumed to be the case. The spackiest, least tame, most aggressive birds I ever had also had the least instincts, as a rule.

Best wishes.

Thankyou for the compliment on my fowl. He is a Lloyd miner blue and at that time a bullstag at approx. 13 mo old. The Lloyd miner blue fowl come any mix of colors and about 99.9% of the time big black eyes with black eyeliner makes them look very intimidating eventhough they are very docile.

I've never even heard of that breed before, sounds interesting. Looks like you've done well by him. Are they a landrace or something, since their colors are so variable?

Best wishes.

Other than the red jungle fowl I guess one could call all domesticated chickens landrace. Most all games are a family derived from specific crossing to achieve what one is seeking to produce the ultimate gamecock. So yeah I suppose it is. The one thing that does happen with mine personally is that they never look like another breed standard.

I reckon most highly productive meat and egg breeds are far too inbred now to be called landrace, some industry reports state they've lost over 50% of their ancestral genetics. Sounds like an interesting breed you've got. I had something like that once, but he was definitely a mixed breed, not pure anything.

Best wishes.

High percentage yes but, they were bred for a specific purpose and that surely has been achieved

Another drastically different from the other miner yet nothing like another breed's standard. Please don't mind the background it was our rainy season

chooks4life said:

The spackiest, least tame, most aggressive birds I ever had also had the least instincts, as a rule.

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I have certainly observed that to be true. The meanest rooster I ever had was a Golden Polish rooster named Ivan. Golden Polish are typically a docile breed, but Ivan was a terror, attacking and attempting to spur anything and everything in his vicinity. Interestingly enough, he never attacked me, but everyone else was a target. He was a gorgeous bird, but absolutely worthless for anything but terrorizing people, including my own family members, so I had to remove him from my flock.

sdm111 said:

Another drastically different from the other miner yet nothing like another breed's standard. Please don't mind the background it was our rainy season

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Ah lol, the rainy season, good at making most people look like their animal husbandry is at fault to the casual and short term observer. Interesting variability in the breed.

Michael OShay said:

I have certainly observed that to be true. The meanest rooster I ever had was a Golden Polish rooster named Ivan. Golden Polish are typically a docile breed, but Ivan was a terror, attacking and attempting to spur anything and everything in his vicinity. Interestingly enough, he never attacked me, but everyone else was a target. He was a gorgeous bird, but absolutely worthless for anything but terrorizing people, including my own family members, so I had to remove him from my flock.

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Good on you for doing what was necessary for the safety of your family and other chooks. Too many people endanger lives because 'he's pretty' (usually what they say). Good roosters are 'pretty' too, and there's something about a decent mindset that ennobles an individual animal, giving them even greater beauty in my sight --- probably the absence of the 'evil eye' that vicious roosters and hens perpetually cast upon the world around them, lol, that thing is ugly in and of itself. Maybe also a bit because decent natured animals have a sort of stately calmness and steadiness about them whereas vicious ones have more antsy, spacky movement habits.

Best wishes.