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coch is the look of my roos normal for you then? that stinks!
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coch is the look of my roos normal for you then? that stinks!
This is what I am dealing with... all because I didnt tame them enough to catch the rats and wax um up! idiot! My beautiful roosters are UGLY and NASTY! I may dub sporty still researching, I dont want to loose them! I will grow out more that I just hatched too. ugggggg DUMB!! I want to move south SOOOOO bad!! DH and I want to move to SC close to his Dad! JOBS are issues, I want a farm!!! lol money sucks
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coch is the look of my roos normal for you then? that stinks!
Yeah... Just about everyone up here understands that large combs won't last.
My 6 year old LF cochin rooster Tom has suffered frostbite every year. During the first year he lost all the points of his comb. The second he lost a bit more and so on. He has also lost a chunk of his wattles. Poor boy. Soon there won't be anything left to lose.
I panicked over the frostbite during my first winter. Sadly, now it seems normal.
Wow. My hens must really love Basil. He does that "tidbitting" every ten seconds, even with sticks. XD He also has a huge, bright red pea comb. XDTIDBITTING! ha! new word of the day! ha ha ha
Some info I didnt know had a name.... Roosters perform a little dance called ‘tidbitting’ in which they make sounds (food calls) and move their head up and down, picking up and dropping a bit of food. Researchers have found that females prefer males that often perform tidbitting and have larger, brighter combs on top of their heads.
A female chicken will mate with many different males but if she decides, after the deed is done, that she doesn’t want a particular rooster’s offspring and can eject his sperm. <GASPS> This occurs most often when the male is lower in the pecking order.