In Honor of Ginger: Share your Rooster pictures here!

[Chicken Tamer]

We were never quite sure something respiratory
He suffered for a month

Have ur other birds started dieing??

 

[ChickadeeRanch]

He is quite handsome for a Pig pen!

 

[Cochaura]

RIP Max - can't find my picture of him as an adult, but this was our handsome roo. He died a brave death fighting for his ladies.





These (except for the black/grey ones) are his offspring with our Easter Eggers...sadly some roos have to go to new homes tomorrow, but can't keep them all. Both the pullets and cockerels turned out to be quite adorable with their mixture of feathery feet and mustaches

 

[Cochaura]

"Pig Pen" We named him this because he looks dirty. He is a Splash Orpington. Pic was taken at 20 weeks. He is 7 months now. He already weighs 9-10lbs. His dad(HinkJC bird) was about 14lbs and massive.(Mom was an American blood line Orp)

That's a great name Very cool looking bird!

 

[fuzzybutt love]

My rooster was also a hatchery boy, a little EE that i picked out of the bin at our supply store. He stood so proud and cocked his little eye at me, i just knew he was "my" roo! I bought him and a half dozen RIR hen-chicks. At 3 mo, i had a great coon raid that wiped out my entire flock-except for him. He was the only one who survived. That summer we bonded, and i taught him to come to me and to hop onto a stump to be picked up. That fall i bought him an EE hen, and it was love at first sight. Luckily for me she too bonded deeply with me, and that winter i would go out to the coop sometimes when i was stressed out and they would come to sit on my lap to be hugged.


That little hen stood by him through thick and thin, even after he had been beaten by another rooster, she stood by him and helped him clean and kept him company. I bought other hens the next year, and he turned up his beak! Eventually he accepted the other hens but it was clear that he preferred the company of his little hen. He was a good roo to his flock, always fed them first and watched over them. He also was the nest-maker, they wouldn't lay in a nest until he had "fixed" it right and approved it! He would sing and sing of it and they'd all stand around to see "his" straw nest he had built When the hens started laying for the first time he'd sit beside them and croon encouragement!

Sadly that little hen was never strong, and she got a bad bumblefoot infection that weakened her further, though i treated it. We had record breaking temperatures that were far above average this summer, and sadly her and i both got heat sick. I put her in a bucket of cool water, and nursed her through the night but she was still weak the next morning. We spent a beautiful morning together, her and i and our roo. I tried to separate them so he didn't make advances in her weak state, but she'd not have it. She would only eat with him beside her, and laid her last egg with him beside her and me not far away so she could see. She was so careful with the nest that day, even in her weak state she got out several times to fetch feathers to line it, she never had before! After it was laid she kind of touched it, and "held" it under her belly the way hens do sometimes. The flock free ranged, and it was one of those beautiful days when no one fought or argued, and we took our last nap together in the shady woods on my lawn chair.

That evening when i went to put them away i tried to separate them, again, but she'd not have it. Unfortunately the rooster tried to make an advance and she had a heart attack on the spot. I cried like a baby and held her until the end. That afternoon i made a difficult decision to have DH put down the rooster as well. They loved each other so much, i couldn't bear to see his grief. I buried them neck to neck together.

I miss them terribly, i know i made the right decision for him, but it doesn't make it any easier. This is their baby, that came out of that last egg laid with such love:



She is growing to look much like her sister who hatched earlier in the spring



This was my beautiful hen and roo




My rooster building a nest, and him singing encouragement to my bantam cochin while she layed her first egg
He was very tender towards this little hen as well...........

 

[UnderHisWings]

I love your story about Ginger. Here is our Big Roger, fluff pants and all. That's why we get them for these beautiful and hysterical stories to be remembered for a life time. RIP Ginger, ~Big Rog and his flock.

Wow! Your rooster looks incredibly like my cockerel( minus fluff-cheeks)! Here's a pic of Captain Flint(not as high-defintion as yours, but...)

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The little waddles aren't quite as impressive as Big Roger's though. What breed is he?

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Roger is a 6 month old New Hampshire. Loving life with 9 mixed flock ladies and a little cronie friend Blue Cochin Bantam Cockerel, Duke. They keep us in stitches. I love your EE...no doubt he's got New Hampshire in the mix there too, I would say. Love my EE's.

 

[Chicken Tamer]

My rooster was also a hatchery boy, a little EE that i picked out of the bin at our supply store. He stood so proud and cocked his little eye at me, i just knew he was "my" roo! I bought him and a half dozen RIR hen-chicks. At 3 mo, i had a great coon raid that wiped out my entire flock-except for him. He was the only one who survived. That summer we bonded, and i taught him to come to me and to hop onto a stump to be picked up. That fall i bought him an EE hen, and it was love at first sight. Luckily for me she too bonded deeply with me, and that winter i would go out to the coop sometimes when i was stressed out and they would come to sit on my lap to be hugged.


That little hen stood by him through thick and thin, even after he had been beaten by another rooster, she stood by him and helped him clean and kept him company. I bought other hens the next year, and he turned up his beak! Eventually he accepted the other hens but it was clear that he preferred the company of his little hen. He was a good roo to his flock, always fed them first and watched over them. He also was the nest-maker, they wouldn't lay in a nest until he had "fixed" it right and approved it! He would sing and sing of it and they'd all stand around to see "his" straw nest he had built When the hens started laying for the first time he'd sit beside them and croon encouragement!

Sadly that little hen was never strong, and she got a bad bumblefoot infection that weakened her further, though i treated it. We had record breaking temperatures that were far above average this summer, and sadly her and i both got heat sick. I put her in a bucket of cool water, and nursed her through the night but she was still weak the next morning. We spent a beautiful morning together, her and i and our roo. I tried to separate them so he didn't make advances in her weak state, but she'd not have it. She would only eat with him beside her, and laid her last egg with him beside her and me not far away so she could see. She was so careful with the nest that day, even in her weak state she got out several times to fetch feathers to line it, she never had before! After it was laid she kind of touched it, and "held" it under her belly the way hens do sometimes. The flock free ranged, and it was one of those beautiful days when no one fought or argued, and we took our last nap together in the shady woods on my lawn chair.

That evening when i went to put them away i tried to separate them, again, but she'd not have it. Unfortunately the rooster tried to make an advance and she had a heart attack on the spot. I cried like a baby and held her until the end. That afternoon i made a difficult decision to have DH put down the rooster as well. They loved each other so much, i couldn't bear to see his grief. I buried them neck to neck together.

I miss them terribly, i know i made the right decision for him, but it doesn't make it any easier. This is their baby, that came out of that last egg laid with such love:



She is growing to look much like her sister who hatched earlier in the spring



This was my beautiful hen and roo




My rooster building a nest, and him singing encouragement to my bantam cochin while she layed her first egg
He was very tender towards this little hen as well...........

I am so srry!!!

 

[fuzzybutt love]

It is a sad story, but don't be sorry!
As one said earlier these roos get to live happy, so many are not able to. The rooster was a hatchery bird, the hen was an auction rescue. She wasn't well when i bought her, i had nursed her better and given her a much better life! Unfortunately mother nature has a way of weeding out the weak ones. The rooster was a save because there was another family who wanted only hens, but were going to buy him to satisfy the minimum number of chicks.

They were "mine for a little while" as the song goes. I miss them daily, but am glad i got the chance to have such special birds.

I still have the daughters, who knows what new stories will unfold!

 

[ChickadeeRanch]

Have ur other birds started dieing??

No they are 3 and still healthy!!