So for anyone still following, i keep hearing a young rooster trying to crow in my neighbors yard, he told my husband he got a new rooster so he can keep up with us lol, i cant help but wonder if its my little capone so im sending my husband later to see if its him...I wouldnt take him back but...
I think the worst part is not knowing, I can only hope that he simply wandered off back to wherever he came from. i haven't found anything to make me believe he was taken by something....no signs of a struggle, no feathers, no remains anywhere.
I'm hoping he just went for a walk, we live on 2 acres... I told my 5yr old that maybe he went to find his mommy and daddy, she is devastated.... Who would have guessed that we would have grown so attached to a little chicken... Fingers crossed that he turns up soon
Well I'm so upset I just went to lock Capone in for the night and he is gone, . I'm hoping he just went for a vacation but I seen a rogue raccoon in my carport today.... Hoping he didn't get taken by something.... He was just in there like two hrs ago when I checked on him... So sad!
So Capone spent his first night outside last night...all by himself in his own coop and run. I salvaged an old shopping cart and turned it into a bachelor pad for him....this is only temporary, we are planning on buying a house next year so when we move my sister will be taking cooper (my slw...
Lol my husband is well aware of how chicken math works....he learned that lesson when I had my hens and told him I needed a rooster now.... Lol so he'll just come home one day and notice that there are more than when he left
Thanks for the kind words everyone I am also thinking white leghorn cross, as for integrating him into the flock... I don't know if it will ever work, I have a feeling he will be a permanent house chicken who goes to an outside pen during the day...he seems to think he already belongs to a which...
You can see his broken beak in this last pic... poor baby
He's starting to get some brown feathers... any thoughts on breed?
Isn't he turning into such a handsome boy???
I'm so sorry everyone for taking soooo long to post an update, my daughter just started kindergarten last week so we had a CRAZY week I'll post pics later tonight. We've decided, or I should say my husband decided he should be named Capone, one of the conditions of him building me a new...
I think it will grow back, if you look at pics from day one and pics from yesterday the scanned part of his beak started off way up by his nostrils and yesterday was all the way down on the tip, so it must have grown back a little for it to have moved the scab, right?
Funny story.... My 1 year old was walking around outside eating what was left of her grilled cheese sandwich, and the little booger ran over, jumped up snatched the sandwich out of her hand and took off running across the yard...lmao sad part though, he was pecking at the ground today and the...
What if I let him free range and split up my hens so two would be with him and two with the other roo? would that work or would that just cause more problems... I live on about 2 acres...
yes cappi it is, 5 year old approved. I don't know if I could convince my husband to let me have anymore chickens, but maybe if he turns out to be something rare or something like that I may be able to talk him into that. I don't know what to do about a coop, the coop I have now is 4 foot by 8...