Hello
My name Is
Roy Hale
I am a plumber by trade
old school hillbilly by blood
I have a
wife of all most 27 years
a 24 year old daughter
and a 30 year old Son who is
no longer with us
I raise my chickens
garden
(raise too much squash )
work on vintage (old)garden tractors
I fish...
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=329297&p=3
see post #15 on this thread
Your rooster is the same thing, leghorns are bred for egg prodution at all cost. pawning your problem off on some one else (A.K.A.rehoming) isn't something I do either
Roy
got a barred rock waiting for saturday to meet the knife He has mistakenly decided he is alpha rooster.most bad behavior in roosters is genetic. I don't want those genes in my flock . So any aggressive rooster is eaten. solve the problem every times
Roy
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To me that is no different than releasing predator in some one elses area. If he is a problem it is mine to deal with I don't pass it off on some one else
Roy
Well...as long as you are honest about WHY you're giving the roo away, IMO it's alright to do so. I would offer a mean roo...
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To me that is no different than releasing predator in some one elses area. If he is a problem it is mine to deal with I don't pass it off on some one else
Roy
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Your roo is too "hardcore" to be ever cured. The problem here has two causes, if he is a RIR, chances are he came from production bred lines. They are bred for production.. not personality. Possibly for some production strains, the higher aggression in roosters is linked to higher...
One of my two one year old barred rock has decided he thinks he rules the roost. in the last couple days . there will be dumlings sat. for supper.
My standard operating procedure works every time. Rooster get aggressive I eat him, cures aggression every time plus takes him out of the gene pool
I rescued a 10 month old jack russel pup He is still learning the ropes here. I had him in the run while feeding today. we were in the duck run and the drake took off, he wasnt trying to hurt him ,just if some one running he wants to run with them. I swatted him and give him a stern NO! So he...
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crows are under Migratory bird laws so check your laws (if you get caught out of season you get a ticket from the state plus one from Uncle Sam
Roy
If you garden or have poultry crows are not your friend sure they run hawks off, but is so they can have chick/eggs for themselves. They are the main predator in a lot of places for game bird chicks. crows are under Migratory bird laws so read up on the law in you area befere you blast them
Roy
I put eggs in 3weeks ago sat. in the first week we had a several hour power outage. In the second week week my new turner failed and last week end we had another several hour power failure . I was sitting in the recliner last night thinking I need to do something with those eggs, And I...
we didn't get the rain called for last nght and today. It has been windy so I broke out the tiller and tilled some of the north end of the garden, that was dry enough I now have a row of Taters, peas and a half row of onions in the ground
It is officially spring on the homestead
put eggs in...