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Quote: Hi Gritsar, I'll give him time. I had never heard a chicken "cry" before, it broke my heart!!! Poor thing... My Thor made me mad one time, and one time only. I shut him up in the coop and let his girls free range. He cried all day.

Quote: He's young yet, give him time. And yes, when they are unhappy brahma roos can make the most pitiful sounding cries.

And he was probably looking at you like...what's this crazy woman doing out in the rain??? Rain doesn't hurt them, neither does sleet or snow.

kitmarlowescot2, thanks for the input. Ozzy the polish cockerel avoids me like the plague, which I consider a good thing. He still sees well despite his crest. The little polish pullet is my sweetheart. She gets regular trims, but somehow I think she's just ditzy and her vision is not the...

Quote: I warned him...did I not warn him about a hundred times? He was a good flock protector and a good daddy to chicks, but he never got the hang of mating hens without tearing their backs up and he was downright terrible to my other flock (the brahmas). Plus he had this annoying habit...

Quote: Awww now you've gone and hurt her feelings.

Quote: TJ was dispatched. Rowdy and Cash went to a new home. There was just too much chaos going on with all those teenage hormones. I will be keeping one of the bantam cochin cockerels out of the soon to hatch eggs. I don't think I can depend on the polish roo "Ozzy" to protect the...

If Pg is showing off their trahmas then I get to show off Sally again. She's daughter of one of my buff brahma hens and my late turken rooster. She's going to be huge full grown. She laid two small eggs and then big round ones and is a good layer. I do need to get some new pics of her...

Quote: You might check him closely for signs of mites. I don't suppose a dusting would hurt him any. Ask what his medical care if any has been so far. I've only ever given one chicken a complete bath. That was my light brahma rooster Zeus. He decided to wallow in blue coop paint. Congrats.

Quote: I have only had SF hens. In fact, I started out with three and our triple digit temps. this summer killed two of them. They are definitely not suited for the summers we have here in SW Arkansas. The remaining SF struggles but she's doing okay. I think the SF roos are pretty, but...

Quote: Personal preference I guess, but I'd go with a younger roo. Let the hens raise him and teach him how to be a gentleman. Mark my words, he'll get his butt handed to him a couple times if he doesn't behave, but unless there's blood drawn I'd leave it to the hens to keep him on the...

Quote: Personal preference I guess, but I'd go with a younger roo. Let the hens raise him and teach him how to be a gentleman. Mark my words, he'll get his butt handed to him a couple times if he doesn't behave, but unless there's blood drawn I'd leave it to the hens to keep him on the...

Quote: OT - thank you. I'm sorry for your loss. Our older GSD Jax happened to us quite unexpectedly the same week we lost our Charlie Girl (a irish wolfhound/?). We weren't really ready for another dog, but Jax needed a good home and we have no regrets. Jax's younger brother Kane, my...

Quote: Two questions just out of curiosity, if you don't mind. #1 Did you or your family members baby those roosters when they were young, try to make pets out of them? #2 Were they hatchery quality, breeder quality or show quality? No offense taken and I do hope that I didn't offend. I...

Quote: I can only tell you my experience. Even after I got a second flock of chickens, the different breeds listed in my siggy, Thor never tried to mate or really interact with those hens. He was content with his brahma girls. So I can't tell you if he was too big for the other girls or not...

Quote: Two questions just out of curiosity, if you don't mind. #1 Did you or your family members baby those roosters when they were young, try to make pets out of them? #2 Were they hatchery quality, breeder quality or show quality?

Quote: I have only had SF hens. In fact, I started out with three and our triple digit temps. this summer killed two of them. They are definitely not suited for the summers we have here in SW Arkansas. The remaining SF struggles but she's doing okay. I think the SF roos are pretty, but...

This thread just caught my eye. My signature says it all. LOVE LOVE LOVE my brahmas and sorely miss my big brahma roo Thor. My DH, claims to hate chickens, has mentioned more than once that he would have preferred I stuck with the brahmas and not dabbled in the other breeds I have now...