➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[BantyChooks]

That’s good!! Your stare is pretty scary from what I hear

Oh, it is. Those 20/20 eyeballs are good for more than just reading old patents.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Oh, it is. Those 20/20 eyeballs are good for more than just reading old patents.

Let’s hope you never have to use them on anything other than roosters and patents.

 

[BantyChooks]

Let’s hope you never have to use them on anything other than roosters and patents.

Oh, I do, all the time. I can silence most screaming toddlers with a single glare. (They don't stay silent for long, but I'll take all the silence I can get.)

 

[mixedUPturk]

Only if you are thin skinned.

Or they are vicious (with great big fangs), like the fabled sabre beaked chicken of lore. Highly carnivorous. Apex predator type thing. Tiny arms. You have to hold still to get eaten.

Truth of the matter, the rooster was probably trying to grab the worm on her. Rather unfortunate turn of events there.

The teenagers were thrust into the coop for the first time last night. Good news! Everyone survived. I was out there at last light putting several on the roosts and first light opening the door before the old ladies knew the young ones were in their boudoir. This will prove interesting. Yes, I gave up on the mobile coop in light of recent events.

"Sabre chicken"

Only the thin skinned (or immune suppressed and she had at least 3 medical problems) yes understood. Unfortunate indeed but like i have a tendency to pass out from time to time. One of my nightmares is for this to happen in a coop. It has happened in the yard two or three times. I get warning but im hard headed. Maybe i shouldnt be so careless.

Let me tell you, it takes balls of steel to stare down an aggressive, x-large Australorp rooster when you've forgotten to wear shoes outside...

Maybe my wyandottes are more docile than the australorp but even the hona only takes a time or two before they learn thats a part of me

 

[BantyChooks]

"Sabre chicken"

Only the thin skinned (or immune suppressed and she had at least 3 medical problems) yes understood. Unfortunate indeed but like i have a tendency to pass out from time to time. One of my nightmares is for this to happen in a coop. It has happened in the yard two or three times. I get warning but im hard headed. Maybe i shouldnt be so careless.




Maybe my wyandottes are more docile than the australorp but even the hona only takes a time or two before they learn thats a part of me

That Australorp was just plain psycho from day one. I was able to work him down to only occasional bouts of aggression, but I couldn't make him safe. He wasn't like any other rooster I've ever seen. Gave me the creeps to watch him. He just acted wrong.

 

[mixedUPturk]

That Australorp was just plain psycho from day one. I was able to work him down to only occasional bouts of aggression, but I couldn't make him safe. He wasn't like any other rooster I've ever seen. Gave me the creeps to watch him. He just acted wrong.

He sounds yummy

 

[BantyChooks]

He sounds yummy

He was.

 

[mixedUPturk]

He was.

A happy ending

 

[BantyChooks]

A happy ending

I kind of regret not keeping him, because he would've been perfect for the data collection I'm trying to run on aggressive roosters right now, but at the same time... I have enough mouths to feed, y'know.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Oh, I do, all the time. I can silence most screaming toddlers with a single glare. (They don't stay silent for long, but I'll take all the silence I can get.)

You have toddlers!? I thought you had older kids. Poor you! Lol

That Australorp was just plain psycho from day one. I was able to work him down to only occasional bouts of aggression, but I couldn't make him safe. He wasn't like any other rooster I've ever seen. Gave me the creeps to watch him. He just acted wrong.

Maybe he was possessed or something.