BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[hellbender]

A young female/male horse is called?
A young female/male pig is called?


Using proper terms for filly, colt, mare, stallion, gelding is considered simply being up on horsemanship, not a snooty thing at all.
Same with gilt, barrow, sow, boar, etc in hogs.

When poultry moved from the farm and farm familiar surroundings to being re-embraced as a hobby by the long disconnected urban and suburbanites, the language and terms became "pet-like" in nature. Shrug.

I have my personal preference on such things. To me, accuracy of terms is important. It surely is not to others.

No matter how you chop, slice or dice it, as far as I'm concerned, an adult male chicken will always be a cock and there is absolutely NOTHING politically or grammatically incorrect about it.

 

[Heron's Nest Farm]

I do not know what a roo is. It sounds like you are referring to cockerels. LOL.

I am no seasoned breeder.

I do not know what "pretty aggressive" is either. That could mean anything from vigorous to a man fighter. If the later, chop his head off. They are not worth messing with. Regardless of all of the amateur theories (I have heard a lot and smiled), and 'behavior modifications", the bird would have a few "screws loose", and the characteristic is highly heritable. Breeding one is producing more like him.

Really, I do not see where it matters (unless the one is a man fighter). It sounds like an experimental cross to make layers of olive colored eggs. The requirement is a bird from a good dark egg laying strain x a good blue egg laying strain. There is no standard for type or color except your own. You cannot visually tell which would produce better layers that laid bigger or more eggs. To know that would be to prove them by their offspring.

If you are considering trying to breed cuckoo Marans also (which is not clear), then good Marans type should be your goal. Cuckoo is not a difficult color, and could be worked on along the way.

You are the one having to deal with them, and it sounds like you will enjoy the second bird the most.

I am intrigued by continuing the Maran but producing a green egg....hmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[dfr1973]

No matter how you chop, slice or dice it, as far as I'm concerned, an adult male chicken will always be a cock and there is absolutely NOTHING politically or grammatically incorrect about it.

If my grandpa was still above ground, he'd argue with you just for the fun of it (yes, he loved his Missouri mules too!). He spent almost his entire life on the 200-acre Missouri farm where he was born. He took a couple years "off" during WW2 to tour the Pacific theatre and came home with a bride (also very German family name, natch) but he always said "rooster," so that is why I think it may be regional. FWIW, our county fair also uses rooster for a male chicken over one year of age.

 

[ronott1]

If my grandpa was still above ground, he'd argue with you just for the fun of it (yes, he loved his Missouri mules too!). He spent almost his entire life on the 200-acre Missouri farm where he was born. He took a couple years "off" during WW2 to tour the Pacific theatre and came home with a bride (also very German family name, natch) but he always said "rooster," so that is why I think it may be regional. FWIW, our county fair also uses rooster for a male chicken over one year of age.

It is not really regional as much as it is show world vs. farm world.

What I mean is that the designation of gender and age are more for categories in poultry shows.

My family in California called them hens and roosters. They were chicks until you knew the difference.

Of course we did not show chickens--we just ate them and their eggs.

 

[hellbender]

If my grandpa was still above ground, he'd argue with you just for the fun of it (yes, he loved his Missouri mules too!). He spent almost his entire life on the 200-acre Missouri farm where he was born. He took a couple years "off" during WW2 to tour the Pacific theatre and came home with a bride (also very German family name, natch) but he always said "rooster," so that is why I think it may be regional. FWIW, our county fair also uses rooster for a male chicken over one year of age.

Rooster is absolutely correct as well !!! I really don't let it bother me too much but it just grates on my sensibilities when I see 'roo' being used.

Nothing I can do about it but using correct terms when dealing with any livestock will endow a speaker with a certain gravitas that will not be there if child-like terms are used.

 

[draye]

Rooster is absolutely correct as well !!!  I really don't let it bother me too much but it just grates on my sensibilities when I see 'roo' being used.  

Nothing I can do about it but using correct terms when dealing with any livestock

will endow a speaker with a certain gravitas that will not be there if child-like terms are used.

I usually say/type rooster but occasionally I take the short cut and type roo. I usually don't type cock but sometimes do use it vocally.

 

[dfr1973]

Rooster is absolutely correct as well !!! I really don't let it bother me too much but it just grates on my sensibilities when I see 'roo' being used.

Nothing I can do about it but using correct terms when dealing with any livestock will endow a speaker with a certain gravitas that will not be there if child-like terms are used.

Awww, c'mon ... you had to at snort a little when you saw roo or (even funnier) roolet. The one that makes me roll my eyes is "freezer camp." I don't even "process" my birds until after I have properly slaughtered them first - they tend to make too much of a racket when I try to debone them live.

 

[ronott1]

Awww, c'mon ... you had to at snort a little when you saw roo or (even funnier) roolet. The one that makes me roll my eyes is "freezer camp." I don't even "process" my birds until after I have properly slaughtered them first - they tend to make too much of a racket when I try to debone them live.

TGIF!

Funny stuff--I enjoyed reading this post.

 

[Kev]

Mine is "re-homing"..... that just bugs so bad.. Cook the bad chooks instead!

 

[Beer can]

Mine is "re-homing".....   that just bugs so bad..  Cook the bad chooks instead!

Yeah saw one the other day for 're-homing', cross beak and crooked neck "a real nice boy and good with the hens, but being picked on"
What!!! Lol!