BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[Kev]

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!

He should have re-homed with Axe over on Butcher Block....

 

[hellbender]

Please keep in mind....many if not most of my posts are put up 'for entertainment purposes only'. I do get a kick out of stirring the pot just a bit!

 

[dfr1973]

Please keep in mind....many if not most of my posts are put up 'for entertainment purposes only'. I do get a kick out of stirring the pot just a bit!

It's Friday evening and the OP just gave us the green light!

I'll have a bit of fun pointing out that Roo was Kanga's joey in Winnie the Pooh. Makes for an interesting mental image when you go back and read Heron's post!

"The wonderful thing about Tiggers, is I'm the only one!"

Too bad this board doesn't have the clinking beer mugs smilie.

 

[hellbender]

It's Friday evening and the OP just gave us the green light!

I'll have a bit of fun pointing out that Roo was Kanga's joey in Winnie the Pooh. Makes for an interesting mental image when you go back and read Heron's post!

"The wonderful thing about Tiggers, is I'm the only one!"

Too bad this board doesn't have the clinking beer mugs smilie.

 

[Beer can]

From Wikipedia;
Roo is a fictional character created in 1926 by A. A. Milne and first featured in the book Winnie–the–Pooh. He is a young kangaroo (known as a joey) and his mother is Kanga. Like most other Pooh characters, Roo is based on a stuffed toy animal that belonged to Milne's son, Christopher Robin Milne, though stuffed Roo was lost a long time ago.

Thanks a lot guys for embarrassing the crap out of me, I promise to never use that term again. I was using it just as a short, not to have to type so much. Kinda like texting speak, which I don't talk, always tell my oldest I don't know what the heck your saying why can't you just call me, reminds me of the mother that asked her daughter after a text what this meant

No more 'roo' from me!

 

[dfr1973]

From Wikipedia;
Roo is a fictional character created in 1926 by A. A. Milne and first featured in the book Winnie–the–Pooh. He is a young kangaroo (known as a joey) and his mother is Kanga. Like most other Pooh characters, Roo is based on a stuffed toy animal that belonged to Milne's son, Christopher Robin Milne, though stuffed Roo was lost a long time ago.

Thanks a lot guys for embarrassing the crap out of me, I promise to never use that term again. I was using it just as a short, not to have to type so much
No more 'roo' from me!

Oh bother! You didn't know?!?

Ummm ... how can you not know Roo is a character in Winnie the Pooh? Are there really people who grew up without the Winnie the Pooh cartoons and stories?

 

[Fred's Hens]

If you want shorthand, just use C, K, H, P. Cannot beat that for short.

 

[gjensen]

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 not incorrect, and it is not regional.

It is also not precise.

 

[gjensen]

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.

Thank you Fred.

 

[gjensen]

He should have re-homed with Axe over on Butcher Block....

Some of us allow our sensitivities to overrun our sense of responsibility.