California - Northern

[Nikon]

I like this picture and am impressed that the chickens did not eat the peppers....

 

[Nikon]

Today, the English Orpington Rooster attacked me TWICE!

All I did was check for eggs. Nothing unusual. The first time was when I was walking he ran up behind me and attacked the bag of my legs. Turned around and kicked him off, but lost both my slippers and got chicken crapola on my socks. Caught him and held him to the ground for awhile.

Second time I was again checking for eggs and he did it again. At first the EE roo defended me and attacked the Orp rooster, but then they both decided to both come at me! This time I held him down for a lot longer. GRRRR.

 

[ronott1]

Today, the English Orpington Rooster attacked me TWICE!

All I did was check for eggs. Nothing unusual. The first time was when I was walking he ran up behind me and attacked the bag of my legs. Turned around and kicked him off, but lost both my slippers and got chicken crapola on my socks. Caught him and held him to the ground for awhile.

Second time I was again checking for eggs and he did it again. At first the EE roo defended me and attacked the Orp rooster, but then they both decided to both come at me! This time I held him down for a lot longer. GRRRR.

Bad Roosters!

Make good soup.

 

[Chickengirl1304]

Today, the English Orpington Rooster attacked me TWICE!   All I did was check for eggs. Nothing unusual. The first time was when I was walking he ran up behind me and attacked the bag of my legs. Turned around and kicked him off, but lost both my slippers and got chicken crapola on my socks. Caught him and held him to the ground for awhile. 

Second time I was again checking for eggs and he did it again. At first the EE roo defended me and attacked the Orp rooster, but then they both decided to both come at me! This time I held him down for a lot longer. GRRRR.

My orps haven't rushed any if us yet but my Wyandotte, and EE do

 

[chickee]

Today, the English Orpington Rooster attacked me TWICE!

All I did was check for eggs. Nothing unusual. The first time was when I was walking he ran up behind me and attacked the bag of my legs. Turned around and kicked him off, but lost both my slippers and got chicken crapola on my socks. Caught him and held him to the ground for awhile.

Second time I was again checking for eggs and he did it again. At first the EE roo defended me and attacked the Orp rooster, but then they both decided to both come at me! This time I held him down for a lot longer. GRRRR.

Unfortunately when you make pets out of the roosters they loose their fear of you and don't respect you as head of the flock. Many well known breeders have suggested not to tame your roosters. You need to find a way to scare him into submitting to you. Bring a broom into the pen and go straight at him with it until he runs away from you. Each time you come into the pen, first thing you do is walk towards him and make him move away from you to let him know YOU own the hens. This has worked for me with most of my roosters. The ones it didn't work on have been sent to the auction.

Sorry you are having rooster trouble. Hope this works for you.

 

[lizanne]

I think one of my chickens from Jason laid me an egg.

I think it was a Penedesenca. I'm still waiting on the others to start. And I got 4 eggs today (out of like 30 chickens). When they all finally start laying again I will have way more eggs than I can handle.

 

[ronott1]

I think one of my chickens from Jason laid me an egg.

I think it was a Penedesenca. I'm still waiting on the others to start. And I got 4 eggs today (out of like 30 chickens). When they all finally start laying again I will have way more eggs than I can handle.

Yes, that looks like a Crele Penedesenca egg.

I need to see If I can get a picture of the Partridge Penedesenca egg from yesterday.....

 

[ronott1]

.....Ok here it is- The very dark egg in the middle:

 

[chickee]

I think one of my chickens from Jason laid me an egg.

I think it was a Penedesenca. I'm still waiting on the others to start. And I got 4 eggs today (out of like 30 chickens). When they all finally start laying again I will have way more eggs than I can handle.

Those are beautiful eggs! What breed lays the one that looks sort of grey? That is a really neat color!

 

[lizanne]

.....Ok here it is- The very dark egg in the middle:

HOLY COW!!!

That thing is so cool!!! You can really tell how dark they are when you see them with a "brown" egg.