California - Northern

[Happy Chooks]

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I've had one bad rooster and many, many good roosters. A good rooster is a treasure to have around.

 

[PetRock]

Beautiful egg pics! Right now, only my pullets are laying so I'm getting a few Wellie eggs, a few light brown eggs, and lots of blue & blue green Cream Legbar & Cream Legbar mix eggs. I've never had so many blue eggs on my egg skelter!

Talking about roosters, we processed our 1 1/2 yr old Bresse roo just before Thanksgiving. He had launched multiple attacks on multiple people. My friend's 11 year old son collects the eggs for us and he was getting scared to go in the pen so it was time for Chauvelin to go. We have 2 of his sons that we are raising who will replace him. I hope that they didn't inherit any nasty genes from their father. He weighed 4.1 lb processed so he wasn't a very big roo. I had planned on cooking the soup out of him for stock. But we accidentally ended up taking him along with one of his sons to San Diego on vacation. I cooked them both in a plastic cooking bag for several hours. The difference was startling. The cockerel was moist and delicious while the roo was almost inedible. HIs white meat was okay but the skin & dark meat was like rubber. We could hardly cut through it. He was nasty in life and nasty in death. That's what I get for naming him after the bad guy in the Scarlet Pimpernel! I learned a valuable lesson with that breed. My Langshan roos are still tender and delicious at a year when roasted but not the Bresse. Have to process them young or use them for stock.

 

[CackleJoy]

Ditto.

Nice eggs, congrats!

If he isn't responding to an antibiotic, then I wouldn't try another one. That tells me that whatever he has isn't bacterial. Any other symptoms?

I've heard of roosters mating with stuffed animals and peoples feet.

Mostly with people, it's a flogging. It happens lightening fast and can hurt too. I had one rooster that broke a blood vessel in my leg and gave me a grapefruit size bruise. I've had a puncture wound by the spur through jeans, by the same rooster. This rooster was fine with my kids, fine with the DH and fine with strangers. But for some reason, he decided I was a threat. He was gone the day I bent down to fill a waterer and he went for my head.

HappyChooks,
Our boy has zero other symptoms. The lack of crow and coughing is all that showed up. The one time I thought he had a runny nose, he had just been drinking. For a while he looked unhappy but that was it. The unhappy look could easily have been from the new charge rooster (a Wheaten I've had since Oct that I just added to the flock - he's terribly aggressive and may go AWAY). Because he's coughing, he's separated from the flock in a 6x6 dog kennel on our lawn. When we toss him treats, he runs with agility. This morning he was talking sweetly to me and clucking so maybe he is finally responding. Last night he sounded really bad though and I kind of panicked. Guess I'll wait the day out and see if he starts coughing again.

 

[chiqita]

Aarg!my post did not show up.

On the bad rooster.
If he has never been aggressive before he might be reacting to something with you/on you.
New color, cell phone, water bucket ,ultra violet lipstick? They can take umbrage to anything.

Try changing and see if he does it again. If so I'd start picking him up and holding him upside down when you go in for a while . Then he can stalk away with hurt dignity.

 

[PetRock]

I have been meaning to share with you all a pic of some unusual candlesticks that I saw in a gift shop in Old Town San Diego. I thought about buying them but they were $42 a piece and I'm pretty sure my family would not want them on the dinner table! But, aren't they cool?!!!

 

[ronott1]

I have been meaning to share with you all a pic of some unusual candlesticks that I saw in a gift shop in Old Town San Diego. I thought about buying them but they were $42 a piece and I'm pretty sure my family would not want them on the dinner table! But, aren't they cool?!!!

My family would kill me if I bough those.

 

[chiqita]

I have been meaning to share with you all a pic of some unusual candlesticks that I saw in a gift shop in Old Town San Diego. I thought about buying them but they were $42 a piece and I'm pretty sure my family would not want them on the dinner table! But, aren't they cool?!!!

They would fit right in to mario S sense of the absurd.

 

[CackleJoy]

I would have to look up the dosage but a warning--too many medicines to quickly will over whelm them.

Most recommendations say to finish one course or wait a day or two between different medicines. Have you tried Oxine in a mister?(do not use the activator)

No Ron, I don't know this Oxine treatment. Thank you for the word of caution. He IS acting better this morning. I shall give it more time. It's hard not to panic when he's the family favorite! He's worthless as a flock protector but the closest thing we have to a pet chicken. Everyone just loves this bird!

 

[ronott1]

No Ron, I don't know this Oxine treatment. Thank you for the word of caution. He IS acting better this morning. I shall give it more time. It's hard not to panic when he's the family favorite! He's worthless as a flock protector but the closest thing we have to a pet chicken. Everyone just loves this bird!

I am still waiting for the lab results but the Australorp that died a couple of weeks ago had a fungal plug in her throat. Oxine in a cool mist mister will help with fungus.

 

[PetRock]

They would fit right in to mario S sense of the absurd.

I think that this is the store that I saw them in. It doesn't look like they have an online store but I bet they would take a phone order.

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