**Fancy Rooster Contest!! Ends 2/28/16**

[CochinLover1]

Stunning pictures!!

 

[Qaib master]

I don't like my chickens fighting each other and don't have the money or space to keep them  in separate pens, so mine all have to live with each other and play nice but if I had the money and room I would love to have a couple, they are not only cool looking but I bet they also have some interesting personalities.

Yeah I'm pretty lucky that my landlord is pretty cool and let's me do mostly everything I want as long as I pay rent lol! I didn't spend a whole lot of money on my coop because I built it from used pallets from work. I think every animal has its own particular personality but you just have to spend a lot of time with them to catch their little quirks that make them special. This bird in particular was the dominant one out of the 3 brothers from his brood.

 

[Qaib master]

When I saw them I thought they looked an awful lot like Malays, sounds like they act very similar as well. Our last clutch was very small, only four chicks and 2 were roosters, maybe it's because we didn't have an adult rooster at the time but the boys didn't start fighting until 4 or 5 months. The half malay rooster was definitely coming out on top until he went to another farm. You have some beautiful birds there!

Thanks! Thais and Malays come from the same region so It's no surprise that they act similar to each other. I've never owned Malays before but I imagine it wouldn't be much different from Thais

 

[GitaBooks]

I hear that gamebirds can be aggressive towards one another but great single pets for people because they were bred to get along with their owners. I think this is cool and wouldn't mind getting one of those huge, 3 ft tall roos some day as a pet.

If I kept it indoors, then if anyone wanted to break into the house they'd be met by that. I'd run for my life if I saw a huge rooster glaring at me.

However, today I found out (or was reminded) of why chickens do not do so well indoors. THEY STINK! Yep, they went back out this morning.

 

[sdm111]

If they're worth anything they should be very aggressive to one another. It's what they were bred for. And the proper terminology is gamefowl, gamebirds are hunted for sport such as quail, pheasant, chucker etc.

 

[Ballerina Bird]

I'd run for my life if I saw a huge rooster glaring at me.

A friend of mine who keeps chickens once said to me, "I wouldn't want to meet a chicken as big as I am," which I always thought was funny.

 

[Rinnley]

A friend of mine who keeps chickens once said to me, "I wouldn't want to meet a chicken as big as I am," which I always thought was funny.

Has he met an emu? My friends daughter was terrified of chickens after an incident at the petting zoo when she was two. She was doling out the layer pellets one per hen to be fair to everyone when one clever hen jumped up and kicked her hand. Pellets went flying, she fell over against a fence and was swarmed when the food fell down all around her, Poor dear. I'm laughing as I write this but they're like eye level with her. If that happened to me with emus today? God I'd never recover. Fortunately she decided she liked chickens again after she saw how our birds keep their distance. I gave her some spaghetti noodles to throw for them, do that if you ever need a good laugh! Now when she eats an egg she wants to know the name of the chicken it came from.

 

[CochinLover1]

Has he met an emu? My friends daughter was terrified of chickens after an indecent at the petting zoo when she was two. She was doling out the layer pellets one per hen to be fair to everyone when one clever hen jumped up and kicked her hand. Pellets went flying, she fell over against a fence and was swarmed when the food fell down all around her, Poor dear. I'm laughing as I write this but they're like eye level with her. If that happened to me with emus today? God I'd never recover. Fortunately she decided she liked chickens again after she saw how our birds keep their distance. I gave her some spaghetti noodles to throw for them, do that if you ever need a good laugh! Now when she eats an egg she wants to know the name of the chicken it came from.

Cute! I did chuckle when I read this.

 

[allosaurusrock]

This is David Bowie, my new rooster!

 

[CochinLover1]

This is David Bowie, my new rooster!

That is one handsome boy! I have to know, how'd he earn his name ?