My Rooster, a half OEGB half unknown breed that i named King disappeared two days ago. I don't know how he disappeared since it was daytime and cats don't come out around our neighborhood to hunt our chickens during the day and their aren't a lot of hawks around here, mostly because some large birds who are nesting here fend any predatory birds off. My first thought was a dog got him since i was taking a small nap after staying up the day before longer then i should have and heard loud barking not too far away from my house. Of course i checked on my chickens in case a dog got in, everyone was here. The mother hen with the 6 chicks and the red hen dust bathing alone. That striked me as odd since the rooster is always with her and when i tried to search the backyard for him i couldn't find him. I searched around my house and in my neighbors backyard since he liked to escape sometimes and peck at the worms that escape from our backyard to newer grasses and he was nowhere to be seen.
That's when i got really fustrated and scared that something got him after he protected my hens from multiple attacks before and defended the chicks when a garden snake got too curious near them. I ran to my mother to ask if she heard or saw the rooster lately and then she told me that she heard flapping and a lot of noise. I then asked her why didn't she check on them, what if the chicks were under attack! She replied, and i quote "You know i don't check on those animals they are your problem." I got really mad and sad, my family thinks i am crazy for thinking chickens could be pets and loving them like dogs. They just believe that they should only be grown for food and eggs. I yelled and screamed at my mother for a while then headed around the neighborhood, couldn't find him anywhere. Then i was defiantly sure a dog got him or maybe a neighborhood kid who wanted to have fun with my poor rooster.
I felt really bad and guilty for leaving them out to forage even though the day before they got out to the front of our house. Tears swelled up and my small pure old english game hen is now alone until my three chick roosters grow up and reach puberty.
Then when my father got home he saw me tearing up and asked whats wrong and i told him what happened. Then he said that he saw the rooster this morning outside our backyard and i asked why didn't he tell me. He responded that he was already heading out with his friend and didn't have time to tell me that my rooster was out. I couldn't even describe the anger i felt at my own parents, i lost my first young gorgeous rooster because of them. I then started to go outside and put the chicks and mother hen and my lonely red hen into the coop. And that was that, my parents told me he probably wasn't dead and that he would show up soon but it has been two days and i haven't seen him. I can't believe he died, maybe he is still alive somewhere but probably not. So now my small red hen will have to live alone for a month now, until the chicks grow out of there mom. Now i can't let my chickens forage since my rooster was the one that looked out for danger and protected everyone.
These pictures were of course before the incident happened.
White hen is the mother hen, before she got broody and hatched the chicks, name is Queen.
Red hen are the chicks real mother, name is Sandy.
That's when i got really fustrated and scared that something got him after he protected my hens from multiple attacks before and defended the chicks when a garden snake got too curious near them. I ran to my mother to ask if she heard or saw the rooster lately and then she told me that she heard flapping and a lot of noise. I then asked her why didn't she check on them, what if the chicks were under attack! She replied, and i quote "You know i don't check on those animals they are your problem." I got really mad and sad, my family thinks i am crazy for thinking chickens could be pets and loving them like dogs. They just believe that they should only be grown for food and eggs. I yelled and screamed at my mother for a while then headed around the neighborhood, couldn't find him anywhere. Then i was defiantly sure a dog got him or maybe a neighborhood kid who wanted to have fun with my poor rooster.
I felt really bad and guilty for leaving them out to forage even though the day before they got out to the front of our house. Tears swelled up and my small pure old english game hen is now alone until my three chick roosters grow up and reach puberty.
Then when my father got home he saw me tearing up and asked whats wrong and i told him what happened. Then he said that he saw the rooster this morning outside our backyard and i asked why didn't he tell me. He responded that he was already heading out with his friend and didn't have time to tell me that my rooster was out. I couldn't even describe the anger i felt at my own parents, i lost my first young gorgeous rooster because of them. I then started to go outside and put the chicks and mother hen and my lonely red hen into the coop. And that was that, my parents told me he probably wasn't dead and that he would show up soon but it has been two days and i haven't seen him. I can't believe he died, maybe he is still alive somewhere but probably not. So now my small red hen will have to live alone for a month now, until the chicks grow out of there mom. Now i can't let my chickens forage since my rooster was the one that looked out for danger and protected everyone.
Here he is, King, protective, sometimes aggressive, loved his hens, father of 6 pretty chicks.
These pictures were of course before the incident happened.
White hen is the mother hen, before she got broody and hatched the chicks, name is Queen.
Red hen are the chicks real mother, name is Sandy.
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