Got Flogged by A rooster tonight

[centrarchid]

To put this thread back on track. My games and jungle fowl are foo-foo chickens. They are smarter, faster, better fliers, better foragers and prettier than the steroidol cretens that tickle your fancy or tummy. My roosters are handled routinely and can be trusted in close proximity to your face, even when a lady chicken is present. If your bird or handling technique can not produce a safe reliable relationship with your cretens, then get rid of one or both.


FOO on you because my kung-FOO is more powerful than yours.

EDIT: "skills" changed to "technique"

 

[Beekissed]

I have a safe and reliable relationship with all my chickens....especially since providing the foofoo chicken toilet paper in the coop. They LOVE me!

 

[oshun55555]

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What you talking about??? I have a great relationship with my chickens on my terms, just like you on your terms. And who are you???? to tell me or anyone which of our chickens to get rid of? Like the song says "I did it my way", and you do it your way. Like i said before to each his own.

 

[Beekissed]

But can you rub your roosters all over your body and face?

I think that's the criteria here....must be able to use rooster as a loofa in order to have chickens that are considered reliable and safe.

 

[flocksalot]

I think I just peed my pant's. This is one funny thread.

On the cocky roo subject we had a Lakenvelder that started that crap. He wasn't afraid of my cane, and he had a real mad on for my boots. He became afraid of the horse whip though! I'm pretty good at knocking leaves off the trees with it for the horses while they are in the pen in the evening. Smokey came flying at me one evening. I whipped around and tagged him right in the butt. It was amazing! He never messed with me again. My 7 year old chased him away from the girls and then carried his favorite around. ticked Smokey off, but BIG MOMMA had her whip so Little Smokey was a good boy. My husband that's another story.

All our other roos have a great respect for the hand that feeds them. If they didn't I would have no problem putting them in the soup coop with the overzealous roos that are terrorizing the girls. That's my biggest problem. Got three in there right now. One was just terrible chasing the girls all over the farm. I was zipping around on the 4 wheeler when a hen jumped out in front of me. I swerved. Missed the hen, but nailed the roo. His leg never did heal right and he was sitting in front of the pop door attacking the girls as they came home for the night. The next one jumped the fence when he was just 6 weeks and started pouncing on the girls. It looked real funny with him riding on the backs of hens like a bronco buster, but now he gets to eat, wait, and watch all those pretty young girls running around just out of reach. The last was a ten week old that would go out and sit in front of the pop door waiting for each girl to come out. They were terrified and wouldn't come out. He joined the not so gentlemens club. It's too bad too as they are all beautiful roos, but I don't tolerate mean boys of any sort. We have 5 other roos for 140+ hens, but there could be more in the broody houses, so we could be eating much more soup.

 

[eggdd]

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ok, seriously. this one made me laugh.

rooster as a loofa.

i'm still chuckling.

good stuff.

 

[Beekissed]

Now, take a moment and answer me true....how many of you old codgers get your roosters up near your eyes to check for safety and reliability? How many can even lift their big boys that high?

Been raisin' chickens since the age of 10 and have yet to put a roo near my eyeballs....can't even imagine the reasoning behind anyone who would even need to place a roo in the vicinity of their eyeballs. New way of cleaning the glasses or contacts?

I guess if my gals can wipe their butts with foofoo chickens, one could conceivably clean one's glasses with the softness as well....but wouldn't you remove the glasses from your face before commencing with this effort?

Feel free to join in the general hilarity, folks!

 

[flocksalot]

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I think I'm gonna run out to the coop, grab me a roo, and go take a nice long hot bath. I'm feeling the need to scrub off some old dry skin. I'm thinking Rudy tonght, Larry tomorrow, Gabriel is pretty big I should save him for the weekend, Curly Joe is doing a bit of molting right now so he sould be real good for a brisk scrub wouldn't you think. Cocoa is only a little boy yet, so I think I'll save him for much later. How about old crabby hens?

 

[flocksalot]

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In all my years (probably not as old as some of you, but I have two boys. One is 29 and one is 7. I've been around a few blocks) I've had to put a few roo close to my eyes. My eye sight ain't what it used to be and I have a hard time getting all the pin feathers otherwise.

 

[centrarchid]

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I work my birds intensively to facilitate measures and detailed observations. Many are trained to fly up into hand and are placed on shoulder while I reset equipment (weighing scales, camera, callipers). Restraining terrified or aggressive birds is not practical if any number involved. Having trustworthy birds has not presented any negative impacts so far. I am unable to justify need for potentially manfighting roosters for any application involving use as food, for show or simply pets.