Got Flogged by A rooster tonight

[M.sue]

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Ditto here to the above..... they look impressive...Hope all your hard work pays off!!!

 

[al6517]

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I will sure do it for ya Bee, It's always a full weekend of running and running but lot's a fun too. I stay up there for 3 day's till the awards ceremony on Sunday. Yea bee they are very full bodied boogers, and just wait till they get grown and I show them next year as full cocks and Hen's, they develop very late and still have another 18mo to finish growing out.

I hope the whites go far as I suspect they should, I have been getting calls for birds all over the country and the price just goes up after the shows and the additional ribbons LOL can you say $$ Cha Ching $$

Iam sure now you can see why I am so passionate and proud about them, and I do spend way to much time effort and $$ on them, but hey what the heck right, they make me proud.

AL

 

[al6517]

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We are not allowed in the row's during the judging as you can imagine why, so it's hard to hear the judges critiques. But we can see them write on the cards where we place and there is always high 5's and backslapping and chest bumpimn when the get high marks. they don't run any of the higher awards till Sunday morning where all the best from all the breeds are lined up and all the judges get after them to decide to overall show winners, that always is a super tense time for anybody with a bird on best in show row.

 

[ladyride]

Those are some massive, pretty chickens. One of those get ahold of you look out. Good luck Al with your show & goodness gracious yes please post how you did. ( I am betting you bring home some nice awards )

They are some really nice looking birds.

 

[al6517]

Thank you!! your so kind.

 

[JD4570]

Al, I hope this pays off for you literally. I can see you've put a lot of time and effort into your birds. They are beautiful, just beautiful.

 

[oshun55555]

Al you must be so proud of those birds, my god you can without a doubt tell some breeding went into those beauties. If you don't come away with prizes it would be a crime.

 

[flocksalot]

Al, I have some of the Dark Cornish and they are some of my favorite yard art. I can not believe how calm, quit, and gentle they are. My 8 year old the aspiring chicken farmer calls them blueberries. They remind him of the girl on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that needed to be squeezed. They always have such hugh crops. One of our girls is currently coparentling some chicks with a Buff Minorca. Lucy Lu is an awesome broody! Especially since she is still pretty young. They are almost 8 months right now. They also forage better than any other breed I have ever had. Carmelita will follow me into the shed and she has pretty much picked it clean of all bugs including her favorite-spiders. Now she has been following me up to the gardens looking for bugs. My turkeys don't know what to think of her up there. I'm looking to find a roo to breed to my 7 hens but for now they are running with a Dominique. I'm not looking to show, but I am hoping for some meaty boys for dinner. They are exactly what I would want in a true dual purpose bird. Great egg layers and meaty carcass. Completely blows away the RIR that I originally got for that purpose. No meat, but they sure can lay. Sad what they have done to that breed, or at least the strain I got. Now those red laced babies you got would look pretty cool on my lawn too, and meaty on my table. Sure wish I could breed with knowledge like you do, but alas my talents are elsewhere.

 

[greenhorn]

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I will sure do it for ya Bee, It's always a full weekend of running and running but lot's a fun too. I stay up there for 3 day's till the awards ceremony on Sunday. Yea bee they are very full bodied boogers, and just wait till they get grown and I show them next year as full cocks and Hen's, they develop very late and still have another 18mo to finish growing out.

I hope the whites go far as I suspect they should, I have been getting calls for birds all over the country and the price just goes up after the shows and the additional ribbons LOL can you say $$ Cha Ching $$

Iam sure now you can see why I am so passionate and proud about them, and I do spend way to much time effort and $$ on them, but hey what the heck right, they make me proud.

AL

Very cool hope you take down the house with your birds. Hope the price don't go up too high for those of us standing in line to get some of your birds though lol.

 

[flocksalot]

So Al, my 8 year old got flogged by his Dominique tonight. He's used to the gander going after him, but didn't expect it from one of his roosters. He's pretty good at taking the gander down a few pegs. Poor Georgie Porgie just hangs his head and cries after he finally gets let go by my son. Don't feel sorry for the stupid goose people. He deserves every bit of it.

So for the last year my son has been practicing on Georgie and wouldn't you know it the most docile of our roos, Gabriel, suddenly decides Alex is a threat. I was busy taking care of the juveniles and heard quit a commotion going on. The chickens were all in an uproar. I thought maybe the Bald Eagle that has been low flying over the coops was back and hurriedly ran around the Big Coop, what we call the old ladies coop, to see my son chasing Gabriel around the yard and then cornering him in the horse shed. Then he had his horse "go get that stupid rooster"! Our horses will chase the chickens out of their yard when we tell them too, so one of our geldings got him back on the run. my son continued to chase that silly rooster around until both were so worn out I practically had to carry them both in. Poor Gabriel had to wolf down food as soon as he got into the coop. He needed to replenish his energy. He also stayed on the other side of the coop from my son while he picked up eggs. I went back to the juveniles knowing my son could handle himself and all the roosters in that house darn well knew it. They are back to their symbiotic relationship.

Now Gabriel is the most docile of our roos. Although I must say we rarely have any snarkyness from a roo. We currently have 17 actively breeding roos. The biggest problem we have is from overly hormonal young roos, but a few nights of living in the "Big House" and having our old roo kick the snot out of them and the old ladies wiping the floor with them usually does the trick. We have never had that problem with Gabriel. He has always been very gentle with the hens and never overly aggressive with the other roos. As a matter of fact he and Napoleon, our Silver Spangled Hamburg roo, generally will have their flocks near or intermingled. All our flocks free range.

Alex is generally carrying a hen around, but I don't think that is what got Gabriel all feral. Splash, our Blue Andalusian, has been getting a bit aggressive with the hens and I think he has been making a run for Gabriel's girls. Splash will be living in the Big House for a few nights again to cool his jets and if that doesn't work he will be caged. If that doesn't work Alex will look forward to eating him. As for Gabriel I would be shocked if he tries to flog Alex again. That there boy, he's one crazy little rooster.