Year two in a rebuild, and I am back to adding some cockerels (about 2 months old) after Snowman did not turn out. I got two very pretty pieces of eye candy. Turned them in with the layers. And one of them was on the strut...strutted by Mrs. Feather, who promptly whipped his butt, I am sure mentioned changing diapers, and eventually drug him by his comb/ear...Looking very like Mrs. Ritchie in 7th grade escorting BW down the hall by his ear. The second boy, must have spoke disrespectfully with Ms Blackstone - and received a lecture with some pecks to emphasize her point.
This morning things are fairly calm in the run. No one is hiding, or perched out of reach. I only plan on keeping one cockerel...but oh my are the pretty. We will see how this goes. I truly believe roosters are crap shoots, but I do think that sometimes you get a better boy being raised in a multiple generational flock. No person lives in the coop with them, and a lot of cockerels get away with stuff when people are not there, unless there is a bigger bird, thumping some manners in them 24/7.
Mrs K
This morning things are fairly calm in the run. No one is hiding, or perched out of reach. I only plan on keeping one cockerel...but oh my are the pretty. We will see how this goes. I truly believe roosters are crap shoots, but I do think that sometimes you get a better boy being raised in a multiple generational flock. No person lives in the coop with them, and a lot of cockerels get away with stuff when people are not there, unless there is a bigger bird, thumping some manners in them 24/7.
Mrs K
