My first Adult Roo

[Appylover]

We bought a large probably 2 year old or older RIR rooster. Hes not much of a people bird but he doesn't attack us yet. And hes already doing his job. He seems to like my daughter the most out of us and allows her to pick him up and carry him around. Anyway here is Big Bird in all his crowing glory.

 

[GardenGal]

What a huge, good looking guy! I'm sure whoever you got him from was so relieved he'd have a good home. Hope he does really well

 

[Nicole01]

He's beautiful! I'd love to have a rooster, but hubby says no way.

 

[Appylover]

The place we got the birds from was umm less than sanitary. had it not been a got to have NOW type deal I would have run fast the other way. He has never been out of the 10x12 coop he shared with no less than 30 other birds. The pullets I got with him shared a large yard with over 200 chickens ranging in age from day olds to 5 month olds. Every where you stepped there was 2 inches of feces, and every few feet dead birds or partial birds. Guy says he had some killed by rain but these were pecked to death. We brought them home, clipped wings, dusted with Seven and gave them all a dose of sugar and ACV water. Traumatic for them but they are all doing well now. He does his job well letting us know if a sparrow farts in a tree. Letting the girls eat first and even managing the fights between them and keeping my ducks from pulling tail feathers. He gathers all the babies up and huddles over them like a protective daddy. I just love him so far.

 

[GardenGal]

Poor baby! I'm so glad he's with you now.

 

[Nicole01]

My front yard was like that, full of poop. It's because my girls love to hang out in there all day. My husband complained, so I came up with the idea to spray it into the ground. It works extremely well! I now spray a few times a day before it gets too baked in the sun. I only have 7 up there. My young ones are not quite with the group yet, but they are trying.

It doesn't take long for the poop to pile up outside. I'm so glad the sprayer melts it right into the ground. I'm going to have the greenest grass in the neighborhood!

 

[Appylover]

This was really old. Like 3 inches of old. While I can see a front yard filling with poo very fast this was like a bat cave deep. Not to mention the dead birds laying around some umm had not been picked up in days. The smell hit you first.

 

[speckledhen]

Did you quarantine him for a month? I wasn't quite clear on that. Coming from a nasty place like that, especially, you'd want to have kept him away from your flock for that long for any respiratory symptoms to come to the surface in order to protect your hens.

We have only purchased one grown bird, my first rooster, a BR, in the entire going on 7 years of owning chickens. His environment was not nice, either--pen back in dark woods, full of mud, black tank of drinking water, only corn for nutrition, living with a grown turkey who decimated his comb.

Hawkeye was in quarantine for 5 full weeks in the house in a large wire dog crate, during which time we treated his bad lice infestation, his case of favus (fungal infection of comb/wattles/face), wormed him and made sure he was not a carrier of some respiratory illness before allowing him access to the hens. And this kid who owned him was an FFA kid, if you can believe it! Hawkeye paid us back in spades by being a true gentleman in every sense of the word, but it was stressful always wondering if he'd bring some disease with him so we have never bought started birds since that time, only hatched them here from reputable breeders who never treat respiratory gunk (they take an axe to symptomatic birds).

Hope your rooster is as wonderful as Hawkeye was.