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Welcome to BYC! You have a beautiful cockrel.
Who can resist showing off their roosters!
My 3 year old rooster and cockrels are all (giant) easter eggers.
Here is a favorite pic of my rooster and a couple of his offsprings from this year.
Doris
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Goliath (with a half sister) at 14 to 15 week
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Butterbean 6 weeks
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I hope we will see more of your shamo. I'd love to have one, but I'm more interested in keeping several males and letting them range together.
 
janiedoe said:
Welcome to BYC! You have a beautiful cockrel.
Who can resist showing off their roosters!
My 3 year old rooster and cockrels are all (giant) easter eggers.
Here is a favorite pic of my rooster and a couple of his offsprings from this year.
Doris
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Goliath (with a half sister) at 14 to 15 week
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Butterbean 6 weeks
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I hope we will see more of your shamo. I'd love to have one, but I'm more interested in keeping several males and letting them range together.
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Thanks for the reply. They are brilliant with the hens and honestly, I don’t have any issues with them fighting between one another. I have 4 shamo cockerels wandering around and they just keep out each others way. It does help they can wander as far as the eye can see
 
NorthEastGameBirds said:
Thanks for the reply. They are brilliant with the hens and honestly, I don’t have any issues with them fighting between one another. I have 4 shamo cockerels wandering around and they just keep out each others way. It does help they can wander as far as the eye can see
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Just curious, how old are they? Do you have a plan, if they start fighting? Such as additional pens?
They are magnificent birds. I'm a sucker for big, beautiful, chickens.
 
janiedoe said:
Just curious, how old are they? Do you have a plan, if they start fighting? Such as additional pens?
They are magnificent birds. I'm a sucker for big, beautiful, chickens.
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I’ve got some from a few weeks upto about a year roughly. I’m lucky in the respect I have a lot of woodland and open fields for them to wander in. There is most certainly a pecking order between the cockerels but as I say they are pretty chill and don’t go out their way to attack one another. Regarding sleeping arrangements I have noticed 1 stays with the majority of my hens where as the others all choose to roost together. I wouldn’t like them in a confined space for a long period though, that’s bound to cause issues. They all scurry in for feeding time and again no issues there. In conclusion; Hardy birds who were bred to fight but with a lot of space they know their boundary’s. It’s a shame people stick them in a confined pen with other fighting birds and make them fight. They would rather have the easy life IMO.
 
NorthEastGameBirds said:
I’ve got some from a few weeks upto about a year roughly. I’m lucky in the respect I have a lot of woodland and open fields for them to wander in. There is most certainly a pecking order between the cockerels but as I say they are pretty chill and don’t go out their way to attack one another. Regarding sleeping arrangements I have noticed 1 stays with the majority of my hens where as the others all choose to roost together. I wouldn’t like them in a confined space for a long period though, that’s bound to cause issues. They all scurry in for feeding time and again no issues there. In conclusion; Hardy birds who were bred to fight but with a lot of space they know their boundary’s. It’s a shame people stick them in a confined pen with other fighting birds and make them fight. They would rather have the easy life IMO.
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I like your philosophy. I agree that plenty of room to roam, is necessary for a multi-rooster flock. Again, they are absolutely beautiful birds!
 

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