alibabba
Songster
Hi, Anyone else(newbies of course)have concerns about adding or keeping a rooster?
I got a rooster, Since the girls relentlessly paced their pen fence to range the full yard. These are "okay with confinement breeds", but oh my god, once they got a taste of the big wild world, they were lost...
Daytime predators, not so much, it's a rural neighborhood.
But I worry about a random hawk taking a break in my giant tree and discovering my chicken stash!
A rooster (not ready for a guardian dog) was one thing I could do.
I enjoy the peace of my chickens, I love that they run to see me and hang around.
Add a rooster, that dynamic changes, plus your little chickens being manhandled is disconcerting at first.
I told my son I wasn't sure about the new flock dynamics of having a rooster. We decided to see if he would grow on me.
Today, I am grown on.
Tragedy overnight. That smarty didn't crow this morning. Good move maybe, not letting the foxes know there were chickens to be had behind that closed door. +1
Came out ready for a fight. Saw there was trouble, announced that he was there now and no more evil doers would be tolerated. +1
Watched extra carefully all day. In the pouring rain all day! Hens went in, he didn't. He looked terrible, he might get pneumonia, but he watched...even when all were in the coop, he still watched. +2
He has only been out with the girls for a couple of weeks, they don't even like him much. Maybe he will grow on them, like he did for me.
Good Boy stays.
I got a rooster, Since the girls relentlessly paced their pen fence to range the full yard. These are "okay with confinement breeds", but oh my god, once they got a taste of the big wild world, they were lost...
Daytime predators, not so much, it's a rural neighborhood.
But I worry about a random hawk taking a break in my giant tree and discovering my chicken stash!
A rooster (not ready for a guardian dog) was one thing I could do.
I enjoy the peace of my chickens, I love that they run to see me and hang around.
Add a rooster, that dynamic changes, plus your little chickens being manhandled is disconcerting at first.
I told my son I wasn't sure about the new flock dynamics of having a rooster. We decided to see if he would grow on me.
Today, I am grown on.
Tragedy overnight. That smarty didn't crow this morning. Good move maybe, not letting the foxes know there were chickens to be had behind that closed door. +1
Came out ready for a fight. Saw there was trouble, announced that he was there now and no more evil doers would be tolerated. +1
Watched extra carefully all day. In the pouring rain all day! Hens went in, he didn't. He looked terrible, he might get pneumonia, but he watched...even when all were in the coop, he still watched. +2
He has only been out with the girls for a couple of weeks, they don't even like him much. Maybe he will grow on them, like he did for me.
Good Boy stays.
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