Sunshine Flock
Crowing
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Scruffy the Welsummer Rooster is looking for a loving new home. He was hatched along with his brother Charlie on the Fourth of July last summer, so he's not quite a year old yet.
He's smaller than Charlie, who we're keeping for now. He has a very calm and sweet disposition, and only bit my finger and ankles a few times when he was starting to sexually mature last year. I can walk by him without any response, and I can massage his wattle, which he loves. But he did try to nip at me when we examined him recently after a scuffle with his brother.
We wanted to grow Scruffy out to assess his personality before rehoming him. Scruffy will let you hold him, but he's not cuddly. He just wants to be a rooster and loves trying to make baby roosters. He's not active all day long, just a few times a day. But if he's anything like his father, Henry, those eggs will be fertile.
Scruffy's dad is famous on Backyardchickens.com. There's a whole discussion about his rescue from a coyote who took him into the woods. I let my guard down when I was free ranging my flock. Amazingly, Henry survived, although it did involve sleeping with him in my bedroom for a month.
Anyway, this is Henry's second round of sons. The folks who adopted his first batch of boys adore them. They're wonderful roosters and were re-homed not too far from where we live.
If you're looking for a crockpot chicken, then please don't contact me. Scruffy is charming, good security and very attentive to the hens. He's a keeper. His brother picks on him and they chest bump and scuffle quite a bit, so when you come to meet Scruffy, you'll likely see some discolorations to his comb and wattle from a few minor wounds.
These wounds are small and will heal, and such is life with roosters. They mostly do great together and always tuck up against each other on the same roost every night, sometimes with their mom Gertrude in between them.
I had the hardest time taking photos. Scruffy knew I was up to something and was very suspicious, so these were the only decent photos I was able to take.
We'll be sure to practice good social distancing when you come to meet Scruffy, but it would be hard to sterilize a rooster, and I don't think they make specially designed face masks that can accommodate a beak.
Thank you!!
Scruffy the Welsummer Rooster is looking for a loving new home. He was hatched along with his brother Charlie on the Fourth of July last summer, so he's not quite a year old yet.
He's smaller than Charlie, who we're keeping for now. He has a very calm and sweet disposition, and only bit my finger and ankles a few times when he was starting to sexually mature last year. I can walk by him without any response, and I can massage his wattle, which he loves. But he did try to nip at me when we examined him recently after a scuffle with his brother.
We wanted to grow Scruffy out to assess his personality before rehoming him. Scruffy will let you hold him, but he's not cuddly. He just wants to be a rooster and loves trying to make baby roosters. He's not active all day long, just a few times a day. But if he's anything like his father, Henry, those eggs will be fertile.
Scruffy's dad is famous on Backyardchickens.com. There's a whole discussion about his rescue from a coyote who took him into the woods. I let my guard down when I was free ranging my flock. Amazingly, Henry survived, although it did involve sleeping with him in my bedroom for a month.
Anyway, this is Henry's second round of sons. The folks who adopted his first batch of boys adore them. They're wonderful roosters and were re-homed not too far from where we live.
If you're looking for a crockpot chicken, then please don't contact me. Scruffy is charming, good security and very attentive to the hens. He's a keeper. His brother picks on him and they chest bump and scuffle quite a bit, so when you come to meet Scruffy, you'll likely see some discolorations to his comb and wattle from a few minor wounds.
These wounds are small and will heal, and such is life with roosters. They mostly do great together and always tuck up against each other on the same roost every night, sometimes with their mom Gertrude in between them.
I had the hardest time taking photos. Scruffy knew I was up to something and was very suspicious, so these were the only decent photos I was able to take.
We'll be sure to practice good social distancing when you come to meet Scruffy, but it would be hard to sterilize a rooster, and I don't think they make specially designed face masks that can accommodate a beak.
Thank you!!
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