Official BYC Poll: Do You Keep a Rooster?

[AltonaAcres]

I always have a handful of roos around

 

[Willow2253]

I have...6 or 7. Most are young, I intend to keep 2 or 3. Really I would like to keep them all but I don’t have the right setup to.

 

[Dinoroar]

Gosh I love roosters. Maybe a few to many at the moment but so far they get along.

 

[ForTheLoveOfSilkies]

I have 1 roo, 1 cockerel (his son), 1 hen and 6 point of lay pullets (pullets are all Roos daughters)
I wasn't going to get a rooster because I was worried he would attack my kids but I gave in after my Silkies kept going broody wanting to hatch babies. I got this boy 5 months old for free and he never has attacked any person although a bit skittish. He's very watchful and good to his ladies. He has made a few hens happy last Spring

 

[Dancingwnature]

My property owners association just began looking the other way on chickens in 2018- mostly because several of us, including the POA president's partner, quietly acquired a few hens. The bylaws haven't been changed though. I'd love to have a rooster! It's ridiculous, each of our 20 members has at least 6 acres and no one can see their neighbour's properties! We're in mountainous, old growth, temperate rainforest surrounded by millions of acres of wildlife refuge and Natl Park. One rooster in a few member's coops wouldn't be a huge amount of noise pollution!! Plus, we have a very large number of predators: Black & Brown bears, cougars, bobcats, wolves, coyotes, Bald Eagles, etc. A rooster would make the hens a bit safer, wouldn't it? My cat and the Stellar's Jays wake me up at 5:30 every morning - a rooster could just join in chorus!

 

[Dancingwnature]

Didn’t plan on having one, then didn’t plan on keeping one, but I love him. Now that we have worked out our differences and we have an understanding of each other.
I say ‘hello jerk’ every morning lol
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My handsome Gwynnie

What breed is he? He's gorgeous!!

 

[JaeG]

I'm so happy we can finally have some roos. We have two young cockerels in our flock of allsorts, and we are currently growing up some British Tailed Araucana we hatched, and I'll be keeping quite a few pretty boys from them.

 

[neo71665]

Yes for the most part just one. I do have a young one coming up but as soon as he is old enough to take his daddy's place daddy is going in a stew pot.

 

[nuthatched]

First rooster in a while, actually.
Bruce is non aggresive, pretty quiet, he usually only crows about 5:45 am and once again in the afternoon. He's very good to his gals, though his mating dance has all the elegance of a Clydesdale having a stroke. Or maybe an old timey weightlifter (with the handle bar mustache, you know the one) tap dancing.

 

[Beaglegal]

My property owners association just began looking the other way on chickens in 2018- mostly because several of us, including the POA president's partner, quietly acquired a few hens. The bylaws haven't been changed though. I'd love to have a rooster! It's ridiculous, each of our 20 members has at least 6 acres and no one can see their neighbour's properties! We're in mountainous, old growth, temperate rainforest surrounded by millions of acres of wildlife refuge and Natl Park. One rooster in a few member's coops wouldn't be a huge amount of noise pollution!! Plus, we have a very large number of predators: Black & Brown bears, cougars, bobcats, wolves, coyotes, Bald Eagles, etc. A rooster would make the hens a bit safer, wouldn't it? My cat and the Stellar's Jays wake me up at 5:30 every morning - a rooster could just join in chorus!

Do you live on the peninsula?