Official BYC Poll: What Do You Use Your Rooster/s For?

[Panacake Farms]

I LOVE ROOSTERS!!!! They're the best!! I love how they crow!! I love their crows so much that I crow too!!! Then they crow back! They're just wonderful creatures! Sadly on the hens side, I love roosters more than hens. I love them sooo much!!! Sadly I currently don't have enough hens right now to own a rooster, so I currently don't have a rooster. I crow for my hens, but they've never seen a rooster crow before, so they're confused. I have been able to communicate with my hens by using a rooster's alert call to warm them of danger (and what type of danger it is), and they've understood me and acted accordingly to my warning. I miss owning roosters.

I love my roo!!!! Why don’t you try a Bachelor flock? I didn’t even know that was a thing until after I had hens, but it sounds fun!!

 

[Panacake Farms]

I got my roo by accident and I am so glad it happened! He is the best!! I don’t think I am his favorite person but I just love all the personality he brings. He keeps a watchful eye out for the girls and even comes looking to see if I am ok too. He’s just doing what instinct tells him to do.

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

I love my roo!!!! Why don’t you try a Bachelor flock? I didn’t even know that was a thing until after I had hens, but it sounds fun!!

I would like to, but I don't think that my parents would approve... Maybe someday though!

 

[PioneerChicks]

My roosters are for breeding, show, flock protection, taking care of the hens, their beauty, hopefully for meat sometime this year, and I simply love the challenge of taming a tough rooster; they make sure my chicken keeping days are exciting!

 

[Laura_BelgianBantams_63]

I cannot wait to get a rooster! Oh, yay! My Poll idea! Thanks @BYC Project Manager

 

[Araucana Nest]

For breeding but I do have a few more ( 10? ) than needed. They're so beautiful and the hens love their roosters. I choose gentle roos; the ones that beat up my hens are sold regardless of how beautiful or correct they may be. I've several roos I could stare at for hours and a couple I've kept even though they don't like me (but they like their hens). I've been toying around and reading about rooster colonies. I might one day set up a rooster colony in the back for all the roos I love. Why in the back? Cause one thing I could do with less of is the crowing.

 

[orrpeople]

If I get chicks, I always want them straight run because the cockerels are such a big part of my chicken keeping! We keep one or two and eat a few of each batch. We also enjoy hatching chicks - so they come in handy that way too!

My boys that I'm not using for flock protection or breeding (or eating!) live in their bachelor pad and do very well together - although they definitely have a pecking order like the girls do, and every now and then you have to make adjustments if someone is getting harassed.

 

[CluckerFamily]

My rooster is for protection. He does an amazing job at warning the ladies that a predator is around while they are all free ranging when I am not home. When everyone is safe inside the run or coop, he will lay down in the doorway.

 

[HappyDuckie]

My roosters are for protection, and breeding. One of them is a yard ornament and pet.

 

[centrarchid]

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I can run any chicken down. They can out turn me when fresh and accellerate faster,........... in the begining of chase, but I have endurance on my side and I can handle the heat better.