OHio ~ Come on Buckeyes, let me know your out there!

[cabinchicky]

ToniTalley I understand you want to give him a home but think of this please. Do you want him to pass the aggressiveNess on to any chicks he may make? That and do you want to look over your shoulder every time you go out there?It's not worth the risk especially if you have small children who could be hurt or if someone else would need to care for them for you.

 

[big medicine]

ToniTalley I understand you want to give him a home but think of this please. Do you want him to pass the aggressiveNess on to any chicks he may make? That and do you want to look over your shoulder every time you go out there?It's not worth the risk especially if you have small children who could be hurt or if someone else would need to care for them for you.

Following up on this, many times have I been set up at a swap (back when we could) and have a non chicken person walk by and be drawn over to look at my birds. Often they get to telling how their grandma or somebody had chickens back when they were kids and how that rooster used to flog and chase them. All these years later that is the lasting impression they have.

 

[ToniTalley]

I understand yet this is his nature and he takes good care of his girls. They live in a locked fenced area and we eat all eggs, do not want to be raising chicks. But saying that, he is treading on thin ice! We know someone who will remove him to freezer camp for us.

 

[cabinchicky]

ToniTalley, I understand really. Had to deal with the same thing this past year. 3 roos who grew up together but the smallest became a lil $!#/! Hope you are able to get through this and move on with a better tempered male.

 

[ToniTalley]

If foghorn has to go, he won't be replaced. No more Roos, we don't want to raise chicks so no need for one. We only have him because he needed a home.

 

[cabinchicky]

ToniTalley ah I see. well that's cleared up. I like my roos and hope to have a good couple of hatches here in the spring instead of friends hatching out my girls offspring. I hope to increase my Cochins and replace a few I lost in the mixed flock. The EE'S are still on the way out and I have yet to find their replacements.

 

[ToniTalley]

We seem to be the home for wayward chickens, the new one we just got a few weeks ago was a stray eeking out a living in a city alley. People would toss bread to her. She has gotten pretty chubby since living here, we call her Annie for orphan annie. We also have catfish in our pond, originally to eat but then we can't bear to kill them, so they are also freeloaders like the chickens, lol.

 

[cabinchicky]

I have freeloading hens who haven't came out of molt yet!

 

[ToniTalley]

Our are just coming out of molt, but only one lays out of the 5 girls. And now that the days are so short, cleaning the poop board is getting to be a daily necessity! I need to plan on how to remodel the coop so I can have a deeper layer of pdz on the board and then I won't have to scoop every day.

 

[Skeeter10]

hey toni put large storage totes underneath the roost and when they get partlyor full then empty them