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[feliciadawn]

I just want to say that Adam is an amazing flock master, always offering food to the ladies. He is very gentle and even lets me put on his crow collar. I truly love him and am crying in grief as I write this message.

 

[TillyPeeps]

I just want to say that Adam is an amazing flock master, always offering food to the ladies. He is very gentle and even lets me put on his crow collar. I truly love him and am crying in grief as I write this message.

I'm so sorry. Hopefully, he can find a lovely new home.

 

[VictoriaTemple]

I’m so sorry @feliciadawn . It’s an awful way to lose a family member and I truly feel for you. I have 10 roosters already in a flock of 36, which is a little uncomfortable right now since this is the first spring (aka mating season) for most of them. My hens are, shall we say, very understanding. And patient. Even my banty pen has an extra (standard-sized) roo in it (the big boys were picking on him). I love the boys very much and I would love to help, and Adam is so gorgeous and clearly deserves a good home, I’m just not sure he would be happy here. How soon do you need him gone? I’m praying on it, I want to help I’m just not sure it would work out.

 

[feliciadawn]

Thank you @VictoriaTemple. I guess he needs to go as soon as possible. The township is going to come now and look at my set up, and they are going to find it not in compliance even without Adam. My coop is not 20 feet from my property line, and there is really no way to make it 20 feet from my property line.

But with so many competitors I am not sure Adam will do. He has been the only roo since he was about 3 months old.

 

[Lelanae]

When are they coming? How well does the collar work? You are living my worst nightmare! (I am supposed to only have 4 hens--no roos and my solution is a privacy fence and bribing my very nice neighbors with eggs--but they won't tolerate a roo.) Can you hide him inside until they leave or until you find a new home for him? I had a friend who drove to Amish country with her Black Copper Maran cockerels and knocked on doors! She had great success. He is GORGEOUS. Faithful Friends Rescue in Delaware rehomed a roo and three hens last year--one of their board members loves chickens and has land.

 

[rum3002576]

Anyone have any standard size blue or black cochins for sale? Chicks preferably but eggs if if I have to hatch out.

 

[VictoriaTemple]

When are they coming? How well does the collar work? You are living my worst nightmare! (I am supposed to only have 4 hens--no roos and my solution is a privacy fence and bribing my very nice neighbors with eggs--but they won't tolerate a roo.) Can you hide him inside until they leave or until you find a new home for him? I had a friend who drove to Amish country with her Black Copper Maran cockerels and knocked on doors! She had great success. He is GORGEOUS. Faithful Friends Rescue in Delaware rehomed a roo and three hens last year--one of their board members loves chickens and has land.

Truth be told, those are better options than I can offer. My roos are just too young and feisty, I may have to thin them out and I really don’t know how. Egg production has dropped and a few of the hens are looking a little barebacked. We’ll be ok but I really shouldn’t take on another roo. I’m so sorry.

 

[Lelanae]

Felicia, let me know if you want me to contact my Faithful Friends contact. I can also post Adam's picture on KennettSquare Nextdoor.

 

[dheltzel]

Felicia, let me know if you want me to contact my Faithful Friends contact. I can also post Adam's picture on KennettSquare Nextdoor.

I can attest to his genetics. He is pure, standard bred, Ameraucana, not from a hatchery, and he would be competitive in a show with other Ameraucanas. He definitely carries the lavender gene, which came from a show line of Lavender (or self blue) Ameraucanas. He may also be carrying a recessive gene for silkied feathering, but that is hard to work with.
These black Ameraucana roosters are drop-dead gorgeous in the sunlight, with green or purple iridescence like a Black East Indies duck or Black Sumatra chicken. I always keep some of these guys running loose on the farm, releasing extra cockerels every summer. They do very well as feral chickens, they seem to have "street smarts".

 

[feliciadawn]

By way of update: It looks like I will have a political fight to keep my chickens whether I rehome Adam or not. That is because, per code, my coop and pen needs to be 20 feet from all property boundaries and buildings and my coop(s) are not even close. Putting it in the middle of my property would require the coop to be on an unsafe slant on a rock cliff. I might have to litigate on this, which I am willing to do as necessary. I have some experience with pro se litigation, and I also have lots of lawyer friends.

That said, if I can't quiet Adam with his collar, I don't think it is fair to keep him. So I am going to try the collar I have another day or two and see if I can get it to work. It worked yesterday, but then today he regressed a bit. I have a second type of collar in the mail -- if that arrives soon I will try that as well.

Adam is a gorgeous and friendly rooster, but now he kind of dislikes me since I keep chasing him down to stop him from crowing. Before this week, he was by far my most friendly chicken. I think he must have the silkie gene, because the lavender I got out of him seems to have some silkie type feathers. That lavender olive egger is a boy as well and I have a black olive egger who also seems to be a boy, both around 7 weeks. Lots to rehome.