Bare with me as I am trying to find some good candidates from my existing flock to be our second rooster. (Haha can't believe I will have a large enough flock to need 2! 
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This 9 week old here comes from a neighbor's farm, my first batch of "mixed breed" chicks. My neighbor has spoken highly of the Chantecler rooster she used to have...and I see this cockerel and wonder, are those his genes?!
He is double the girth of any of his hatch mates and is super chill. The other cockerels run up to him hackles up and he just casually leans forward as if to say "You see how big I am, right?" And they scurry off.
PS. The one and only time he has ever been picked up is in the top photo. I'm a believer in giving my chickens their space. I made my son's day though asking him to model the size of this bird! (& that picture is from a week ago at 8 weeks, Lol! He also already has pointy neck and sale feathers coming in).
Any thoughts are appreciated!
)This 9 week old here comes from a neighbor's farm, my first batch of "mixed breed" chicks. My neighbor has spoken highly of the Chantecler rooster she used to have...and I see this cockerel and wonder, are those his genes?!
He is double the girth of any of his hatch mates and is super chill. The other cockerels run up to him hackles up and he just casually leans forward as if to say "You see how big I am, right?" And they scurry off.
PS. The one and only time he has ever been picked up is in the top photo. I'm a believer in giving my chickens their space. I made my son's day though asking him to model the size of this bird! (& that picture is from a week ago at 8 weeks, Lol! He also already has pointy neck and sale feathers coming in).
Any thoughts are appreciated!
