Pros and Cons of Roosters

[NotabitaiI]

Pros: extra chicken who won't die from something related to egg laying, can be the one with a big memorable personality, crows, fertile eggs, cannon fodder for the weim should they escape, they are usually really good looking and I like watching a good rooster be a good rooster.

Cons: they crow, they don't lay and they can break your heart should they become too aggressive to keep

I don't like chickens very much but I do LOVE roosters, a good roo will make your whole experience with chickens a lot more fun but a bad one could make you miserable. Keep a good one, don't waste your time and energy keeping a meanie when there are so many good boys just waiting for a home.

 

[KRack]

The idea of a flock raised rooster turning out the best behavior wise is intriguing, we see the same issues with bulls in cattle. Dairy bulls are notoriously nasty, being bottle raised they have no fear of people and are perfectly happy to kill you for no reason. Beef bulls are raised by the cow in the herd and rarely cause problems if you use basic common sense around cattle. Even bottle raised kittens and foals have issues, the mare has no problem whomping the little bugger when he bites or kicks, but the human foster raiser doesn’t have the heart and you get a cat that bites or a spoiled pony you can’t do a thing with. I think there is a lesson for human parents and teachers as well, without wise discipline our own kids will likewise grow up with issues that affect whole generations and our society at large. We are quickly becoming a society of rogue roosters, wow that’s more philosophical than this post was meant to contain!

I love this so much. So. True.

Animal parents do not mess around when it comes to disciplining their young. And those littles quickly learn to fall in line, and are all the more safe and better off for it.

 

[BonnieBlue]

Thank you all for the wealth of information from experience. This place is invaluable to me for learning more along this journey of my goal towards being the crazy old chicken and dog lady. I have only been doing this for 2.5 years now, and although my father had chickens (and was an ag major from an A&M college), he is no longer around to learn from.

Y'all really are the best!