Rooster beat up by his sons?

[cnboscia]

When we bought this house nearly two years ago the coops were already here. The people did a really good job on them. I'm pretty sure they are screwd in to keep them from moving.

 

[centrarchid]

I will see if I can replicate without using screws.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I like your set-up. Pretty hens too

I too like the roosting poles. Ours are fashioned into a "ladder" similar to what the old apple picking ladders look like. Ours also are screwed on the ends to keep from spinning when birds jump up and down. I believe we used 1 1/2".

 

[roosterhavoc]

My husbands grandparents both have ranches and he grew up around chickens. And the tie cord is pretty simple, you don't have to be a genius to tie a slip not. And no the vet didn't ask if I had fought my bird. Before anyone else tries to make anymore innuendos we DO NOT fight our birds! We only have chickens for eggs and because like them. We treat them like pets, not livestock.

I wasn't suggesting you fight birds. I'm saying between your husban making a tie cord, owning a dubbed rooster. Keeping the rooster on a tie cord and taking said rooster to the vet. With all that your saying you didn't know the bird was a gamecock and didn't know what they do. The whole deal seems to me to be another classic case of where someone thinks they can change the behavior of the birds with loving care. If I'm wrong I apologize.

 

[taimon01]

Any updates

 

[cnboscia]

Bruce was rescued from a gamecock breeder who got busted for fighting roosters. Bruce himself hadn't ever been fought, he was too young. My husband is familiar with how these birds are, I am not. I did not realize how soon they would go after each other. My younger chickens/roosters are just now 9 months old. We first separated the younger chickens from the older because the younger ones were eating the eggs, then we stopped letting them share yards because the older hens started to be mean to the younger, but when there were out roaming free they just went their own ways. My husband said he should have told me that they were too old to go out together anymore when I told him about the flooding, but didn't think about it at the time. Bruce was already dubbed when we got him, my husband knows how to make a tie cord(which anyone can learn from YouTube, but he was familiar with it because of his upbringing), and why would my taking him to the vet be bad??? We loved that bird and I was trying to save him, my husband, myself, and my children are heartbroken because he was a really friendly rooster who followed my husband and children around like a puppy.

 

[cnboscia]

This picture was just after Bruce had allowed my 4 year old to put him up

 

[cnboscia]

This was the day we brought him home. My husband had just made the tie cord so Bruce could be out of the coop and he would run away until he was use to his new home.

 

[cnboscia]

This was the first time he started following my husband around and he allowed him to pick him up and just carry him around.

 

[Eggcessive]

I'm glad that you rescued them, and he is a handsome rooster. This was a learning experience, and I think that you have done well. It is good that Centrarchid and others have given some help. You have also explained very clearly that you don't have fighting roosters, and hopefully no one else will assume that is the case.