Rooster/Cockerel Photo Thread

[MysteryChicken]

Here's my Nankin Rose Comb cockerel, Best Of Breed at the Tulsa State Fair September 2019:

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He's interesting looking. He looks bored.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I don't have a lot of pictures of him. He was slow to mature, but he does have his charm.
I like that you have your chickens for pets and eggs and potentially babies.
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He's black laced red. Blue doesn't breed true, so breeding two blue laced reds together will give you splash laced red, blue laced red, and black laced red. The only way to get 100% blue laced red chicks is to breed black laced red to splash laced red.

 

[Chebird]

Here are my three cockerels, all about seven months old. They all live peacefully together with twenty-one pullets/hens. The white EE is Virgel (previously Virgie); the brown EE is Fancy Pants (previously Maude), and the LB is Lurch (previously Becky). These pictures are from a few months ago.

 

[Angileen]

Here are my three cockerels, all about seven months old. They all live peacefully together with twenty-one pullets/hens. The white EE is Virgel (previously Virgie); the brown EE is Fancy Pants (previously Maude), and the LB is Lurch (previously Becky). These pictures are from a few months ago.View attachment 1930796 View attachment 1930797 View attachment 1930798

Your Brown EE sure is a beauty! I so love roosters.

 

[Trish1974]

Lil Sweet:

 

[333113]

He's interesting looking. He looks bored.

So many of the show birds are just exhausted by the time they are finished judging. Chickens are squawking and crowing, geese and ducks are calling. People keep walking by and talking to them and to their neighbors, who they never met before this show. At the Tulsa State Fair, you can check in your birds on the morning of the show (Saturday) or the night before. They are judged sometime during the day on Saturday, and have to stay overnight until Sunday afternoon, when they get to go home. And then there's the travel time.

Even during a one-day show you can see birds snoozing.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

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2 more cockerels I have now, Dorking cockerel up front, EE cockerel in the back.
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EE cockerel

That isn't an EE. He's a salmon faverolles.

 

[BantyChooks]

 

[igorsMistress]

That isn't an EE. He's a salmon faverolles.

Thanks, I agree. You're actually the second person to say that, but I didn't think so because he didn't have the fluffy cheeks and beard. However, I was spending time with the chicks last night and he's starting to get them.

He is the sweetest little guy! I'm going to see if I can find him a home. I'm uncomfortable keeping heavy, fluffy breeds in our heat after loosing a couple of hens to it.

 

[Chebird]

Here's an updated pic I took today of Fancy Pants (formally Maude).