Rooster loose in the neighborhood

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Chirping
11 Years
Apr 19, 2010
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Baton Rouge
We've had a stray rooster in our midcity neighborhood since last October. I'm sure a backyarder let him loose since we can't have roosters in the city of Baton Rouge. He's a fine looking Easter Egger and he roosts in a tree down the street every night. He's survived several episodes of days of below freezing temperatures this winter. He has sort of been adopted by the neighborhood and our civic assoc has named him Gen. Westmoreland since he lives on Westmoreland Dr. He's well fed and quite popular, even with his early morning crowing. Now I've noticed since my 3 week old biddies have been outside in their coop and run, he is suddenly showing up outside our fence. Has he been able to smell them or something and can I expect him to start jumping the fence to visit my babies? Am I going to have a problem with the General?
 
I don't think he'll be a problem, he may get protective of your hens, and maybe you can get some fertilized eggs....................
He may just adopt you, and if the neighborhood has already accepted him, maybe it's not really a problem???Though, I just re-read, your chicks are three weeks, sorry, yes, I would watch - that big of an age difference, he may look at them as a food source.................
 
I will say that I had 2 adult EE roos and they were very protective of the babies once they started free-ranging. In fact, they adopted a lone BO and guinea that I had and raised them and protected them from the older hens and other roo (he was a BR). My silkie just hatched out some eggs and my one EE roo stands guard so they can eat in peace without the other hens and older babies trampling them.

Maybe I just got lucky with mine, but I think maybe he might know yours are pullets and is wanting to be their roo. I'd watch him and see how he acts. If he is clucking and giving them treats through the fence, that is a good sign. Maybe throw some bread to him and see what he does with it.

Good Luck!

Shelly
 
I thought we were the only ones!

We had a RIR hen loose in our neighborhood. She kept company with the neighbor's dog, I think he made her feel safe. The dog was old, half blind and mostly couldn't hear. DH joked that the dog thought it was the other neighbor's Golden Retriever who finally took him up on his offer to move in together
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The neighbor didn't like having her around though, because she'd roost on their chest freezer on the back porch - yucky mess! So we caught her and put her with our hens once we got the coop and run built. She adapted just fine and was a good hen for us for about a year until she died (she wasn't young when we got her.)
 
The most he may do is just plain try and take over. . . Be the man of the flock. . . . Or introduce a disease.
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He's fine just as long as you're there to see what first happens - If nothing goes on, then he's fine. If something happens, you need to keep him out of their reach.

We need pics though!
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I'd love to see this handsome, wild little EE roo.
 
He looks really really nice! But . . . if you make him "yours" then you're the one the city will tell to get rid of him . . . they probably won't grandfather him in just because he's adopted. Better for him, probably, if he stays the neighborhood pet (unless animal control gets called in).
 

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