What are some of your very best rooster stories? On this thread you can share'um all! Whether they be funny sad or of your boy's complete bravery feel free to share (or vent we all know how they can be). I can't wait to here your stories!
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That's so funny and cute I have a silkie roo who in my mixed flock of standard and bantam birds thinks he is a big boy roo lol but is the sweetest thing ever and has never been aggressive he will sit in my lap and watch his ladies.My two favorite rooster stories:
Barney I (barnevelder) was the sweetest, most delightful rooster. He always took such good care of his ladies, calling them over for treats, calling out warnings when hawks flew over. When he became a daddy for the first time, I wondered how he would be with the chicks as I broody hatch in the coop. Well, momma brought the babes out at about day 4 into the main coop area. An aggressive hen rushed over to put momma immediately into the lowest setting of the pecking order. Barney rushed over. Placed himself between momma with babies and the aggressive hen. He did his little swoop dance with lowered wing and literally scooped the aggressive hen out of the coop area so momma and babes could be undisturbed. I loved him even more.
Barney II (his son) is a good rooster, however not quite as bright as his father. Barney II likes to spar with Fife II (grandson of Barney with a Cream Legbar, his daddy Fife I sadly died from a heart attack at a young age). They can poke at each other through the fencing which also has some bird netting draped down. I went out one day to take care of the birds and noticed no Barney II. I found him hanging upsidedown on his side of the fence with spurs caught in the netting which had drooped down obviously pulled down in the fight. He looked totally ridiculous. I had no idea how long he had been hanging there. I walked over to him, and he merely looked up at me with a calm eye seemingly to say "need some help here." I gently picked him up, uprighted him, and set him off...with a slight limp, but sadly no smarter. He did it twice more before we corrected the netting. Each time he calmly hung upside down until I could rescue him. Each time politely allowing me to free him and set him back on his way. I do believe he has lost some street creds in front of his Barney ladies, while Fife II is laughing and strutting in front of his Cream Legbar and Olive Egger ladies. LOL.
LofMc
I do not, just 7 hens (hopefully adding 2 more next week), DH says no to the crowing
Ok thanks anyway what breed of hens are you guys gettingI do not, just 7 hens (hopefully adding 2 more next week), DH says no to the crowing