Show off your roosters

[Miss Lydia]

I like to call it a poultry specialty store; my boss's slogan is "One-Stop Chicken Shop." We retail things like chicken feed and supplies out of the storefront and we have pens with a few breeders and lots of started pullets around back. It's a very fun place to work. I actually get paid for handling and taming the birds, now ain't that the dream. Granted there is plenty of heavy lifting and hard work to be done but it's quite worth it.

If you're ever out here in Nor. California you're welcome to visit us!

Thanks for the invite, it does sound like a really great place to work. I bet it is popular.

 

[sdm111]

 

[QueenMisha]

Thanks for the invite, it does sound like a really great place to work. I bet it is popular. 

Yes, we have a good customer base. Of course our location isn't the greatest - we're kind of hidden behind a big automotive shop and most of our new customers are completely baffled that we've been here for three years, because no one can see us from the road!

Beautiful cockbirds there. I love the henny game.

 

[Shadow920]

I took the opportunity to take more pictures of my other roos today!



This little guy is Hilbert. He's a little pest, who instead of going out and eating with the rest of the birds, pecks at my leg until I pick him up and put him in the feed trashcan to eat by himself.



And this is Francis Dolarhyde! The only rooster of my "Hannibal" crew of EEs.




This here is The Doctor, my Summie boy.



My BlueCM cockerel - he's not named, but I'll be using him alongside Francis over a bunch of EE hens this coming spring.



Not actually a rooster, but a capon. And a shame too! I have a breeding project I needed a bird like him for; problem is, I only came up with the concept for the project after I caponized him... oops.



One of my (hatchery) Dark Cornish boys. I have two of them caponed and the other three unaltered, and I can't really tell which is which - I left them unbanded to see if they would be noticeably different when grown. So this could really be a rooster or a capon.



My two oldest SussexxRock sex link capons. They are growing out beautifully, and I can't wait for their younger brothers to get as big and handsome as them.




Dean Winchester (big) - he was supposed to be a capon but SOMEBODY (me) apparently missed something during the operation, so he's taken to crowing and mating lately. Admittedly it's not the worst thing to happen - he has some interesting genetics. 1/2 EE, 1/4 Jersey Giant, 1/4 show quality True Ameraucana).



Sam Winchester - fellow capon of Dean, but his operation seems to have been done fully.



Elvis, Polish x Naked Neck who I got from a friend as a "pullet". Hmm.




And the five boys living under my porch: Crele, Buff, Cochin Mutt 1, Cochin Mutt 2, and Fox Bait

what's a capon?

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

A capon is a castrated rooster. It's a pretty rare operation today, although it was extremely popular in the early-mid 1900s. I taught myself to perform the procedure via online guides earlier this year.
Originally is was to make good meat birds of cockerels. A capon does not get tough or gamey like a rooster, and it develops a good layer of fat. Basically, it makes it taste like a hen, while growing even larger than a unaltered rooster. It can also be used for those who want to keep a rooster for their beautiful appearance but do not want a crowing, mating, potentially aggressive bird in their flock.

 

[ChickClick101]

These are my speckled sussex/silver laced cochin bantam crosses!!!!! They are actually brothers!

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Nice!! Especially love the "stance" of the first one.

These are my speckled sussex/silver laced cochin bantam crosses!!!!! They are actually brothers!

They both have great colors, look at those tail feathers ~ pretty boys!

 

[chickengr]

A capon is a castrated rooster. It's a pretty rare operation today, although it was extremely popular in the early-mid 1900s. I taught myself to perform the procedure via online guides earlier this year.
Originally is was to make good meat birds of cockerels. A capon does not get tough or gamey like a rooster, and it develops a good layer of fat. Basically, it makes it taste like a hen, while growing even larger than a unaltered rooster. It can also be used for those who want to keep a rooster for their beautiful appearance but do not want a crowing, mating, potentially aggressive bird in their flock.

you have beautiful birds. sorry for orpington.

at what age do you castrate them?

 

[QueenMisha]

you have beautiful birds. sorry for orpington.

at what age do you castrate them?

Thanks. Usually around 12 weeks. 14-15 at the latest. After that my tools can't really spread the ribs, and it becomes more dangerous for the bird as they age.

 

[TheTwoRoos]

Does catstrating them make them any different,is if so,what all do they stop doing?