Snotty, vicious, gotta-be-a-roo and my new scary voice.

[ThePolishPrincess]

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OMG that was your pic on the homepage last week? They are sooo beautiful!




But yeah...there's a little 'tude there, for sure.

I'm going out to feed now. With a water pistol. It's a dragon's head where the eyes light up (red) and it makes a hissing sound...the water shoots out the base of the forked tongue.

I'm gonna chase that little twerp and drench him if he starts dragging the girls around by their head.

It's crazy: there are 3 food containers in a 10x14 coop, plus treats, plus some scratch on top of their roosts...he's just being ignorant.

I'll send you some of my cough drops.

Nope, not on the homepage! I'm sure no one really wants to see that. Dashie is quite a monster. The Mille Fluer is a little demon, too.

Oh, wow, I need to hear how that all works out for you! I'm considering bringing out a spray bottle once the weather becomes tolerable and I know I won't be making roo-cilces...accidently, of course.

Good luck with your deed!

 

[Sugar Sand Farm]

I think we all have come up against a really really mean roo. What gets me is when they are small and cute you pick them up and cuddle them and then wham the hormones kick in and your facing gonzilla everytime you go into the coop. I use a large fish net Once they have been chased with that they very willingly leave the coop quickly. If they dont they go into a corner. I use the net on two of our coops because the roos are so bad. Casper my white orpington attacks at you when you walk past the run, let alone go into the coop. Its a good thing for him that I want his chicks or he would be gone and fast.

 

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When I grow up I'm gonna get a photobucket account so I can post pics here.....

But, there are two brooders in one corner of the coop.

The bottom one is a wood frame with hardware cloth and chips in the bottom and a wire top. It's got the 15 penguins (Austrolorps) that the big girls love to 'chat' with thru the wire when they're sunbathing.

The top brooder is one of those long xmas tree plastic boxes from Wal-Mart with two big vent hatches with wire on the top, which has the 10 BSL chicks in it.

Since the top brooder is plastic, they don't poop down on the penguins. Both brooders have their own 250 red bulb, since it's snowing here.

In order to keep the big girls (and snotface) off of brooders I hung a curtain (just shadecloth) from the ceiling which I tuck underneath the top one...otherwise they'd be pooping down on top of them.

The hassle is that I have to take the top brooder off and set it on the floor to clean it and change out waters and feeders.

Those little buggers can fly now and one has flown off...but I caught it.

I thought the big girls would be mean to the little ones but so far no...just out of curiosity I put two of them in after I cleaned it this morning and they just ran to the food and eyed the chicks but didn't go near them. Not so the chicks: they ran up and pecked the big girls' butts!

 

[ThePolishPrincess]

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Hah! How's that for logic? Every roo I've ever had was the sweatest little chick. In fact, they were much more social than my hens as chicks! They were the ones who would run up to me and climb me like I was Mt. Haley, playing 'King of the Human.' I miss those days.

I've only had one roo who loved people, he was my favorite little guy. Of course, fate is cruel and he died from an illness in December. The first one to go, and one of the best little guys, to say the least. I still miss him loads. I truely wish it was ANY of my other boys.

 

[WildBurroShirts.com]

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OMG that was your pic on the homepage last week? They are sooo beautiful!




But yeah...there's a little 'tude there, for sure.

I'm going out to feed now. With a water pistol. It's a dragon's head where the eyes light up (red) and it makes a hissing sound...the water shoots out the base of the forked tongue.

I'm gonna chase that little twerp and drench him if he starts dragging the girls around by their head.

It's crazy: there are 3 food containers in a 10x14 coop, plus treats, plus some scratch on top of their roosts...he's just being ignorant.

I'll send you some of my cough drops.

Nope, not on the homepage! I'm sure no one really wants to see that. Dashie is quite a monster. The Mille Fluer is a little demon, too.

Oh, wow, I need to hear how that all works out for you! I'm considering bringing out a spray bottle once the weather becomes tolerable and I know I won't be making roo-cilces...accidently, of course.

Good luck with your deed!

"Roo-sicles!!"

Yep.

(actually it's about 80 in there right now...I yank about three layers of clothing off so I can sit with them)

 

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I'm so getting one of those nets!!!

I actually looked in the fishing section of the store today but they didn't have any.

 

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Hah! How's that for logic? Every roo I've ever had was the sweatest little chick. In fact, they were much more social than my hens as chicks! They were the ones who would run up to me and climb me like I was Mt. Haley, playing 'King of the Human.' I miss those days.

I've only had one roo who loved people, he was my favorite little guy. Of course, fate is cruel and he died from an illness in December. The first one to go, and one of the best little guys, to say the least. I still miss him loads. I truely wish it was ANY of my other boys.

I'm sorry for your loss. If you'd told me even three months ago how some would be your 'faves' I wouldn't have really understood.

Now, I'm about to unwrap my 'first' order of chicken diapers so my favorite can come in and watch HBO at night...

I wonder if they are the first ones out and about because it's dna, like, they're already patrolling the yard and climbing you to check for danger?

Two of the penguins are like that. (I hope they're not male!!!)

 

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But what HAS to be a roo (named Coburn, after the John Wayne movie) has started being beyond obnoxious: he not only pecks heads and eyes but hangs on by his beak to their heads as they try and run screaming off!

He's only two months old...if he's this horrid so young, what's he gonna be like when puberty hits???

What you have described up there ^^^^ (hanging on by his beak) is his first clumsey attempts at mating. The pullets are screaming and trying to get away because they're not ready for it.
He may actually settle down once he gets his raging hormones under control or he may not.​

 

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What you have described up there ^^^^ (hanging on by his beak) is his first clumsey attempts at mating. The pullets are screaming and trying to get away because they're not ready for it.
He may actually settle down once he gets his raging hormones under control or he may not.

Ohhhh, you're scaring me!!!!

Roosters hang onto the hen by the eyelid/face and yank their head back and forth??? It sounds pretty S&M to me....

Got an BBQ sauce?

 

[ThePolishPrincess]

Kat, you're so lucky! It has been around 45 here for the last two days but, once again, the cold is slowly seeping back.

I'm sick of this already. The chooks are too! They're happy to see the ground.

Thank you for the sorrys. He was such a sweet little guy, like a roo you couldn't believe. Wonderful with the hens and loved to give cuddles. He was ill with a Resperitory infection and the medication just wasn't doing anything. Stupidly, I left a feeding cup in with his cage and I found him dead the next morning with his head jammed in the cup. It's wierd how I'm able to talk with so much hate for these boys, yet maybe this one roo could have turned out the same way. Individuality? Maybe. I'd like to think I was a good mom to everyone and treated them all the same. The truth is that they all have minds of their own and I can't help but admit that I DID pic favorites.

There, I said it.

Oh, diapers? Wow! If the birds were allowed in the house, I'd go for them right away! The most domestic things my chickens have are saddles, and only one is occupying them right now. That sounds grand! I hope you and your chooks enjoy! I'm so jealous of that! You wouldn't believe how badly I'd like a Polish on my lap right now.

Although I'm sure she's happier sleeping.

The roos I were refuring to became very mean. They were all packing peanuts, as we soon after figured out. They worked like a pack-hunting down the girls and chasing them down to mate with them. I'd watch from my window as they would split into a formation and chase one girl at a time until she got caught under a fence or branch. They, one at a time, they would mount her until they were all done! Having said that, they were out the door right away! I've never culled a bird in my life. (Not counting my little rooster from before. I wouldn't even consider that humane. I wish I was more careful then.)

You'll love the 'lorpies. We have a mix and she has so much personality! Have fun!