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Here in South Austin, center of the universe for eccentric urban chickenkeeping! Other cities have garden tours for a neighborhood to show off their gorgeous yards. Here we have COOP TOURS!
Alas I have a need all too common.... a need for a good home for a couple of roosters. Our recent hatch of 5 yielded 4 boys. Beautiful, healthy Easter Egger-mix iridescent black and warm goldenbrown accent feathers. The littlest onehatched in my hands and imprinted on me, so we ended up raising them in 2 batches: one with the mama chicken, 2 boys and the sole girl Tidbit, and the other with me, mostly sleeping in a biggish cage by my bed. So, what we have now is two sets of brothers brooded together who won't fight with their broodmate, but when I allow all of them to pen together, the bigger 2 give Littlest Red Rooster horrid peckings until I separate them. He makes this sad little creeling noise the minute he SEES the big pen-- mamamamamamama don't throw me in there!
I know the most common fate for excess male chickens. If I cannot find homes that want a Harem Daddy, the Big Brothers can go someplace that will care for them well right up until the sudden end. But if there is ANY possibility of a spot where Little Red Rooster and his *gorgeous* bigger brother can go and enjoy being defender of a flock of actual hens, that would be alI pray for this Christmas. LittleRed is the typical reddish brown of an Easter Egger, with some iridescent black around his neck, while his brother is gorgeous iridescent black with a mirroring collar of dark-gold-brown neck feathers. They sleep together in a coop just fine, and when they get out into a big pen they'll do a little jousting where they fluff up their necks and bounce chests, but they've never hurt each other to my knowledge. Not enough hens to go 'round! These two are fairly tame,having been close to people since hatching. The others have had less interaction, but are also OK with cooping together and don't peck to draw blood.
Maintaining two separate spaces, day and night, for Big Daddy Bird and his teenage sons is troublesome but manageable-- maintaining THREE separate spaces, safe and warm at night, spacious and comfortable by day, is running me ragged. Take a boy bird or two, please, please, either for next Easter chicken dinner, or a pair of brothers to watch your hens all day!
Email me at [email protected] if you can give a home to a boy bird or two. They can be seen over on the pictures of chicken forum, in the thread "unusual colouration", pictures six weeks old. I'm holding Little Red Rooster in one, and his eyes are all scaredy because he doesn't want me to drop him to roam free 'mongst the other juveniles, they'reall so BIG!
praying for responses although I don't usually bug the Deity over matters of merely personal urgency,
Judith
Alas I have a need all too common.... a need for a good home for a couple of roosters. Our recent hatch of 5 yielded 4 boys. Beautiful, healthy Easter Egger-mix iridescent black and warm goldenbrown accent feathers. The littlest onehatched in my hands and imprinted on me, so we ended up raising them in 2 batches: one with the mama chicken, 2 boys and the sole girl Tidbit, and the other with me, mostly sleeping in a biggish cage by my bed. So, what we have now is two sets of brothers brooded together who won't fight with their broodmate, but when I allow all of them to pen together, the bigger 2 give Littlest Red Rooster horrid peckings until I separate them. He makes this sad little creeling noise the minute he SEES the big pen-- mamamamamamama don't throw me in there!
I know the most common fate for excess male chickens. If I cannot find homes that want a Harem Daddy, the Big Brothers can go someplace that will care for them well right up until the sudden end. But if there is ANY possibility of a spot where Little Red Rooster and his *gorgeous* bigger brother can go and enjoy being defender of a flock of actual hens, that would be alI pray for this Christmas. LittleRed is the typical reddish brown of an Easter Egger, with some iridescent black around his neck, while his brother is gorgeous iridescent black with a mirroring collar of dark-gold-brown neck feathers. They sleep together in a coop just fine, and when they get out into a big pen they'll do a little jousting where they fluff up their necks and bounce chests, but they've never hurt each other to my knowledge. Not enough hens to go 'round! These two are fairly tame,having been close to people since hatching. The others have had less interaction, but are also OK with cooping together and don't peck to draw blood.
Maintaining two separate spaces, day and night, for Big Daddy Bird and his teenage sons is troublesome but manageable-- maintaining THREE separate spaces, safe and warm at night, spacious and comfortable by day, is running me ragged. Take a boy bird or two, please, please, either for next Easter chicken dinner, or a pair of brothers to watch your hens all day!
Email me at [email protected] if you can give a home to a boy bird or two. They can be seen over on the pictures of chicken forum, in the thread "unusual colouration", pictures six weeks old. I'm holding Little Red Rooster in one, and his eyes are all scaredy because he doesn't want me to drop him to roam free 'mongst the other juveniles, they'reall so BIG!
praying for responses although I don't usually bug the Deity over matters of merely personal urgency,
Judith
