Speckled Sussex Cockerel in Mid-Michigan - Free to good home

[Veg87]

I have a Speckled Sussex cockerel/rooster that was born April 20th, 2015 who needs a new home. i bought 6 assorted sexed(supposed to be) chicks from mypetchicken.com and our favorite bird wound up being a male and as meuch as we'd love to keep him, the city of Saginaw where we live does not allow crowing animals and our little guy is gettng a bit louder every day (apparently my neighbors 5 constantly howling/barking beagles are allowed though).

His name is Chipmunk, he looked just like one when he was little. He is growing up into quite a handsome rooster. We hand raised him from a day old and he is still pretty friendly, although the older he is getting, the more coaxing its taking to get him come over to get pet and picked up (a handful of oats goes a long way though). He would make a good gaurd bird or breeder for someones flock, he crows and charges the pen wall if any stray cats come around, although he might not be quite big enough to take on one yet.

We would like to find him a good home while he is still younger and can bond to a new family easier. he has been around a handful of kids (ages 6-10) and seems to do well enough with them, he hasnt ever pecked or acted aggressive towards anyone, but he's been a little distressed since being seperated from the hens a few days ago (we're vegetarians so the thought of eating fertalized eggs is bothersome to us).

If anyone is interested or has any questions, please let me know on this thread or through a p.m. We'd be willing to drive a little ways to meet if need be, as i said we live in Saginaw. We don't have a spare cage to give away with him, unfortunatly we need the one we'd use to bring him in the car for the other birds

 

[Veg87]

I tried posting pictures from my phone a couple times and can't seem to get it to work. if anyone has any interest, give me your email and i'll send them to you that way

 

[Free Feather]

I just wanted to mention that fertilized eggs do not have babies in them, just "sperm". There is no baby until a hen sets the eggs for a couple days. Completely vegetarian. It is more out of the line of vegetarian thinking to separate him over eggs. I just wanted to tell you because it seems that misinformation has been spreading through the vegetarian community. I do not eat meat either.

 

[Veg87]

I just wanted to mention that fertilized eggs do not have babies in them, just "sperm". There is no baby until a hen sets the eggs for a couple days. Completely vegetarian. It is more out of the line of vegetarian thinking to separate him over eggs. I just wanted to tell you because it seems that misinformation has been spreading through the vegetarian community. I do not eat meat either.

I do appreciate you taking the time to reply. Its not so much that I personally have been misinformed by anyone (I do totally understand your logic and am aware that fertalized eggs are perfectly fine to eat if gathered in a timely fashion), its more my own way of thinking that I am taking a "potential life". I've always justified my eating of (unfertalized) eggs by telling myself that there was absolutely no chance that it could have ever become a living creature. It would eventually spoil if left for the hen to sit on, possibly causing harm to them if/when it finally cracked. Just my personal thoughts though, to each their own.

On the other hand, I do feel quite bad about seperating him, even if it is only by a thin wall of chicken wire. He has calmed down a good bit after a few days of seperation went by. About half of the hens (the half lower in the pecking order he was attempting to mount) were becoming very distressed by his advances, constantly knocing over the feeder and water, constantly wasting food, bedding, and filtered water (and my homemade apple cider vinegar). They also managed to break the new 1.5 gallon waterer I bought them 4 days after buying it in one such scuffle. I will say sinces he has been removed there has been a bit of scuffling amoungst the hens, possibly refiguring the pecking order with no rooster, possibly my marans just figured out she's bigger than everyone else and sick of being on the bottom of the order (she also received the brunt of the rooster's advances, much to her dismay). Overall, it has been much calmer.

That being said, I did just order him a no-crow collar from somewhere that allows a trial/return period if I feel the collar is ineffective or at all harmful to him. I really do hope it allows us to keep him, our immediate neighbors think he's funny (or at least their kids do, and they like to see their kids happy), its the ones a little farther that we don't know we are worried about complaining. We are planning to move outside the city/township limits next year to begin a little homstead/hobby farm where he can crow all he wants if all goes well.