Stella's Social Club

[lawatt]

they're gorgeous! i particularly like that blueish-colored boy...

 

[gryeyes]

Mary, I always delay my responses to your creations because I get so darned envious. It takes a while to simply appreciate your work without comparison to my disorganized decorating style, lack of culinary skill, and poultry without pedigrees.

Spectacular style. I love it!

 

[drumstick diva]

I like the blue rooster also

 

[ilovemysilkie]

Hello Can I Join?

 

[speckledhen]

Blue chickens

Sadly, Isaac killed his son, Indy yesterday, or at least, that is what appears to have happened. Just hit him from behind with great force and broke his neck or back, hard to tell, but there was no fight, no blood. I'd seen the animosity and previous sneak attacks, but he got in one lucky hit yesterday. Great b'day gift for me, Ike, gee, thanks. You can read about it here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...protectors-lost-one-today-11-18#post_12353050

Isaac has always hated the BR hens for some unknown reason, even sometimes chasing them away from the feeder and only begrudgingly mating them. Indy is the only one of his sons that looked like a pure BR rooster and he was surpassing Isaac in size. He was spectacular in temperament, even thwarting a fox attack with one of his brothers I just rehomed a few days ago. Sigh. I am so bummed. I really, really liked Indy. He was my chosen new flock leader, the new main rooster for when Isaac had passed on. I have four other sons of Isaac, but none that are as large or impressive as Indy was.

 

[crazyhen]

Sooo very sorry about your roo. I know for you it must be very hard.

gloria Jean

 

[speckledhen]

Thank you, GJ. Indy also had the best crow, the deepest. Guess we'll have to see how Ike's Delaware colored sons, Gabriel and Scout, do in the main flock in a few weeks. They are turning 13 weeks old this Thursday and are doing fine living with the older hens, but I don't want them breeding those old arthritic ladies. Even Caroline, who hates all newcomers, seems to like them both.

 

[lawatt]

Thank you, GJ. Indy also had the best crow, the deepest. Guess we'll have to see how Ike's Delaware colored sons, Gabriel and Scout, do in the main flock in a few weeks. They are turning 13 weeks old this Thursday and are doing fine living with the older hens, but I don't want them breeding those old arthritic ladies. Even Caroline, who hates all newcomers, seems to like them both.

so sorry about your rooster! i have one less rooster also, but for a happier reason -- managed to find a new home for my SFH rooster, as i've decided to focus on other breeds -- a young couple who's just starting out their flock took him & two of his girlfriends yesterday evening. slimming my own flock down a bit & getting it more organized!

 

[speckledhen]

Good for you, Laura! I did finally manage to rehome one just days before Indy's loss, so I'm down two of the four sons of Ike who were already in the main flock. That makes room for Gabe and Scout to move in, hopefully, with better results. Isaac has always been very territorial, which is why I've rehomed males in the past when they started breeding the hens, but I finally decided he'd have to suck it up and let them in because he's about to turn 5 years old and his breathing capacity has been greatly diminished over the last couple of years, ever since he had a fungal lung infection. I could lose him at any time, but of course, he doesn't know that.

 

[lawatt]

this is my first time managing roosters/cockerels, but now that Max is off to a new home, i can move my big boy Jack (birchen marans) into the largest pen with my older hens, plus his birchen pullet, and then focus the other two pens with isbars in one (Blue the isbar boy has been sharing the pen with Jack, and they get along great, but Jack is much bigger, despite being 2 weeks younger, and clearly dominant) and silver campines in the other (if i can get them all to get along, they're still bickering amongst themselves!). pleased to getting things more organized!