Surviving Minnesota!

[shawluvsbirds]

Those of you without roosters, DO NOT JUDGE ME!!!

It was one of those days. One of the October PC cockerels decided today was the day he became a huge bellybutton.

He has one of my legbar cockerels literally turning in circles like a moose with brain worm. Then he decided to hound the good looking PC cockerel. The worst part is the other cockerels join in. BUT this PC was the worst. He drove the other PC into a corner and just whoomped on him. I picked the other one up and set it on the top of a step ladder. The victim sat there for nearly 3 hours.

When he got down the bellybutton went at him again. These are all free range barn dwellers. I have no idea where the good looking PC went. I heard squawking and saw feathers fly.

I ran the bellybutton down. When I got him cornered he tried to bite and attack me. I almost took his head right then. BUT I relented and decided to give him some of his own medicine.

I threw him in the pen with bachelor roosters (all over a year old)..... He was the odd man out in there. He went in cocky and took on WeinerHead. Stupid move. Weinerhead is 3 I think and HUGE. Then the legbar cocks gave him chase. In about 10 minutes I stepped in to keep him from being beaten, and he actually came running to me to get him out of there.

He was last back free ranging in the barn, when Hobbles came over by him he ran. This is a good sign. He will not get many more chances to reform his behavior before he ends up on the rotisserie.

Do not judge me you non-rooster owners. I know this was the opposite of chicken cuddling, but it is better than taking his head, isn't it?

I'm a non rooster owner. . but I say good job
Any animal that attacks needs to be dealt with. . one way or another. It's either show them who is boss or soup pot the way I see it.

 

[jerryse]

Got to 87 here today . Rain coming overnight . Thunder and smell of rain but missed us so far . Did my first scantily clad chicken shut up of the season . Just shorts . Closest I get to Jammie run .

 

[MNChickMom]

Good Morning . What a beautiful sunrise today. No I didn’t take a picture a just stood and admired

 

[duluthralphie]

Good Morning . What a beautiful sunrise today. No I didn’t take a picture a just stood and admired

It was a beautiful sunrise here too...
and I bet it smelled prettier here.....*






Skunk in a trap is funnier when it is some one else's trap. I remember when I caught my first skunk. It was terrible and everyone laughed at me for a year..... BUT my brother smelled for a whole year which was funny...

He was going to walk up and hit it with a stick to kill it. He even said the famous last words " it will be fine he doesn't see me coming he is looking the other way".



I being older and wiser even at that young age walked rapidly away and upwind from him. I did feel guilty for about an hour about not warning him of the dangers of a skunk looking the other way. When Mom stopped yelling at me for "letting" him get sprayed, the guilt went right away.

 

[ejb3810]

Duluth Ralphie is now anointed the title of "Rooster Wrangler Extraordinaire".

 

[duluthralphie]

Duluth Ralphie is now anointed the title of "Rooster Wrangler Extraordinaire".

Thank you. If not for you I would not have PC's that require "wrangling" so you now have the exalted title of "Rooster Wrangler Enabler".




Speaking of PC's I have decided I need a rooster from some one else. I think my PC's are too inbred. Does anyone know someone that has a rooster of good quality around here that is not from Mike Gilbert originally?

I had three hatch last week 2 died. I had zero eggs out of 16 hatch this week, they all died around days 12-14.

 

[jerryse]

Morning .Rained overnight and more coming later today . Cooler .
Rain may help the mushrooms . Looking like a poor mushroom year .

 

[duluthralphie]

Morning .Rained overnight and more coming later today . Cooler .
Rain may help the mushrooms . Looking like a poor mushroom year .

You have not gotten any yet? I looked at the map and it looks like they should be in your area or further north now.

 

[BantyChooks]

Thank you. If not for you I would not have PC's that require "wrangling" so you now have the exalted title of "Rooster Wrangler Enabler".




Speaking of PC's I have decided I need a rooster from some one else. I think my PC's are too inbred. Does anyone know someone that has a rooster of good quality around here that is not from Mike Gilbert originally?

I had three hatch last week 2 died. I had zero eggs out of 16 hatch this week, they all died around days 12-14.

Shelly Oswald in NY has some that are just as good as Mike's or better. Not sure where she got her starting stock from but I think they've been bred enough generations out that it doesn't matter by now. She's not local, but I think Mike has sort of cornered the market here, lol.

 

[jerryse]

You have not gotten any yet? I looked at the map and it looks like they should be in your area or further north now.

None yet . Too dry . A few reports .