Tell me why you keep Roosters...

[gimmie birdies]

all roosters have their own personalities too. I had one who wanted to be picked up and didn't run away, but it seemed like he was always saying"oh boy, oh no, she'd gunna pick me up I just know it. oh boy"

 

[Hinotori]

Anyone know the breed of the Roo in my avatar? He showed up here when I was on vacation and never left. He is a super friendly bird and great with the hens.

Looks like a barnyard mix. He's a very pretty bird. If he's a good bird, I'd keep him any which way.

 

[newbie32]

I started out wanting no roosters at all and ordered a dozen assorted pullets from my local feed store. A few months later first one then another of the 'pullets' started to crow. One of them became a problem and I gave him to a friend with a farm where he has a harem of 8 hens and I kept one of them. He is a great guy and good with the girls and my special buddy and will perch on my knee to eat from my hand and growl at any of the hens that try to invade his spot. We got five silkies and a banty this year, straight run, and the banty turned out to be a girl while every single one of the silkies is a boy. Four out of the five silky roosters are fine but one is more than a bit of a bully and right now is in the time out coop where he will stay for a while. I'll give him another chance and then he will go to a new home. Roosters for all their noise are interesting critters all told and I'm kinda glad I have them in my life.

Do the male Silkies fight? I just got 2 Silkies and they better not be males! Come to think of it-I read a lot of people complaining about getting lots of males in their Silkies. I wander if the breed is genetically dispositioned to breed more males than female...

 

[Bogtown Chick]

I am saving a baby roo from my last hatch he is 1/2 maran and 1/4 silky/EE bantam mix. here's the mom "Baby Gaga"

Oh my God, I love your baby GaGa. How cute is he?! LOL. What a mix there...but I love it!

 

[gimmie birdies]

She- her dad is the striped chick in the pic

he was ee bantam her mom was silky

 

[dgermanshepherd]

TOO CUTE!!! Love the face on GaGa!

 

[OffBeatBetty]

I have a flock of 7 (6 pullets and a roo). I had 3 silkies and they ALL ended up as roos... and since I knew I could only have a small flock with not nearly enough ladies to go around, I rehomed 2 roos and kept my favorite, Opie. It has been my dream to have silkies, so when I found out they were all roosters, I was devastated. We are not supposed to have roosters where I live, but Opie is a very mild-mannered roo who only "sings" in the morning. Because of this, I keep him down in my cellar in a dog-run with hay and roost at night. I turn on the light every morning, let him "sing" a little, and then let him out with his ladies. He is very sweet, loves to be held and will even fall asleep on my lap when I sit out on the porch. He's not rough on the girls when he mates and is very protective when they free-range. He is always finding his ladies treats to eat and is a real gentleman! I have a young son, and Opie has never shown any aggression and even allows my son to pick him up (while I supervise, of course). It's a little bit of a pain to have to separate him from the flock every evening, but since he's such a nice pet I am happy to do it. If he was a mean bird, I wouldn't be doing such a thing!

Opie with his "favorite" hen, Bernadette the cochin.

 

[newbie32]

I have a flock of 7 (6 pullets and a roo). I had 3 silkies and they ALL ended up as roos... and since I knew I could only have a small flock with not nearly enough ladies to go around, I rehomed 2 roos and kept my favorite, Opie. It has been my dream to have silkies, so when I found out they were all roosters, I was devastated. We are not supposed to have roosters where I live, but Opie is a very mild-mannered roo who only "sings" in the morning. Because of this, I keep him down in my cellar in a dog-run with hay and roost at night. I turn on the light every morning, let him "sing" a little, and then let him out with his ladies. He is very sweet, loves to be held and will even fall asleep on my lap when I sit out on the porch. He's not rough on the girls when he mates and is very protective when they free-range. He is always finding his ladies treats to eat and is a real gentleman! I have a young son, and Opie has never shown any aggression and even allows my son to pick him up (while I supervise, of course). It's a little bit of a pain to have to separate him from the flock every evening, but since he's such a nice pet I am happy to do it. If he was a mean bird, I wouldn't be doing such a thing!

Opie with his "favorite" hen, Bernadette the cochin.

SEE! That's my point! There seems to be a LOT of males in the Silkie genes. Anyways he is cute and sounds like a real good rooster!

 

[Andrstein]

A coyote just got mine. I couldn't stand the incessant crowing beginning at 4:30am every morning. Every 10 seconds he had to crow... every.10.seconds... all day every day. He was a very pretty bird though.

 

[Hinotori]

My poor Duke not only has the girls pluck his beard, the molting just stole the last of his tail feathers. I need to lock him away from the EE girls for a few weeks so he can hopefully grow in a beard. He chats at me when he sees me and begs for me to let him and his ameraucana hens out. Well he chats ALL the time. I don't think he's capable of not talking. He only crows a few times a day. Mostly in the morning when him and my other boys get into a contest with the neighbors rooster that they can just barely hear.

His ears are tuned in to the sound of the back door. As soon as I open it when he's out, he comes running to beg for a treat, calling the hens over. I opened the door earlier this year and saw this.