Tell me why you keep Roosters...

[gimmie birdies]

a friend gave me this great blue roo for my blue hens. it is an Isbar.

 

[Cutepal]

Roosters protect hens and will do anything to keep them alive, they can get aggressive sometimes to predators and humans. Roosters can have 10 hens as their wives. Don't keep all of your cockerels, they will fight when they get older to see who will take role of the hens.

 

[gimmie birdies]

I currently have one rooster, a friend may need him for breeding since he is SFH, I have my eye on some other roosters, though.

 

[Adeth Chicken]

Well, the six silkies we got as chick's, all turned out to be roosters.. We had already gotten attached to them, and feel as though the deserve to live jjust as much as any other, they can't help the fact they can't lay eggs.. We eventually had to separate them in two groups of three, due to fighting. But the free range rooster have a roost outside, and they all get along just fine, they fight with the other roosters occasionally through the coop.. But easy to break up.. We also got a Bantam rooster with our Bantams, and he, while a loudmouth-his name, we just can't get rid of em over them being boys..

 

[FrizzlesRule]

i have five roos and love them all. My Smooth frizzle Cochin doesn't like the Polish, but not much fighting. They are all pets and are good to have around if you want to hatch chicks.

 

[gimmie birdies]

My smooth Frizzle cochin bantam roo and my NN bantam had a baby. The baby is not frizzle-y or NN

pretty good reason. (chin not NN-y just damp from eating yolk.)

 

[gimmie birdies]

just got this roo to breed with my hens. he was from a diff batch of eggs I gave to a friend so I knew the parents.
this is the dad a blue splash frizzle with a green egg gene.ugly bird pretty babies.



this is the mom a blue splash hen. purple-y egg gene


this is the sister


the sister lays gray eggs. I was hoping for more.

 

[gimmie birdies]

just got this roo too.

 

[gimmie birdies]

I returned the white one it was not a good fit, this australorp I got from a friend in nice.We have chipmunks here because my cat is old, this roo went on chipmunk patrol because he didn't like them.

 

[Titanpaul726]

My roo king George is so lovely to his girls, he takes the food from my hand and holds it in his beak till one of the girls take it. Rarely will he eat any of the treats. I sing Georgey porgey puddin in a pie kissed the girls and made them cry, to him

Wow! What breed are these chickens?