Texas

[RoosterCogburn7]

My precious granddaughter helped me feed the chickens.Tried to upload the video, but no luck.

I have started using little giant feeders. They hold about 25 pounds of feed, and you flip the lid to check it everyone once and awhile. I may pen the houses the majority of the laying hens that provide us eggs for eating, I have two. In the large barn building I have my young pullets that aren't ready to lay yet, I have two. The roosters are starting to try to crow, they sounds like croaky elephants in the morning. They are my breeding birds. Soon after the new coop is built, and the PBR rooster butchered, all of my breeding birds will be separated. I am keeping two roosters per flock of hens. That means, soon, I will have to make a decision what to do with three Black Copper Roosters. Either sell them or eat them. I am keeping two of those roosters back for the 8 hens. I figured two roosters can share a flock, and it would insure fertility. The only question is my Blue and Splash Americanas. I still can't figure out gender because they are pea combs. I guess, as they get older, it will get easier to tell. So, I have a spare little giant and a brite tap waterer that I will be putting in the Chocolate/Mottled Orpington Coop I am building. I have two chocolate roosters, and one chocolate hen at the moment, and thanks to Papabrooder, 7 more girls in my big box brooder in the house. I am playing beat the clock until they are two big for it. But, hopefully this weekend, I will manage to finish up all the framing. I sank the 4x8 10 foot treated posts at 3 feet at the front, and about four feet in the back. That was the hardest part, the soil is sand, so it was a matter of turning it to mud to let it set, and post hole digging it out again. 2x6x8's for the bottom, and the same for the top. Those are a bugger bear to lift and drill with decking screws at the same time. I had to screw in one side, while my wife balanced the other. Then relieve her so she could have the middle, and I could put decking screws in the other side. 2x6x8's at that height are heavy pain, literally. But, I have to have something to attach the 2x4's for the roof. Once the header is on, I am attaching lumber every four feet for the barn siding, and posts for the door. A lot of painting needs to happen. Everything is going to be white except for the barn siding which my wife wants a deep blue. I need to find some pretty cursive stenciling, so I can put "Carol's Coop" on the middle door beam when I build it. Carol was my mother-in-law, so it is named in her honor. That is why the deep blue siding to match what her eyes were. That and it was her favorite color. Ironic that there will be Chocolate Orpingtons living inside, but that kind of makes sense as she had adopted into the family in Minnesota no-less my sister-in-laws live in black boyfriend whom they had a child out of wedlock. I am not being racist about it. I could care less what someone's color is. I care more about a man's character. So, my only gripe with him is he should marry her and make it right.

 

[RoosterCogburn7]

Well, we might be down one Chocolate Orpington Rooster, it spurred the kids, and now it walks funny.

 

[hensfortherapy]

Well, we might be down one Chocolate Orpington Rooster, it spurred the kids, and now it walks funny.

I think I am glad I don't feel the need for roosters.

Here's a pic of my granddaughter.

 

[RoosterCogburn7]

I think I am glad I don't feel the need for roosters.
Here's a pic of my granddaughter.

I will never abide a mean gene in rooster. He was going to be one of the breeder roosters. He is no longer. His calmer, more laid back brother will be. I am going to breed quality, and meanness will not be passed on. We have an EE Rooster my daughter can snatch up by the tail and hold like a baby doll (Lucky). He has made some hens and some pretty roosters. The PBR rooster mix he made is going to be dinner. Not a PBR rooster fan, even if it has a tiny bit of EE showing. The pure breeds I am going to be breeding will be based on size, color, and definitely disposition. So, there will be one Chocolate Orpington Roo to 8 hens, both Chocolate and mottled. I am not going to pass on a mean gene to someone else.

 

[RoosterCogburn7]

Well, Olivia made it home just fine, scoped out the yard, sniffed the Tom cat who is wary. She has her kennel on the porch, water, food, some flee, tick, and mite medicine to be administered, a rope toy, and a ball. I was busy at Tractor Supply today. The kids are playing with her when she wanders about.

 

[reindeermama]

I know this is going to sound bad, but Uncle Billy had a rooster. He was a mean son of a gun. He spurred Mildred one day while she was hanging out laundry. She didn't even seen him coming. He spurred her right in the bottom. We all knew to watch out for Uncle Billy's rooster. One day he snuck up on Jerry coming into my home. There was a shovel on the front porch. (Been digging something up), and Jerry picked up that shovel and whomped that rooster right on the head. I was like " oh my god, you killed Uncle Billy's rooster...he is going to kill you." (Jerry is an old friend) The rooster was laying on the ground out cold. He came round and then took off to the coop. It's funny, that rooster never strayed out of Uncle Billy's yard again. This was a neighborhood out in the country and no one had fences around their property and the rooster came in everyone's yard and terrorized us all, but we never did anything because everyone knew Uncle Billy loved that rooster. Now just to let you know I am not telling anyone to hit a rooster, it is just that we still laugh about that to this day. Jerry just reacted and didn't think and after he did it he went pale. I think we were both in shock. Lol.

 

[btguy]

I know this is going to sound bad, but Uncle Billy had a rooster.  He was a mean son of a gun.  He spurred Mildred one day while she was hanging out laundry.  She didn't even seen him coming.  He spurred her right in the bottom.  We all knew to watch out for Uncle Billy's rooster.  One day he snuck up on Jerry coming into my home.  There was a shovel on the front porch. (Been digging something up), and Jerry picked up that shovel and whomped that rooster right on the head.  I was like " oh my god, you killed Uncle Billy's rooster...he is going to kill you." (Jerry is an old friend) The rooster was laying on the ground out cold.  He came round and then took off to the coop.  It's funny, that rooster never strayed out of Uncle Billy's yard again.  This was a neighborhood out in the country and no one had fences around their property and the rooster came in everyone's yard and terrorized us all, but we never did anything because everyone knew Uncle Billy loved that rooster.  Now just to let you know I am not telling anyone to hit a rooster, it is just that we still laugh about that to this day.  Jerry just reacted and didn't think and after he did it he went pale.  I think we were both in shock. Lol.

Oh I understand. My uncle gave me some hatching eggs when I was about 6 or 7. He called them game chickens... Southern for professional fighting chickens that no one had a use for because of the chicken fighting laws. Mean doesn't begin to cover those birds. We still laugh over one chasing my dad to his workshop where he grabbed a 2x4 and started chasing it. We finally butchered the lot of those mean @:$(

 

[reindeermama]

Oh I understand. My uncle gave me some hatching eggs when I was about 6 or 7. He called them game chickens... Southern for professional fighting chickens that no one had a use for because of the chicken fighting laws. Mean doesn't begin to cover those birds. We still laugh over one chasing my dad to his workshop where he grabbed a 2x4 and started chasing it. We finally butchered the lot of those mean @:$

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Oh that is one of the pictures you can just see in your mind. I can't stop laughing, but with a mean rooster sometimes you have to even the score.

 

[RoosterCogburn7]

I know this is going to sound bad, but Uncle Billy had a rooster. He was a mean son of a gun. He spurred Mildred one day while she was hanging out laundry. She didn't even seen him coming. He spurred her right in the bottom. We all knew to watch out for Uncle Billy's rooster. One day he snuck up on Jerry coming into my home. There was a shovel on the front porch. (Been digging something up), and Jerry picked up that shovel and whomped that rooster right on the head. I was like " oh my god, you killed Uncle Billy's rooster...he is going to kill you." (Jerry is an old friend) The rooster was laying on the ground out cold. He came round and then took off to the coop. It's funny, that rooster never strayed out of Uncle Billy's yard again. This was a neighborhood out in the country and no one had fences around their property and the rooster came in everyone's yard and terrorized us all, but we never did anything because everyone knew Uncle Billy loved that rooster. Now just to let you know I am not telling anyone to hit a rooster, it is just that we still laugh about that to this day. Jerry just reacted and didn't think and after he did it he went pale. I think we were both in shock. Lol.

sounds like something I would do. But, in my opinion a Rooster that is willing to attack a human doesn't need to be the gene pool.

 

[btguy]

sounds like something I would do.  But, in my opinion a Rooster that is willing to attack a  human doesn't need to be the gene pool.

I have a buckeye too who is normally pretty mellow but annoy a hen and its on. When I had to treat the flock for lice I left the coop with bloody arms. As soon as the ladies are left alone he is back to being mellow. With the predators around here I actually really like his attitude. I'll put up with the occasional nip in exchange for getting an injured predator rather than a dead chicken.