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bnjrob said:
Amen. We culled some cocks we had that were just "too amorous" and tore the hens feathers up so bad. They were good looking birds and fine with people, but they were just way too rough with the mating and didn't seem to know when to stop. It was interesting though because when we butchered them, their testicles were so much larger than the testicles of the other males that we'd butchered.
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Big Balls in Cowtown
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Or maybe the ACDC song
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galanie, do you still do fermented feed? I want to start doing it, and have some "cooking". I talked to Bee about it on an IM, and I think I have it down, was just curious about your results! Or any other fermented feeders results. Also we are getting our babies in this week and next week (Yaay! 40 more chickens!) and wanted to know about feeding it to the little ones. Thanks!!
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mandaleigh1981 said:
galanie, do you still do fermented feed? I want to start doing it, and have some "cooking". I talked to Bee about it on an IM, and I think I have it down, was just curious about your results! Or any other fermented feeders results. Also we are getting our babies in this week and next week (Yaay! 40 more chickens!) and wanted to know about feeding it to the little ones. Thanks!!
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I do FF. I know you weren't asking me but my results are pretty neat. My birds have such full soft wonderful feathering on less feed. They are all over me and the bucket every time I feed. Two hens need a wing trim since they cant wait and have started flying over the gate to help me scoop it in the morning. I have some mobility issues after a severe auto accident so if it wasn't simple I couldn't do it. In Texas, it cooks pretty fast so you get off to a fast start. My feeling was I wanted to give it a try and decided to just jump in. If it didn't work I would have dumped the mess out in the middle of the chicken run and gone back to what I was doing.
 
uglychickens said:
Commercial breeders and large egg production farms have messed every thing up! Grrr I hope for mans sake, they figure out soon that nature is by design for a reason and man hasn't even scraped the surface of understanding it!!!
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There was no cost for rude rooster behavior in a forced breeding situation. In the farm yard or more natural setting, a rude rooster wouldn't get as many hens, so the solicitous behavior would be naturally selected for by the hens themselves. The rude behavior would be selected against, there would be less offspring of the rude rooster, and that trait (rude/aggressive breeding behavior) would die out. I read in one of my chicken books (THE SMALL-SCALE POULTRY FLOCK, written by Harvey Ussery) that he, the author, has found less damage to the hens since he started to select roosters for their courting behavior. These aren't my ideas.
 
Italia said:
I get upset when I see the ladies being taken against their will. My husband always laughs at me about this and said I know you do not like this but it is nature. So hearing that the dinners and dancing has been bred out of them makes me very sad. It makes me value my courting roos even more. I might have to start cracking down on the offenders.lol
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Dr. Temple Grandin referred to them as "rapist roosters."

Here's a link to an excerpt from one of her books:
http://www.grandin.com/inc/animals.make.us.human.ch7.html

It is a very interesting read.

Dr. Temple Grandin is a professor at I think it is Colorado State. She's famous for designing processing plants and making the whole thing humane. She's an interesting individual, being diagnosed with autism. I've learned a lot about slaughter from reading her articles.
 
jajeanpierre said:
Dr. Temple Grandin referred to them as "rapist roosters."

Here's a link to an excerpt from one of her books:
http://www.grandin.com/inc/animals.make.us.human.ch7.html

It is a very interesting read.

Dr. Temple Grandin is a professor at I think it is Colorado State. She's famous for designing processing plants and making the whole thing humane. She's an interesting individual, being diagnosed with autism. I've learned a lot about slaughter from reading her articles.
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I saw the movie about her and it was indeed interesting.
 

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