The Old Folks Home

[Highcotton]

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The loudest thing in my coop is the Rosecomb Bantam rooster. He constantly crows as loud as possible. Those Australorp roosters just can't hold a light to him although they are 3 or 4 times his size,

 

[Highcotton]

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Thanks that is interesting even though I am a semi rural area and I like to hear the crowing.

 

[ozexpat]

Quote: i love the crows of roosters in the Philippines. A much more pleasant sound than Karaoke

 

[Bunnylady]

i love the crows of roosters in the Philippines. A much more pleasant sound than Karaoke

You only think that because you've never heard me sing.

 

[ronott1]

<<opens squeaky door....pushes away cobwebs and crickets chirping.........<<<<<<

Hellooooo?! anybody in here?

Good Morning to you!

Are you sure the Squeaky noise did not come from my joint today?

 

[ozexpat]

You only think that because you've never heard me sing.

but I have

I have a recoding that will go gold.

then i will leak the original and become rich.

lol

seriously, we have a Karaoke Bar up the way and no ordinance for noise.

Wall airconditioner white noise dwons it out at bed time buy everynow and then I feel like buying the few decent singers some songs just to keep the bad ones off/

 

[Arielle]

Quote: I too find the sound pleasant . . .more than I thought I would. Just not at 3 am thoughor now its 4 am-- when the light goes on for the hen house. THe boys all talk to each other coop to coop. RIght now they are running the roll call . . . .

 

[tnspursfan09]

My babies are growing up so fast!

Cricket, the mystery chick DH brought home as a companion for Dottie. 8 or 9 weeks?


Dottie at almost 7 weeks

 

[gryeyes]

There are now fifteen cockerels and only nine pullets at Thistle Dew Ranch. Last night I took six cockerels - housed with HHandbasket's flock for the past three or four months - and two pullets from the Homestead to tuck into the coop in the dead of night. There are four more definite pullet candidates but they roost in the rafters or the apple tree. Another would have been Hooligal, one of Punkin's house-hatched & raised brood, however, she went broody literally on the eve of transport, after laying for less than two weeks. Then she decided she wanted to be a teen-aged mother. Even though I had been taking eggs from underneath her, she stayed clamped down over nothing! So, I relented and gave her three flock eggs. She achieved her goal 3 days ago, hatching two chicks, so she won't have to move to the Ranch until her babies are raised. There are two of the Easter Hatch pullets I just like seeing around the house here, so I am not gonna move them. Maybe. I dunno. It's certainly not fair to move any of the Grand Dame hens merely to even out the rooster/hen ratio at the Ranch.

 

[insanity]

gryeyes,

Just asking why are you keeping so many roos? Do you run a rooster rescue or just couldn't part with them?? There have been a couple I wish I could have kept around but couldn't.

Darn neighbors.