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[tnspursfan09]

Good Lord...I have a three-way crowing contest going on outside. Diego, Prince Eric and Cricket (the Bantam Menace).

 

[chickadoodles]

Good Lord...I have a three-way crowing contest going on outside. Diego, Prince Eric and Cricket (the Bantam Menace).

Don't ya love it! I have 9 rooster and they start at 2 am and keep on all day trying to out do each other.

 

[Bunnylady]

Seriously! Anyone who thinks roosters only crow at dawn doesn't know chickens!

 

[dsqard]

Wisher you may be a pusher but I am not really looking for different breeds right now. I am kind of sniffing around for some dark Brahmas (I have some hens but they are starting to get older and would like to replace them plus a roo) but thinking I am probably just going to stick with my barnyard mixes for now. My photography hobby is pulling my attention away from getting into specific breeding. Love having the chickens and turkeys but no longer really interested in breeding pens and pure breeds.

 

[tnspursfan09]

Don't ya love it! I have 9 rooster and they start at 2 am and keep on all day trying to out do each other.

Cricket has become a little so-and-so since hitting puberty. He constantly stalks the babies and tries to mate with them when he has them cornered, at 3 months they are just a bit bigger then he is. He crows right in the face of danger (alpha rooster, Diego, my WLH) and flares up his hackles at anything that moves. The two big guys ignore him for the most part, though they will "dance" at him if he gets too "cocky," but they really don't seem to mind...they are too concerned with what each other is doing. He did get his tiny butt (funny...he doesn't have a butt) whooped by one of the big girls, Rosie (RSL) when he tried to mount her. She chased him halfway across the yard. As a bantam, will he be successful in his matings? Or will things just not line up correctly?

 

[Wisher1000]

DiDi - It's better to realize that now rather than after you have invested time and money into them! Well, let me know when your interest is reconstituted.

 

[Bunnylady]

DiDi - It's better to realize that now rather than after you have invested time and money into them! Well, let me know when your interest is reconstituted.

Just add water and stir?

Sometimes seems like that, doesn't it? Good ol' chicken math.

 

[ronott1]

Cricket has become a little so-and-so since hitting puberty. He constantly stalks the babies and tries to mate with them when he has them cornered, at 3 months they are just a bit bigger then he is. He crows right in the face of danger (alpha rooster, Diego, my WLH) and flares up his hackles at anything that moves. The two big guys ignore him for the most part, though they will "dance" at him if he gets too "cocky," but they really don't seem to mind...they are too concerned with what each other is doing. He did get his tiny butt (funny...he doesn't have a butt) whooped by one of the big girls, Rosie (RSL) when he tried to mount her. She chased him halfway across the yard. As a bantam, will he be successful in his matings? Or will things just not line up correctly?

Oh yes! He may very well be successful.

It really does not take too much mating to get fertile eggs either.

 

[chickadoodles]

Seriously! Anyone who thinks roosters only crow at dawn doesn't know chickens!

Amen! I have to keep them for awhile yet. lol

 

[tnspursfan09]

Amen! I have to keep them for awhile yet. lol

That seems to be all my roosters do...follow the hens around all day crowing at each other. I am so bulking up on hens this spring. I still don't know if my 4 Buffies are boys or girls.