The Rooster I Couldn't Kill

[speckledhen]

I've been hatching our own chicks and butchering the extra roosters for meat. For the last 2 months, a Maran barnyard cross, that I've named Kurt Russell, has been the alpha rooster. I've been putting off butchering him because I like him. He's 23 weeks now. I put him in the shed yesterday with water. I went to get him today, and picked him up. He struggled so much more than the others when I went to get them. The desire to live-the fight in him was incredible. I decided he's just too healthy, too strong, too well-formed, too beautiful, and too well-behaved to kill. I never had intentions of keeping a mutt over my flock, because I intended to breed. I'm curious if anybody else has mutt roosters over their flocks that they never intended to keep?


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Well, good for you! Sometimes, you just have to shift gears when you find a jewel like that. He's handsome and a good tempered rooster is a treasure in my opinion. I've kept birds I never intended to keep, certainly. Have a few now, in fact, cockerels I can't let go of, though I really don't need them. Trying to be strong and rehome just one of them, but the rest will probably stay. Their dad, my 5 yr old Delaware rooster, is a big old marshmallow, and he passes on his easygoing nature to his sons. That's great except it makes me want to keep them all!

By the way, love the name, too. Kurt Russell and Novaman has Rod Stewart. My keepers are Indiana Jones (Indy), Rex (named for his heroic late Uncle), Deacon Jones, Gabriel and Scout. The one I'm rehoming is Ira, for his dad, Isaac and mother, Ida.

 

[NovaAman]

I have had a Billy Idol, Sting, David House, Rod Stewart... Now these guys all got their names because as chicks, they all had messed up do's being as they were all mixed with either 1/2 to 1/4 silkie. Leads to a lot of spiking. So do faverolle crosses on occassion. Lol. I also have or had birds named more... Normal names. Roger, Fritz the jerk, Oscar the Great, Mr Ed, Big Boy, Mr. Fluffers, Big Head, Black Butt... Silkie buff cockerel with an all black tail... Oh, and Mark, Ray, red Devil, Strutter... I hope to have a Morelli and a Ranger some day too... Maybe. Diesel also. Lol

 

[speckledhen]

I had a Ranger! And Buster out in Idaho named one of Suede's sons Diesel. Gabriel is redeeming the name from a long ago BR cockerel who was never right in the head from the start and ended up losing his when he became aggressive, not the usual thing that comes out of my flock. This Gabriel is a Delaware x BR doll. I have to name them--it's easier than saying, "that rooster with the red feather on his left right back and the black streak on his beak". Just makes things easier. And they do learn their names like any dog does.

 

[NovaAman]

They do! When ever I have to leave them locked up in the run, Florus will hang in the coop so he doesn't get in Rod Stewarts way... I call him when it is safe to come out, and he'll come running out of that coop, down the ramp and off like a shot. LOL Rod Stewart is the head roo, and HE is not that fond of Florus. He is smaller than Florus, but he's got bigger cahones...

 

[gryeyes]

I had a rooster named Gregory Peck for a while. The rest have had fairly normal names, like Carl. That's a pretty normal name for a rooster, right? He's the dominant rooster and has been since I started with chickens 4 years ago. Other rooster names in my flock since then: Domino, Sebastian, Brewster The Rooster, Hitchcock, Charlie, Nugget, Albert, brothers Alex and George, Maximilian, Bernard (Sebastian's dad)....

 

[NovaAman]

Yes... Carl is a pretty normal name for a rooster. LOL

 

[froggiesheins]

They do! When ever I have to leave them locked up in the run, Florus will hang in the coop so he doesn't get in Rod Stewarts way... I call him when it is safe to come out, and he'll come running out of that coop, down the ramp and off like a shot. LOL Rod Stewart is the head roo, and HE is not that fond of Florus. He is smaller than Florus, but he's got bigger cahones...

"cahones"....TOO FUNNY!

 

[speckledhen]

Well, I think the Kurt Russell who is the subject of this thread is a great looking rooster and I'm glad you saved him. Who could kill hunky Kurt Russell??

My two named D'Anver males are Aubrey, for the breeder who sent me the eggs he came from, Aubrey Webb. One of his hens is Aimee, after Aubrey's wife. He's a typical standoffish D'Anver, sometimes aggressive, though he has a soft on the tongue name. And his son is Spike. Unlike his name, Spike is super sweet, very UN-D'Anver-like. He flies to my arm to eat scratch from my hand. Good boy, regardless of his tough name.

 

[babyfoot]

I had a rooster named Gregory Peck for a while. The rest have had fairly normal names, like Carl. That's a pretty normal name for a rooster, right? He's the dominant rooster and has been since I started with chickens 4 years ago. Other rooster names in my flock since then: Domino, Sebastian, Brewster The Rooster, Hitchcock, Charlie, Nugget, Albert, brothers Alex and George, Maximilian, Bernard (Sebastian's dad)....

I named both our main roosters Greek names. Spartacus and Phoenix. Sadly Phoenix fought Spartacus and he didn't make it. My new rooster is a mix and he loved pecking buttons on my clothing so obviously he got called Buttons. I had no intentions of keeping him, he was meant for the pot just like Happy Feet was (due to his dance moves for the ladies) but he was soooo handsome and cuddly I kept him

 

[speckledhen]

It's funny how this thread turned into a cool names thread, lol. But, hey, the original poster started it!