The Rooster Thread!

[alexa009]

What breed of rooster is Mr harvey? It looks familiar but I can't figure it out.

 

[TheTwoRoos]

I usually do not see roosters being bully,unless their young rowdy teenagers getting a lesson.

 

[sewchick]

This is fird the bird. It was Fred but the husband likes the name Fird so Fird the bird it is. Fird is a funny bird. He walks a little bowlegged. He is not agressive at all but that is probably because he lost his woman. She got away from me and never came back. Maybe she didn't like Fird. He is quite loud and active. We only have Fird now. No hens. Fird will eat out of my had but keeps and evil eye on me. It's like he wants to cast a spell or something. I go out each day and give him a call and he comes a running with those bowlegs. Looks like Yosemite Sam. Then he kind of does a side step when he gets close. He's an odd bird to be sure.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Stunning!

But I have to ask ... why so many roost? Breeding stock? Meat birds? Madness? Astounding! I wanna come visit your rooster farm!

Thanks! It's mostly madness. But...breeding stock is the idea behind it.
I "may" get slightly carried away...they're all so huggable!

(According to my husband...it's to annoy him)

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Nice roosters!

Thank you.

Yes, they are all amazingly beautiful! Not to mention handsome

If that's at me...thank you.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

What breed of rooster is Mr harvey? It looks familiar but I can't figure it out.

Mr. Harvey's a hybrid olive egger. The breeder from whom I purchased the hatching eggs from has several varieties that could make him. I'm thinking he's part Maran...possibly part Ameraucana or black isbar? He didn't end up looking like the pic posted on the site...which looked like a black isbar. He's been a total sweetheart from day one.

I think these two young roosters are from him so I'm impressed. The one with the red arrow I'm keeping for myself. He got missed when I moved the chicks and he spent a couple days in the box with no feed, water or heat. Super tough guy!

 

[alexa009]

Mr. Harvey's a hybrid olive egger. The breeder from whom I purchased the hatching eggs from has several varieties that could make him. I'm thinking he's part Maran...possibly part Ameraucana or black isbar? He didn't end up looking like the pic posted on the site...which looked like a black isbar. He's been a total sweetheart from day one.

I think these two young roosters are from him so I'm impressed. The one with the red arrow I'm keeping for myself. He got missed when I moved the chicks and he spent a couple days in the box with no feed, water or heat. Super tough guy!
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That is probably why he is so BEAUTIFUL!

 

[alexa009]

Thank you Wickedchicken6!

 

[alexa009]

A Lot!

 

[Mace Gill]

How the heck did this thread balloon up to nearly 200 comments so fast???

On a more serious note ... wen we had our first problematic rooster (our rooster is mean and aggressive, but a great leader to the girls ... this second rooster was not. Very difficult to go into all the gritty details) ...

Never the less, we AGONIZED over the thought of dispatching him and tried everything to adopt him out. Only folks willing would've put him on the dinner table, and we thought we owed it to him that if this was to be his fate, we'd do it ourselves.

We kept his wishbone as a tribute to him and a reminder to us of his sacrifice that also nourished the family ... a sacred circle. Instead of breaking the wishbone ... I tied it in a knot as a symbol of this eternal circle.