I live in the city limits of a small-town USA. I have a small flock of 5 hens and one rooster. Yes, Rooster… In city limits, he is my second rooster, our first being a black australorp we got from a chick turned out to be a 19 pound jersey giant Roo. I loved him to pieces...beautiful, Beautiful bird! He was very hard on our girls and we re-homed him to a wonderful working farm.
Here's my dilemma. Last spring...from the same Feedstore we had the last rooster/breed mixup from, we purchased A set of Polish chicks for our granddaughters to raise. We got them home and noticed five toes. So, we thought "silky", as the feet feathered, I posted pictures on this forum asking for a breed check. Turns out they are Turkish white sultans. Never had better pets in all my life! And of course, they are a pair, Hen and Roo aka Mr. & Mrs. Rooster.
The neighbors to the left of me are elderly. Mr. neighbor was raised on a chicken farm and enjoys the chickens. Unfortunately he has become house ridden with Alzheimer's disease. He doesn't come out much and we don't hear from him anymore. However, mrs. neighbor, who used to be very sweet has become argumentative and combative, to say the least. So she's made it her mission in life to hate all neighborhood children and chickens and has targeted Mr. rooster. The police came to the door the other night to inform us that they have had numerous phone calls from Mrs. Neighbor over the last few months in regard to Mr. rooster. The officer said that they have been trying to put this call off for as long as the complaints have been coming in, as there are several roosters in the neighborhood. They informed us of the ordinance in the city but also shared The fact that they have always ignored the ordinance. Again, we are a small city out in the country. They told us that if we can talk to neighbor down they don't mind if we keep the rooster. The only avenue I can think of going down is playing the endangered card. A friend told me that sultan chickens are deemed "critical" on the livestock endangered species list. It's true! Did anybody know that? I didn't. Interesting no less.
Can anyone out there help me with this? What would you do? I'll tell you my concern is Mrs. rooster. He protects her because we have very big girls other than her, he has also taken one of the Jersey giant babies we hatched… Oh, I forgot to mention that, as his other love of his life. If we had to re-home him, I think it would break their hearts and his also! Yeah, I'm a sucker for these guys. Love them to The moon!
Please advise
Here's my dilemma. Last spring...from the same Feedstore we had the last rooster/breed mixup from, we purchased A set of Polish chicks for our granddaughters to raise. We got them home and noticed five toes. So, we thought "silky", as the feet feathered, I posted pictures on this forum asking for a breed check. Turns out they are Turkish white sultans. Never had better pets in all my life! And of course, they are a pair, Hen and Roo aka Mr. & Mrs. Rooster.
The neighbors to the left of me are elderly. Mr. neighbor was raised on a chicken farm and enjoys the chickens. Unfortunately he has become house ridden with Alzheimer's disease. He doesn't come out much and we don't hear from him anymore. However, mrs. neighbor, who used to be very sweet has become argumentative and combative, to say the least. So she's made it her mission in life to hate all neighborhood children and chickens and has targeted Mr. rooster. The police came to the door the other night to inform us that they have had numerous phone calls from Mrs. Neighbor over the last few months in regard to Mr. rooster. The officer said that they have been trying to put this call off for as long as the complaints have been coming in, as there are several roosters in the neighborhood. They informed us of the ordinance in the city but also shared The fact that they have always ignored the ordinance. Again, we are a small city out in the country. They told us that if we can talk to neighbor down they don't mind if we keep the rooster. The only avenue I can think of going down is playing the endangered card. A friend told me that sultan chickens are deemed "critical" on the livestock endangered species list. It's true! Did anybody know that? I didn't. Interesting no less.
Can anyone out there help me with this? What would you do? I'll tell you my concern is Mrs. rooster. He protects her because we have very big girls other than her, he has also taken one of the Jersey giant babies we hatched… Oh, I forgot to mention that, as his other love of his life. If we had to re-home him, I think it would break their hearts and his also! Yeah, I'm a sucker for these guys. Love them to The moon!
Please advise
