Utah!

[Lilwanis]

I LOVE MY ROOSTERS!!!

Your RIR looks like mine...he sits on my lap if it means he will get corn and he is good with the bigger girls. The younger ones are afraid of him. We do have hawks and owls here and he has gotten them out of harms way a few times. See, now I am talking myself out of it again...he is very pretty too...

 

[themadchicken]

Quote: Your rooster sits on your lap! Mine only comes within arms lenght if i have treats. My last rooster, my avatare, would let you hold him. I miss him but he was kind of loud. Do you have a picture of your rooster?

 

[Daloorashens]

I hear you on the not wanting to kill something that you have given a name... that's a toughy, for sure... Teach your kids to be big (put their arms out) and walk towards him if he starts coming at them, stamp their feet at him, or even yell, he's really just having a rooster stare-down with them, so if they're the bigger, badder rooster, he'll back off if they are consistent... The picking him up thing is also helpful... the biggest thing is being consistent with being the top bird, then he'll respect his boundaries more...

 

[Cynthia12]

Thank you Brandi. You are right. He is a good kid. I am going to miss his calling out..every single time he comes home from somewhere.. I'm hooome! He's done that since elementary school, not sure how it became a tradition, so to speak. I think we made a big deal out of it when he was young, so he kept doing it, then it became a habit, then he just kept doing that into his high school years. Pretty cute. We like it.

Lil....where are you again? I would love to have your silkie rooster, to love my silkie splash girl.

Is he old enough?

 

[The Chick Place]

How old is he? Is he getting better or worse or staying the same?

I got him at the end of may and he was a day old then. He doesn't do it as much as he used to but still does it. It only happens when he turns his head to the left. and then he will hskae his head to make it stop.

 

[sundancenbare]

I got him at the end of may and he was a day old then. He doesn't do it as much as he used to but still does it. It only happens when he turns his head to the left. and then he will hskae his head to make it stop.

Sounds like its something that he may grow out of. As long as his quality of life is ok I wouldn't worry about him

 

[auntie hattie]

Hi everyone sorry for not posting more about my little Silkie. My 87 year old mother came to stay for awhile. My Silkie is still hanging in there. Eating and drinking just slow moving and very swollen. I soaked her today for about 40 minutes trying to massage her and see if I could feel the egg. It was pretty rough on her. I was really hoping I could work it out but that didn't happen. I just made her very uncomfortable when seeing if I could feel it on the inside.
I gave her some more olive oil. She loves it soaked in bread.

Thanks Lisa for the encouraging words and Daloorashens for the info. She is slowly breaking our hearts. The problem with Silkies is they are just so sweet it is killing us not being able to help her. I don't know what we are going to do if she needs us to assist her in dying. My DH has already told me he can't do it. We are both attached to her. I will just have to go have our vet give her a shot. I just don't know at what point to do that.

 

[Sphinx]

Hattie, I sure hope you can get that egg out of her. Poor thing. There's just gotta be SOMETHING to be done.

 

[the-bird-man]

my feeling on roosters is there are too many good ones out there to put up with a bad one. if you can work with him then great, if not then find him another home or make use of him in a different way. i know if i could have roosters i would not put up with a mean one

 

[auntie hattie]

Sphinx- I know. I will keep trying. She has been this way for a few weeks. I don't know how long it will last. didn't you run a 5 k this weekend? Wow you amaze me with all of hiking,running and everything else you do!