Venting about Roosters

[FortCluck]

Thanks, its one of my favorite vehicles. I did a bit of a restoration on it a couple of years ago. I park it for the winter now to avoid the salt and hopefully the rust. Here's a video that shows the whole truck-

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DAAAAANNNNNGGGGGG! Nice truck!

 

[JoeInPA]

DAAAAANNNNNGGGGGG! Nice truck!

Thank you, I really enjoy it.

 

[FortCluck]

Thank you, I really enjoy it.

I'm a huge Ford fan. I want a bronco some day and a mustang 5.0...

 

[JoeInPA]

I'm a huge Ford fan. I want a bronco some day and a mustang 5.0...

I'm not really brand loyal to anything but I do prefer Fords when it comes to trucks. I have a 1987 Buick Regal project car as well, it has a heavily modified Buick 350 and should be a fairly quick street/strip car.

 

[Shadrach]

however have met people who thought straight run ment just that,chickens that don't do doughnuts.

That's the funniest thing I've read for ages.
I can just picture a chicken doing doughnuts.

 

[Shadrach]

Says it all under my name.
Current official work title "Bucket Boy".
In service to, 5 roosters, probably four cockerels, 12 hens and 4 pullets.
Someone may mention I need fewer males. Nope, I just need more coops.

 

[FortCluck]

Says it all under my name.
Current official work title "Bucket Boy".
In service to, 5 roosters, probably four cockerels, 12 hens and 4 pullets.
Someone may mention I need fewer males. Nope, I just need more coops.

I like your current work title i feel like a water girl bringing the star football player's water every morning big beasts! They're truly spectacular creatures! I've become very fond of Jersey Giants ever since I got two roosters from a mix up at the hatchery. They're truly breathtaking when you see them!

 

[ChocolateMouse]

I feel you. For me it's even bothersome when someone's like "Oh I got sexed chicks/pullets/hens so a rooster didn't have to die".

How many roosters were hatched when your female chickens hatched? Where do you think they went? To a magical rooster farm in England? No! almost every hen has a rooster compatriot that has been thrown into a woodchipper, eaten by a wild animal, died of a disease young, gone to freezer camp or otherwise been removed from the equation and that's true no matter what kind of chicken you buy.
When you buy an egg hen chances are around 90% that a rooster died to make that hen possible. I get that it's just now that it's YOU that has to make the choice to get rid of it, it's tragic. But that rooster was good as gone whether you were in charge of it or not...! There's some cognitive dissonance there IMO.

If you don't want to accept that you actions cause the deaths of of animal, I strongly suggest growing the entirety of your own vegan food in the most low impact way you can. Or maybe also keep a bachelor pad of only roosters and no hens, to try to balance the books a little.

Until then, your eggs, your pets, your meat and even your grains comes at the expense of living creatures lives. That's the simple reality of life, and it sucks, but it is what it is. And when you get chickens you have to face that head on. Your hens have a direct cost, and that cost is a rooster for nearly each hen you own.
Don't even get me started on the responsibility of owning an animal capable of carrying human-life threatening diseases that can spread in such a way as to destroy whole nations food supplies...

I wish people would take the time to understand the broader systems they're participating in before they jumped into those systems. Some systems we're born into whether we like it or not, but chicken ownership is an optional one and you have the chance to learn about it before you get involved.

 

[Peepsi]

s.

I have one household that can only described as white trash, they drive noisy junk cars, their yard is filled with garbage, you've got the broken trampoline, the rusty inoperable trailers, miscellaneous tires laying around, the broken swing set, an old boat, Christmas lights up in July, yard and street filled with cigarette butts, etc, etc. They have a mangy, junkyard dog of a pit bull that would probably eat you if you got close enough, several of them have lengthy criminal records, they communicate with each other loud enough so that the people in the next county can hear them, and they are always using very 'colorful' language.

I had to quickly check your profile to see if you actually lived in the same neighborhood as myself. Your description fits our white trash neighbors EXACTLY, to every last detail. I know exactly how you feel about them.

 

[JoeInPA]

I had to quickly check your profile to see if you actually lived in the same neighborhood as myself. Your description fits our white trash neighbors EXACTLY, to every last detail. I know exactly how you feel about them.

Yeah, aren't they just wonderful? And at this point they are just intentionally obnoxious. Occasionally the one will give me the middle finger as he drives past my house. Whatever...

I mean hey, I don't claim to be the greatest neighbor either, but I at least try to take care my of property and I think I do a fairly good job of it. For the most part I think you should be able to do what you want with your property, but within reason. Especially when you live in suburbs and have neighbors you should at least try to be somewhat courteous.

On the other hand I have one neighbor who calls the police if you put your trash cans out before 4:30 on garbage night. Oooh big crime there!