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Looking for a home for this guy:




He's a beardless EE, and he's a bantam. This picture is from this summer, when he was about 5 months old.



He is now our only guy, and he is good with the hens. He doesn't harass them and he is a gentleman with good roostering skills. He is calm, but unfortunately he still jumps at my daughters occasionally, which is upsetting them. He doesn't do an outright attack, more like stealth jump and then backs off. We are trying to give him a second chance, as I want a rooster here. I've told the girls to bring the flock treats, but they are really in there to pick up their favorite hens, which upsets him.

If we have to butcher him, we will do it, so I am really just looking for options here. We will simply have to keep trying to find a rooster than doesn't get upset that the girls want to spend time with the hens. If that means no boys, well, then, so be it. I think this one picked up some bad habits from the more aggressive bantam cochin that was boss before we killed all our other boys but this one. "Bandit" aka "Mr. Green Jeans" was the beta-boy.

If anyone is interested, I can get current pictures of him, including his legs and feet and current size. They do not have lice or mites, as far as I can see.
 
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Looking for a home for this guy:




He's a beardless EE, and he's a bantam. This picture is from this summer, when he was about 5 months old.



He is now our only guy, and he is good with the hens. He doesn't harass them and he is a gentleman with good roostering skills. He is calm, but unfortunately he still jumps at my daughters occasionally, which is upsetting them. He doesn't do an outright attack, more like stealth jump and then backs off. We are trying to give him a second chance, as I want a rooster here. I've told the girls to bring the flock treats, but they are really in there to pick up their favorite hens, which upsets him.

If we have to butcher him, we will do it, so I am really just looking for options here. We will simply have to keep trying to find a rooster than doesn't get upset that the girls want to spend time with the hens. If that means no boys, well, then, so be it. I think this one picked up some bad habits from the more aggressive bantam cochin that was boss before we killed all our other boys but this one. "Bandit" aka "Mr. Green Jeans" was the beta-boy.

If anyone is interested, I can get current pictures of him, including his legs and feet and current size. They do not have lice or mites, as far as I can see.
Have you tried the carry around method?
 
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Thanks! I did all-breed rescue for many years, one or two at a time. There is absolutely no better way to become very well educated in dog training!! I have done rescue for breeds in all 7 AKC groups, and a bit over 100 of them last time I counted. (Not including anything I have done for Clumbers - since we -very rarely- breed, helping Clumbers in bad situations is just paying the "invoice" really. We have only had 1 of our own puppies returned... at SEVEN YEARS OLD. WT_?!! He had his forever home less than 12 hours later which was actually before we'd even physically picked him up! We insisted on making them wait a bit so we could evaluate his temperament. We hadn't seen him in 5 years. Surrendering owner claimed a full pallet of behavior issues, not one of which we observed when he was back with us. Upon laying eyes (probably more nose) on us his puppy personality came back immediately, his mother (then 12) recognized him immediately and cleaned him from noseball to wagging butt. Since his placement he has shown ZERO instances of the claimed behavior issues, but does show some physical problems that I attribute to him being outside in a concrete-floored run far more than admitted by the surrendering owner, so his Human keeps him off concrete and on Rimadyl. Oh, and he has also taught himself to herd her sheep to their shed at night when she puts them up. A Clumber Spaniel. Herding. I know!) I stuck to purebreds rather than mixes only because I can better predict behavior of pb and I am responsible for giving the new owners honest expectations for any rescue I placed. Smooth Fox Terriers, btw, are much more awesome than I expected! Bassets are surprising trainable when you don't really realize they are supposed to be tough. Then again, almost any breed seems easy to train when compared to Clumbers!
These days it seems like people claim they are doing rescue to justify "collecting" or even hoarding. It isn't rescue if you don't have a placement plan that you are moving that dog toward every day, IMHO. Sadly, I cast a suspicious eye now on anyone I meet who claims to rescue.

Wait... this is supposed to be a Chicken forum! BAD TRACY! I know... I'll distract them with a chicken photo! That'll work!



As you can see, our Batch#1 of chicks last Spring were well-versed in synchronized dance, couples.
 
Have you tried the carry around method?
We will try that one, too, a bit more. He is otherwise stand-off-ish, so I kind of don't see the point if I have to chase him around to do it, ya know? If he would just decide whether he wants to stay in the background or keep 100% calm. It doesn't even hurt when he jumps, he's so small, but it's upsetting and even I don't like turning my back on him that much. He ignores me if I am in the coop doing work for a while. I need to decide how serious I want to be about retraining him. I suppose I should do that, as he has potential, and he is still technically a cockerel. I simply need to commit. He really is a good guy and I want to be done offing chickens for a while.
 
You will have to let me know where abouts you live. I drive I-5 five nights a week to Lakewood/Fife. So anywhere between PDX and there and we should have no problems with the eggs. I only have 2 Buff Orps and currently they are laying every day to every other day. But I definitely know they are fertile(their backs show it, one is in a saddle, and I just hatched one of their eggs under a broody 2 weeks ago)
We are in Rochester, just a sneeze south of Olympia. I work in Olympia, Spouse in Tumwater.
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We've been short on large eggs with the molting this year. We're finally up to 5-6 a day instead of 2-3, now that the young girls are starting to lay.

My DH took some silkie eggs into a guy at work as a joke. The guy thought it was funny as well because he was expecting the large/jumbo that the big girls lay and the other guys have been buying. He came up to my DH yesterday and wanted to know what the heck we were feeding the chickens because he had to hit the shells three times to get them to crack. Can tell the poor guy is used to store eggs. I'm setting him up with a dozen large eggs now that I have some.
 
Thought I'd toss in a couple photos of our newest chick additions. They should be ~2½ weeks though they have a much bigger size variance than the other 2 batches did. This will be "batch #3" though batch #2 was really just adding to batch#1 because we were getting pretty certain the majority of batch1 were turning into roos. We just bought some SS of the same age from a localish breeder and they all integrated fine. (8 SS chicks and we ended with 3 hens, one of which just fell over dead one day. No injuries, healthy-looking aside from being dead...?) We got this 6-pack at auction and spoke with the seller after. He said that the brown one is a Welsummer but the other 5 are all Black Copper Marans from the same clutch. You may notice that we have some reason to be less than certain about those other 5....



The silver/blue/lavander chick we named Billie for Billie Holiday - Lady Sings the Blues. She is very much smaller than any of the others. Maybe half the size of the largest. Hard to tell that from the overhead angle. Searching for names for the others... NNY#1 and #2 we think look like penguins... Though #2 looks like she's wearing a Lone Ranger mask, too....



Even Po is suspicious. So named b/c I mentioned to Spouse that the all deep black chick with dark brown wings looks more like a crow than a chicken. The camera flash +heatlamp make her look much more brown than IRL.

We don't actually mind whatever they all turn out to be -- we'd love to have a couple BCMs but meh. Main thing is we'd like HENS. The chick-math gods just laugh at us... batch one of 12 - ended with 3 hens, though one was killed in The Back Fence Incident. So out of 12, 2. Batch #2 of 8 - ended again with 3 hens, but 1 tipped over dead one day for no apparent reason.... so out of 8 we have 2 hens. 20: 4 currently. (We have more chickens than that, though. We bought some older hens as well.) We think we are due for a majority of hens....? Okay, can we get half at least this time??
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How about the name Ella, after Ella Fitzgerald for the "no name 4" chick? The chick with "no name 1" is most likely a cockerel, so I think your luck is running true to form on it. You could call him Fitz. As for the others, I won't bet on any of them yet. lol You should find a Dutch name for your Welsummer. I could ask my Dutch DSiL for a name if you are interested in going that route. My DD and DSiL named their Great Dane Nala, but I am sure that you could find Dutch names on online easily. The chicks are very cute.


This past year has seemed to be the year of the rooster for everyone, it seems. I don't know very many folks that have hatched out anywhere near equal numbers of roos to hens in the past year. My understanding is that sometimes there are simply more roos hatched than there are hens, and vice versa.
 
We've been short on large eggs with the molting this year. We're finally up to 5-6 a day instead of 2-3, now that the young girls are starting to lay.

My DH took some silkie eggs into a guy at work as a joke. The guy thought it was funny as well because he was expecting the large/jumbo that the big girls lay and the other guys have been buying. He came up to my DH yesterday and wanted to know what the heck we were feeding the chickens because he had to hit the shells three times to get them to crack. Can tell the poor guy is used to store eggs. I'm setting him up with a dozen large eggs now that I have some.
I had a couple of weeks when I don't think any of my girls were laying. I know that some of the girls are molting, and I didn't get the light set up as early as I could have, but in the last week or so I have been getting a lot more eggs. I am now having troubles trying to figure out what to do with all of the extra eggs. I got 4 dozen eggs last week, so I might have to give the neighbors early X-mas gifts.

I think your joking on the co-worker is very funny. I have always had too mix in my smaller eggs in with the big eggs around here. I am fairly certain that some of my Sicilian Buttercups are now laying. The Sicilian's eggs look just like the Silkies, and the banty Crevecoeur's eggs, so I am still not sure who is laying, and who isn't.

I do have a feeling that the newest EE's that I got late this summer, may be laying now. I have an equal fear that none of them are laying blue eggs. I have been trying to change my flock into mostly blue egg layers, but I seem to have a rather high number of tan eggs being laid in the coop right now.
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For anyone that is interested in hatching, I have a couple of incubators that I would be more than willing to lend out for a month at a time. I have a Hovabator, that has a fan in it, and a still air Little Giant. Just give me a PM if you are interested.
 

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