What to do with an extra roo?

[44Wolves]

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No he "is" not food. He is a Pet.

 

[gritsar]

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You're welcome and

In my first order of chicks I ended up with three extra roosters. I told everyone I met that I had young roosters to give away, even the cashier at the grocery store. I put up posters at the local library and on the bulletin board at the post office. I was beginning to give up hope, then a lady finally called. Turns out she is someone my DH has known his whole life. She had somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 hens, wanted to get into hatching, but didn't have a single roo. Now she has three happy roos.

Good luck to you!

 

[Barry Natchitoches]

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I tried keeping a second roo alone, since I didn't have two chicken coops.


It was absolute torture for him to be alone. He had free ranging privileges -- something my other chickens did not have -- but that didn't matter. He was so lonely he spent every minute at the fence to the chicken yard, trying desperately to get in, or to interact with the other birds. And as far as sexual needs -- I would watch him rub "himself" on the ground to relieve pressure.


And even though we had a little chicken tractor for him to sleep in, he wouldn't sleep in it. He slept under the vent to the chicken coop, because it was the closest he could get to the other birds at night.


It hurt me and my wife so much to see him hurting like that, that we finally relented and bought him two hens of his own.


That satisfied him, and he became a happy roo again.

 

[peacockfarmer1]

i would find some that you trust to give him to
also no one would put that kind of a rooster in a cockfight so don't worry about that
cock fighters are game chickens that have been bread to fight not just some big friendly yard rooster like yours he is made for being pretty and nice games are made in my opinion to be pretty, mean, and kill
people shouldn't be so quick to judge people that fight chickens before they know everything about it

 

[sben451]

Try putting an ad on Craigslist, or make a flyer with his picture, offering a free healthy rooster. Post the flyers locally. I had a phone call recently from someone looking to buy roosters for Chinese New Year celebrations.

 

[knjinnm]

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Aaaah what were they going to do with the rooster on Chinese new year ... go out for a beer?

 

[rnorris1234]

I'm sure it depends on your location, but I have posted on craigs list over and over again with no luck at all. This morning I decided to post a flyer up at the local TSC and I had 4 phone calls today! By sundown my 2 extra roos were going home and will help feed a family this weekend.

 

[DTchickens]

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I wouldn't say they are bred to be mean, that would give the impression that most people have.. Which is gamefowl are evil roosters, when in actuality gamefowl themselves are some of the gentlest roosters you will be around. My birds don't hurt anyone except one, possibly two which were received from someone else and even that one, leave him alone and he'll leave you alone. I personally don't like breeding an aggressive rooster.

If I raise gamefowl, I like them to be game. Much like if I were raising a Leghorn it better be a good layer, and if I am raising a Silkie it better be Silkie-feathered. It is just part of their characteristics to me, a "type" if you will, and without it I believe they shouldn't even be called a "game". And I have a theory that roosters that are manfighters, somewhere possibly deep-down inside are just junk for a game rooster. I say most aggressive birds attack people out of fear, really most aggressiveness period out of any animal is in fear, though there are some cases. And I believe fear, would exclude gameness.

Gamefowl are "mean" in the sense that cocks will fight other cocks by the time they are the age of 8-10 months old (some sooner, my whitehackle changed where he couldn't be around other cocks at the age of 6 months.) And in my Shamo's, which are Oriental gamefowl, the hens are just as bad as the roosters.. But towards people I believe a gamecock should carry himself with pride, confidence, and gentleness toward his keeper. As long as people keep the roosters separate from other roosters, not a problem.

-Daniel

 

[peacockfarmer1]

DT chickens- i agree with you completely i have had alot of game roosters that where very friendly and became my pets and when i think about it every rooster i have ever hatched or raised from young was not a manfighter but many that i have bought where mean or spooky around people. I love the games and thats why i raise them.
what i was trying to say was you cant just throw any rooster in a pit and him fight like a game rooster

 

[20123001]

We had 6 extra roosters so my dad decided to put an ad in the paper, for 6 free roosters. It was free to post because it was a free ad. Anyways within the next week my dad got TONS of calls! Some wanted them just to listen to because they had roosters when they were youngher! so you could try that idea! it worked for me.