Why do you keep a rooster...

[gryeyes]

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This, plus all the other reasons already stated.

 

[chickery-do]

Plus hey, the roos are just beautiful!  Those beautiful flowing tails are just wonderful, plus they can have flashier colors.  Plus, sniff the pic is gone, but having a 5 y/o carrying around a Jersey Giant roo like a baby with a doll bonnet tied on his head?  Yeah right, how can you beat that for cute factor?  Said roo has also tolerated such abuse as to be put in doll stollers and pushed around.  While wearing a bonnet.  And at one point a doll's dress.
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But, there s still the horrifying ones that will go crazy on you! Some are no fit for kid or adults!

 

[frogz]

Pablo, my buff brahma rooster is just a doll. He is always with his harem and works hard to make sure they are happy. I also just love listening to him crow in the morning. He doesn't make much noise otherwise. Too bad he doesn't lay eggs! But he has 8 girls to do that for him. XD I keep a rooster because he's quiet, kind, and adds some atmosphere to my farm.

 

[shmccarthy]

My first roo was an accident but I decide to keep him after I saw what a good boy he was. He's protective of his girls and alerts them to the first sign of danger. I decided I want to incubate eggs so I got a second rooster this year. He's also very sweet and helps watch over the flock. Roosters seem to mainly be used for breeding and protection, but they're also pretty nice to look at too.

My first rooster, Hermes, an Easter egger

My second rooster, Titan, a barred rock. This was shortly after I got him.
I do love my boys!

 

[shmccarthy]

Plus hey, the roos are just beautiful!  Those beautiful flowing tails are just wonderful, plus they can have flashier colors.  Plus, sniff the pic is gone, but having a 5 y/o carrying around a Jersey Giant roo like a baby with a doll bonnet tied on his head?  Yeah right, how can you beat that for cute factor?  Said roo has also tolerated such abuse as to be put in doll stollers and pushed around.  While wearing a bonnet.  And at one point a doll's dress.

But, there s still the horrifying ones that will go crazy on you! Some are no fit for kid or adults![/quote]
Oh my gosh, that would be a hoot to see! My roosters would never let anyone do that, or even bet them. But my lab on the other hand.... LOL

 

[shmccarthy]

Our Jersey Giant, Black Orph, SLW and at least 2, maybe 3, of the white bantam Cochin roos are for breeding first and for most (3rd is a jerk).  They do the alarm call for protection, but they do also have a Great Pyr who lives with them in the large run area, so they don't need to protect, but they do as nature wants them to.


The frizzled bantam Cochin roo of some odd color, he has no breeding role (or he's not supposed to! ahem as we have a daughter of his with one of his BR girls, rolling my eyes here), but ok, fine.  He's hilarious looking.  He's funny to watch.  He's just a total doll really.  My 6 y/o showed him in Clover Kids (early 4-H here) this last summer, and he was the easiest bird by far to handle in the group, and he was just too stinking cute. 


Generally also, our roos are  just the nicer of the flock.  The ladies are pleasant and nice, but the roos are like puppy dogs following behind you some days, unless they are of the jerk or evil roo status and thus get to join freezer camp.  Plus, the buka-buka-buka-buka treat alert is just hilarious to watch the roos find something lovely to eat and proudly announce it to the hens, who stampede over like elephants and gobble up the yummy to leave scraps if anything for the roos.  Who happily go off and buka-buka-buka over the next treat...

I absolutely love it when roosters find treats for their girls, I think it's one of the cutest things they do! My rooster Hermes will find "treats" but most of them will be false alarms. I went and pruned out crab apple tree and left the branches for the deer to munch on, and he found them and started throwing the small pieces up in the air and did his "treat call" all the girls ran over and looked at his small branch, have him a stink eye, and left. They didn't seem too impressed. He wasn't too heart broken and kept playing with his little branch and pulling the leaves off. This ended up going on for days. The amount of entertainment chickens provide sometime is priceless haha