Why have a rooster? new Pg 10 video pg 13

[gryeyes]

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Same here. I have a surfeit of roosters (according to other folks) but I love 'em all. I, too, know which rooster is crowing by the sound. When a new one starts up - so cute and so un-manly! - I go looking to see who is trying out his Big Boy voice.

I even have two HUGE Jersey Giant roosters who are BFFs and roost next to each other every night.

 

[laurent46]

Super story...Lancelot knight in shining armor just like his namesake in Camelot !
I love my roosters and am super mad, Los Angeles City made me get rid of them since they were not 70 ft away from the neighbor's house...I got a $340.00 ticket (!!!!) and had to find a new home for my boys...Gigantor, the sussex, Choco the Marans and my tiny Japanese and silky roos...All of that in account of a grumpy and anonymous neighbor who file a complaint with the city...Love my boys and miss them horribly, so do the girls which are pecking one another and looking pretty bad after 3 months with no man in the coops...Oh well...I am rasing a couple of young ones and keeping my fingers crossed so they do not crowe too much and hoping the mean neighbor has moved away..

 

[dglanton]

I'll give Lancelot a blue ribbon. The mother coyote moved her babies but made a run for your rooster and it's not over with that coyote. Keep you rifle handy.

One night I forgot to close the hens coop door after they had gone to rooster and the neighbors cat attacked the hens sometime during the night. The next morning I found my error of not closing the coop door and feathers were all over the floor of the coop and house. The dominant hen, Bossie, had many of her feathers missing from her back where the cat had attracted. Bossie took over the duties of a rooster and chased off the cat. They were going on about their everyday business like nothing had happened and singing as usual.

I now have a rooster and the neighbor's has a missing cat.

 

[undercoverchickenlover]

Beautiful story and very well written! Go head on Lancelot - you're the man!

 

[speckledhen]

Believe it or not, she already has another predator story to tell. Geez, the drama at Cetawin's house is something else lately!

 

[Cetawin]

Not fair....I guess I am getting my just due of three years with nothing? LOL


Okay so here is what happened tonight...this evening....a bit ago.... ahem


I am talking to husband on the phone and I hear my rooster alarm, I step out the sliding glass door and see everyone running hither and yon and I start scanning the chaos and see a little fox standing on my red cochin...this huge pile of feathers and I start running down the steps screaming and yes cursing....and Lancelot starts pacing right along side me running at this fox...it just sat there looking at me and I kicked him in the face and off my cochin...who bolted up and ran for it. Then Lancelot began chasing the fox back to the woods. Thankfully, Ruby is okay and Lancelot stopped when I called him and came back to me. So now...a new predator must die and the stupid thing is not much bigger than my barn cat. It looks like he ran into the crowd of girls and grabbed at a BO and a NHR but could not catch them so he just jumped up and pancaked my cochin to the ground....he never got a chance to even bite her and I was running at him like a psycho woman and then kicking him in the face. I hope he has one helluva headache later. Look at the feathers.....

But my handsome blue boy was not gonna let mama go after that thing alone...no sir buddy, he was going right with me after it. hehehehehe

 

[Cardine]

That's just lovely. Hmmm, maybe I need to keep the Cuckoo Marans roo that I have noticed in my batch of 4 week old pullets.....

 

[Cetawin]

Yes Cardine you do. Keep him.

 

[speckledhen]

That Lance is sure earning his keep around your place, isn't he?

 

[catlady58]

Your story put tears in my eyes. Thank you for sharing.

I have 4 BO roosters that are about 15 weeks old. 2 have started to crow, and I expect the other 2 soon. They are not bothering the hens (it may help that the hens are a year older) yet. I have a neighbor who is going to take 1, but do you think 3 roos are too much for 15 hens? I don't want anyone, including me, mistreated.

I am very thankful for this forum.