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Thanks for your story! I just found out I have a roo and have decided to keep him. Thanks!
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Dear Chicken Lovers:
Among chickens roosters are better pets than hens.
* Males develop a more intimate relationship with you than females. This is my experience. I have had 3 roosters and various hens.
* Generally the rooster is more pretty than the hen.
* To prohibit roosters because of being all noisy is complete nonsense, even if they do so. The barking of a dog is as noisy as the crowing of a rooster. Whereas I consider the crowing of a rooster quite more beautiful than the noise of a barking dog. But everyone loves dogs, contrary to roosters.
Less noisy are all Bantam-roosters, because their voice is too weak.
A good option in big birds is the rooster from cochin chicken breed: he crows quite little, because he is too lazy. Another advantage of this breed is that it pecks you very little or not at all, because cochins are very, very pacific.
Yours truly: Toivo Willmann
With what a hell do you feed them, with steroidhormons? Or your neighbours have very silent large chicken breeds to be compared with.{My 9 bantam roos are every bit as loud as my 3 LF roos, fwiw. }
With what a hell do you feed them, with steroidhormons? Or your neighbours have very silent large chicken breeds to be compared with.
Yours truly: Toivo
Tovio some valid points made but I would like to say that several points are a bit off. Bantam boys can be as loud as LF some even louder.
The boys are often prettier as you said because by natures design, male birds tend to be more brightly colored or patterned to draw attention of predators whereas hens need to be able to hide.
Cochin are not necessarily a quieter breed....roosters crow when roosters want to. Cochin are a docile friendly bunch usually. I have always lived the Cochin I have had over the years.
I love hearing my boys crowing.....whereas the area barking dogs are obnoxious and you could not be more correct on that front.
Tikkijane I adore my boys and have the hardest time rehiming a boy when I have to. I had 17 at one time. LOL