Your roos – good or bad? *Updated Chart on Page 15*

[michickenwrangler]

Our rooster is a great guy. Our daughter is 5 and she goes into the run without fear of being attacked. He's very chivalrous with the hens too. He's a hoot when he's defending them. Their run is near our large spring fed pond and we get quite a few green and great blue herons stopping buyy. When they do, Fred (the roo) scuttles over to the fence and does his little "chicken growl" at them until they leave, defending his women.

 

[rcentner]

I have 2 roosters. My mutt rooster...Sam...is cool. He loves his hens and cares and provides for them all day, every day. My OEG rooster....Walter...is not so gentlemanly but a very pretty roo!

no good pic of walter yet..he moves so fast pics don't come out good

 

[Milliemay]

So far we like our loud mouth "Rooster Roy" he's an RIR. That's him in my avatar. 20 weeks old, and pleasant so far. We also have a banty mutt that hangs out with our 3 banty mutt hens. His little crow is funny.

 

[AHappychick]

honetly I like my roos way better than my hens, they just have so much personality I have way to many but they are all so sweet I cant seem to sell a lot of them, even though I dont have a place in my breeding programs for all of them

 

[TreeHugger]

I have 2 silkie roos. Both came from the same breeder/same hatch. They are about 3 years old. One is evil & one is as sweet as could be. The evil one only gets to stick around because he is the best looking silkie roo I've owned. The sweet one will get to stay longer

I decided this year to keep back 2 bantam polish roos. One is frizzle & one is not. So far so good with them. The non-frizzle likes to fly up & perch on my arm.

 

[Stephanie-n-Hayden]

I am new to the chicken thing, this is my first year ever having (or being around chickens). We bought 6 day-old chicks in April from TSC, not knowing what we wee getting into. They stayed in the house in a guinee pig cage for the first few weeks, then moved cage out to garage (stinky) where they lived for a couple more weeks while we built there coop. Started getting too big for cage, then moved into large dog kennel, then finally out the the coop! Anyway, I thought we had 5 hens and 1 rooster. However, as they started getting older, around 4 months old, I realized that three of the 4 GLW bantams (I assume is what they are from looking at hundreds of pictures of other birds) were acting way more aggressively towards the others. They turned out to be roosters too. Great, now what. I have 4 roosters and 2 hens. Well, easy decision, because, the three GLW's were not too nice to me or the other birds. so I gave them away. I kept the nice, non-aggressive rooster which I lovingly named Ricky Roo, and the two hens (GLW bantam, named Henny Penny, and a white Silky named Silly), adpoted a RIR from certain death from another farm and named her Growly, because she is not as comfortable with us as our chickens and growls all the time at us.

Anyway, Ricky Roo was the best little rooster. I don't know what kind he was, I haven't been able to figure it our yet. He was a bantam. He was golden brown around his neck, darker wing feathers, and long white tail feather. He was so sweet. He never showed any signs of aggression toward the hens or myself. Granted, he was still young, and unfortunatley did not live long (he was assumably taken by a hawk earlier this week

He would follow me around the yard, the hens of course following him, and crow at me when I wasn't paying him any attention. I would sit down on the ground and he would then start pecking around to ignore me, all the while keeping his eye on me to make sure was watching him. In the evening, I always went into the coop for cuddle time. He would hope over to me and stare at me until I put my arm down for him to jump up onto my shoulders. He would then rub around in my hair and walk from shoulder to shoulder.

I have always heard that roosters were aggressive and was kinda scarred to have one, but I have to say, he was so gentle, and was my favorite out of the flock. I loved him more than I eve thought I would have and miss him very much. RIP Ricky Roo

 

[Chicks_N_Horses]

I have about 20 roosters. I like each and every one of them. I love my big game roo. He is gorgeous and the best caretaker of any roo I have ever had. He lives in the nursery coop because he actually is a better moma than my broody is!

 

[Stephanie-n-Hayden]

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How do you tell a Silky roo from a Silky pullet. I have a Silky who I think is a pullet, but she doesn't act as docile as the other pullets. She has always been independant. I have read that Silkies don't have combs or waddles, and I am not sure how to tell. Though I think she has started laying eggs this week, so until I can know for sure, the jury is still out.

 

[damselfish]

We have a Speckled Sussex roo that's about 7 months old. I'm neutral about him. He's pretty good with the girls, but occasionally decides to challenge me & I have to chase him around a bit. Then he's usually good for a while, until he forgets.

He's very handsome & quite smart, but if we had kids, my guess is that he would have had to go before now.

 

[gritsar]

Everyone knows I love my Thor. He's a LF dark brahma. I need to get some current pics of him, but I'm waiting for him to finish his molt.