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

[wordgirl]

Go, BYC roos (the nice ones, that is

) !!! Wow – thanks, everyone, for telling me about all your roos. Here's the newly updated list – Keep 'em coming!

Ameraucana/EE
Good 15 Okay 2 Bad 5
Ancona
Good 2 Okay Bad
Andalusian
Good Okay 2 Bad
Araucana
Good 1 Okay Bad
Aseel
Good 1 Okay Bad
Australorp
Good 7 Okay Bad
Brahma
Good 3 Okay Bad
Buckeye
Good 4 Okay Bad 3
Buttercup
Good 1 Okay Bad
Cochin
Good 23 Okay 2 Bad 1
Delaware
Good 1 Okay 1 Bad 2
Dutch
Good 2 Okay Bad
Dorkings
Good Okay 1 Bad
d'Uccle
Good 3 Okay 2 Bad
Faverolle
Good 4 Okay 1 Bad
Games
Good 100+ Okay 1 Bad 2
Japanese Bantams
Good 5 Okay Bad
Javas
Good Okay Bad 9
Jersey Giants
Good 4 Okay 1 Bad 1
Leghorn
Good 5 Okay Bad
Marans
Good Okay Bad 1
Minorca
Good 1 Okay 1 Bad
Mixes
Good 9 Okay 1 Bad
New Hampshire Red
Good 1 Okay Bad 2
Orpingtons
Good 9 Okay 3 Bad
Old English Game Bantam
Good 3 Okay Bad 3
Phoenix
Good 1 Okay 1 Bad
Plymouth Rocks
Good 8 Okay 2 Bad 3
Polish
Good 12 Okay Bad 1
Red Jungle Fowl
Good 1 Okay Bad
Rhode Island Red
Good 9 Okay 2 Bad 6
Sabelpoot (Booted Bantam)
Good Okay 1 Bad
Sebright
Good 1 Okay Bad
Serama
Good 6 Okay 4 Bad 1
Sexlinks
Good 1 Okay Bad 1
Showgirl
Good 1 Okay Bad
Silkie
Good 8 Okay 1 Bad 2
Sussex
Good 2 Okay 1 Bad
Welsummer
Good Okay 1 Bad
Wyandottes
Good 5 Okay Bad 4
Unknown
Good 3 Okay Bad

 

[momma's chickens]

I see you don't have Buttercup on your list. I had the nicest sweetest Buttercup rooster ever. He died last week defending his girls!

I miss him very so!

 

[wordgirl]

momma's chickens :

I see you don't have Buttercup on your list. I had the nicest sweetest Buttercup rooster ever. He died last week defending his girls!

I miss him very so! ]

Buttercups coming up! Such a beautiful boy! I'm sorry you lost him!

 

[wordgirl]

Quote:
Are you sure that's a Leghorn? It doesn't have white earlobes.

 

[The Chickens' Maid]

We have three Buff Orpington/Silkie cockerels who are the sweetest little roosters!
Their dad is a Buff Orpington, and he is even better than them! He gives me pleading looks when he wants to be picked up, and they all fall asleep when I hold them!

 

[wordgirl]

The Chickens' Maid :

We have three Buff Orpington/Silkie cockerels who are the sweetest little roosters!
Their dad is a Buff Orpington, and he is even better than them! He gives me pleading looks when he wants to be picked up, and they all fall asleep when I hold them!

I wish our chickens were like that. None of them really like being held all that much.

 

[cubalaya]

ameraucana ee roos are nice for the most part, we eat the mean ones. cubalayas are nice and friendly to people but will kill each other. barred rocks start out nice but get meaner as they get older.

 

[Criskin]

Name: King Louis
Breed: Buff Orpington
Age: 4 months
Disposition: Great

Right now I only have 1 adult rooster. King Louis is a 4 month old Buff Orpington and he is a very sweet guy. He always shares his food and is ever on the lookout for danger. He has also figured out what a window is because any time I am near one he walks up, looks in and cocks his head at me. Although he isn't aggressive towards people he does keep his ladies in line...if he sees them fighting amongst themselves he is always quick to jump in and break it up. He mainly has trouble with Esme, a Barred Rock hen who is always picking on everyone, but usually after they square off he pecks her, she backs down and, well, you know...

Name: Philipe
Breed: Partridge Rock
Age: 4 months (before he was culled)
Disposition: Not so good

Philipe never attacked people, but at feeding time he would chase off the hens and not let them eat until he was finished. He wouldn't pick on Louis, though, and I noticed that the hens would run behind Louis so that they could actually get something to eat. I couldn't have my poor hens starving and since I really only needed one rooster, we had Philip for dinner a couple of weeks ago. It was my first cull but everyone seems happier with the new arrangement. (Although Philipe's favorite hen, Hilda, mourned for a couple of days).

 

[wordgirl]

momma's chickens :

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk129/chicken2004/PicsofHome2004.jpg

Oh my goodness – I was just looking at that picture. We have a Gold Link that looks just like that brownish hen on the left! What kind is she?​

 

[BlackBart]

Ceasar
Welsumer
6 month
excellent temperament

Simon
Mille Fleur cross
3 years
very good, over sexed

Frank
Silkie cross
age, who knows
good, can attack when he thinks his hens might be threatened