canesisters
Garden Master
I hear people talk about a rooster that crows for hours on end. Hurra lets fly with maybe 10 crows right at dawn and then hes done. And he has a very nice melodious voice - not at all screechy or insanely loud. Just 3 notes that sound to me like I seeeEEEE yooooooooou. Now of course, hell sound off if there is anything that he considers worth crowing about. Me walking around the coop before dawn will get a crow or two. Cars pulling into the drive... you know, dangerous things like that. But mostly hes pretty quiet for a roo.
Hes good to his girls, calling them over when he finds treats or bugs. Actually, he gets all jealous when Im there giving out treats and will do his Ive found a bug! dance and then pick up ANYTHING in an attempt to get them to pay attention to him. And hes watchful and protective of them. Hes always watching the sky and sounds the alarm if anything that he deems dangerous flies over.
I hear people talk about mean, nasty roos that attack - and even draw blood! Hurra is only 10 months old and is still testing his might against me. Every once in a while he will take a half hearted run at me. This always gets him caught, held down, and his head pecked with my fingers until he squawks like the little hens do when the big hens pick on them. When I let him up, he gives me a wide berth for a few weeks. I figure that all his young roo hormones will settle down in a few months.
He rules the roost, but I rule the rooster
When I first got chicks, I swore I would not have a rooster. I said over and over that if any of them turn out to be roos, they were going to a neighbors house and being sent to freezer camp. Im so glad now that he was a stealth roo and kept his true identity secret until after I had fallen in love with him.
Such a funny, proud, awkward, lovely, silly bird.
Hes good to his girls, calling them over when he finds treats or bugs. Actually, he gets all jealous when Im there giving out treats and will do his Ive found a bug! dance and then pick up ANYTHING in an attempt to get them to pay attention to him. And hes watchful and protective of them. Hes always watching the sky and sounds the alarm if anything that he deems dangerous flies over.
I hear people talk about mean, nasty roos that attack - and even draw blood! Hurra is only 10 months old and is still testing his might against me. Every once in a while he will take a half hearted run at me. This always gets him caught, held down, and his head pecked with my fingers until he squawks like the little hens do when the big hens pick on them. When I let him up, he gives me a wide berth for a few weeks. I figure that all his young roo hormones will settle down in a few months.
He rules the roost, but I rule the rooster
When I first got chicks, I swore I would not have a rooster. I said over and over that if any of them turn out to be roos, they were going to a neighbors house and being sent to freezer camp. Im so glad now that he was a stealth roo and kept his true identity secret until after I had fallen in love with him.
Such a funny, proud, awkward, lovely, silly bird.
i do love my boys and it is nice most of them get along well enough together. i do have a roo that loses his crow for a day or two, sounds like laryngitis because he still tries crowing but all that comes out is wind that sounds like he's trying to get the right notes. this has come and gone a couple times so far this winter. he's not showing any signs of sickness when it happens so i'm hoping that this could be genetic and any roos from his line have that too! 
