A downside to cockerel ownership.....

twiggy2 said:
Or when you find him dead on Christmas morning which is what mine was up to. He seriously looked like he had fallen of his perch in the night.
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Oh my god I'm so sorry, that must have been the most horrendous surprise ? rest in peace little guy :(
However much I moan about ours they do have a funny way of working their way into your heart.
 
Slow.sleighbells said:
Oh my god I'm so sorry, that must have been the most horrendous surprise ? rest in peace little guy :(
However much I moan about ours they do have a funny way of working their way into your heart.
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He was a recent arrival, a well bred black copper maran for my black copper maran ladies so it's very frustrating, I have 6 other who are all destined for the pot but no it had to be him.
 
Fern007 said:
We had a cockerel dumped in our hedge nearly a year ago. We had one chicken that raised some guinea fowl for us and we kept her. Once we managed to coax the cockerel out the hedge they got together and have been in separable since. They are so funny and I really love having them around.
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i love the boys, current one is an araucana x Marans bantam called Colin.
 
When one is accustomed to a rooster telling the world that it's 4 a.m, you hear them then fall back to sleep. I've never minded it. Chickens are great but we can't have any as not enough room sadly, not like the amount of room my Gran had for her chook yard.

Love the names for the roosters.
 
Lois Lame said:
When one is accustomed to a rooster telling the world that it's 4 a.m, you hear them then fall back to sleep. I've never minded it. Chickens are great but we can't have any as not enough room sadly, not like the amount of room my Gran had for her chook yard.

Love the names for the roosters.
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oh, today sans hangover I'm back to smiling wryly at Blackberry's morning serenade, rolling over and going back to sleep. He crows in greeting when you come out the back door too, it's so funny.
 
My poor old boy died at a very advanced age a couple of weeks ago. He was a pekin bantam cockeral called TinTin. He kept crowing till the very end and then just passed overnight in his house. :( I loved him and he was a total sweetheart to his hens. His bantam ladies passed some time before him and tbh he never really took to my black hens; I really think he gave up once his 'proper' wives had gone :( I am planning to donate my very irritatingly flighty black hens to my sister in law - somehow our yard isn't at all the same without TinTin and his powder puff girls and the black hens are incredibly destructive in the garden and beggars for roosting in dangerous places!! Hens do need a cockerel really I think so hopefully my hens will be better off where they are not required to be so domesticated. (SIL keeps her hens in the field in a huge mobile hen house and has several cockerels).
 
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