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bajajudy - 4-17-2007 at 11:17 AM

Do any of you have chickens? This is a miniature rooster who has become part of our family. He has the strangest c-ckadoodledoo you have ever heard. He sounds like someone has him by the throat. For weeks after we got him, I smiled every time I heard him crow. Now a pet that can make you smile is a good thing, no? I also credit him with getting Gympy to start laying eggs. We have had her for almost 2 years and she just started laying about 3 months ago. Ray is a stud.

OOPS. I ran out the door and didnt check to see if the picture posted.

[Edited on 4-17-2007 by bajajudy]

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Cypress - 4-17-2007 at 11:25 AM

:biggrin:

Chickens are something else. :yes:

Roosters are chickens on steroids. :yes:

ROOSTER!

Pompano - 4-17-2007 at 11:51 AM

When I was tadpole size, I often visited my Uncle's farm where there were lots of chickens...and I remember a very large leghorn rooster.

If I had to give that damn monster a name...it would have been Attila...or better yet...Stewmeat!.

When I was helping to collect eggs, he became very territorial, and chased me all over the farmyard, furiously flapping his wings..then leaping on me when I tripped over a roadapple or other such obstacle. I figured to die on that farm, but luckily my uncle or aunt would save me from a horrible death by spur or beak.

I will never forget the last time I saw him....on the chopping block....

What goes around, comes around. :yes:

So... bajajudy, I take it Raymond is a mite more genteel?

p.s.

Disclaimer...The following is not the personal view of this poster nor can he be held responsible for any decrease in egg production:

From Robert Plamondon's Poultry Pages..."Hens will lay just as many eggs if you don't have a rooster. Hens don't really like roosters very much, anyway. Roosters will sometimes help defend the flock, especially by keeping a watch on the sky for hawks. But their presence in a flock is optional unless you plan on hatching some eggs."

[Edited on 4-17-2007 by Pompano]

Santiago - 4-17-2007 at 01:39 PM

Rooster Stick:
As a city boy I had my first introduction to roosters when I rented a room above a garage in the country while going to Fresno State. Walking to the house for supper and back again required carring a large stick for protection - sumbich was evil. After weeks of being terrorized I heard him coming up from behind, I turned and swung for the fences and caught the b*strd upside the head. Ate him for dinner next day.

Pomp: What time is 'super' and what time is 'dinner' where you hail from?

Skeet/Loreto - 4-17-2007 at 02:00 PM

Santiago; You must have been going to Fresno State when it first Moved to the "Country" in 1954!!??.

While living in Loreto we allways had Laying Hens with a Rooster named "Tucker" when first introduced to the Pen, immediately mounted all the Hens in a Mad, Frantic Rush--Thought the "T"sounded better in his name.

Skeet

Meet Gympy

bajajudy - 4-20-2007 at 11:30 AM

Here is Gympy. Our two year old who just started laying eggs.
We bought her before we understood that white chickens are for eating. We did not know to ask for ponedores(I think that is how you spell "laying hens" in Spanish)
Anyway she was maimed when we got her and as I liked to say, she would not have made the grade at Foster Farms, but we kept her. Since she cannot move around very well we try to keep a hose(not A) near her for water(see picture). Sometimes she wanders too far from the hose. When she does, she starts eating aloe. We think that is why she is turning reddish pink. She is one strange bird.

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Iflyfish - 4-20-2007 at 11:44 AM

Great looking rooster!

Every time I have been to the Palenquen in Mexico I have lost on white roosters, advice, bet on the brown ones every time.

I had a friend, hens stopped laying. His rooster had died. He called for advice, beings how I was raised on a farm and my mother raised laying hens.

I told him to put used light bulbs in the nest, alabaster eggs etc. to stimulate laying.

He called and told me that my suggestion did not work. He tells me that he did find something that worked by accident. He told me he walked outside one morning, grumpy and peeed with his hens. He confessed that in a pique of anger he kicked one of the hens and by gum, she layed an egg. This set the light bulb off in his head and he started to grab his hens by the neck, rub em into the ground and sure enough, henhouse full of eggs.

Apparently the aggressive behavior of the roosters, grabbing the neck, tossing the hens around, stimulates ovulation. Now don't get me wrong and don't extrapolate this to humans but........and please no militant feminist rants, please, I am just the reporter.

Iflyfish

Osprey - 4-20-2007 at 12:10 PM

I heard that too. Hope the guy doesn't eat those eggs. I also heard somebody did eat them, they were full of poison. Payback I guess. They call the poison Henlock.

FARASHA - 4-20-2007 at 12:14 PM

:lol:

- FLYFISHERWHENNOTKICKINGHENS - THAT IS A FUNNY STORY.
I always knew, chicks are stupid, my Granny had quite a lot. They never found home from alone. They lost direction to home every single day - we had to CALL them in every eve.
Granny used a distinctive call - and then they came running like crazy. >f<

Iflyfish - 4-20-2007 at 12:17 PM

Henlock, baaaaad nothing to crow about! Chickenfeed, hardscratch pun....

Iflyfish

Iflyfish - 4-20-2007 at 12:21 PM

FARASHA

Met some stupid chicks in my day too. Sorry your grandmother had so many. I am sure that the problem stopped with your generation. Thanks for sharing.

Iflyfishwhennotkickinthechicksaround

Pompano - 4-20-2007 at 12:23 PM

Pompano: " That was a terrible storm you had down your way. bajajudy. "

bajajudy: " It was bad. Our hen had her back to the wind and she laid the same egg five times."

p.s. bajajudy, if it doesn't work out, maybe the hen could be..ah.. 'useful'.. on a camping trip?

[Edited on 4-20-2007 by Pompano]

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FARASHA - 4-20-2007 at 12:53 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Pompano
Pompano: " That was a terrible storm you had down your way. bajajudy. "

bajajudy: " It was bad. Our hen had her back to the wind and she laid the same egg five times."

p.s. bajajudy, if it doesn't work out, maybe the hen could be..ah.. 'useful'.. on a camping trip?

[Edited on 4-20-2007 by Pompano]

GOOD ONE!!!!LMAO

jerry - 4-20-2007 at 01:51 PM

when i was a kid the rooster atacted me too so one day to get even i lite fire crackers and tossing them to the roosters i had to time it right so they picked it up just at it blew their heads clean off my granny caught me there was hell to pay

Sallysouth - 4-20-2007 at 07:04 PM

Aw you guys are pretty funny! I personally think Judy has a very good looking "c-ck"!!I just found out today that my 'other-half" has purchased about 30 chicks and is planning to raise them in our garage, in a large cardboard box.I am kinda concerned for many reasons, one being the issue of rodents that are attracted to the feed for the chicks.The next is the smell. We live in a small 1200 ft house, garage underneath, my bedroom just above, where I will be recuperating from major surgery. I'm kinda worried. Any advice? :?:

[Edited on 4-21-2007 by Sallysouth]

bajajudy - 4-20-2007 at 08:39 PM

soup

Sallysouth - 4-20-2007 at 09:10 PM

He he Judy!! Thats a good one!! But the dumb thing is that he is raising them for someone else!Ergo, no soup!! Would be good for my recovery, but he doesn't have that part of his brain anymore :no:

Thanks for the thought tho!

He got his chicks...

Pompano - 4-20-2007 at 09:10 PM

...and you get this guy.

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Sallysouth - 4-20-2007 at 09:13 PM

Hey Pomp, you have an extra I can borrow? that would be a chicken Hawk, yes?

Pompano - 4-20-2007 at 09:21 PM

Yes, indeed....a red-tailed southwestern hawk...dubbed the chicken hawk.

30 chicks living below me was great for those college years...but not these days!

Raising chickens...hmm....you either love em or hate em. My wife has a thing about live chickens, she grew up on a farm and thinks they are as dumb as a box of rocks. Go figure.

Sallysouth - 4-20-2007 at 09:28 PM

SOOOO, what are you tryng to tell me? "He" says they will be in the garage for two to three weeks.I think this project of his is really stupid, but then again "he" is on serious meds!! :wow:

And do you have an extra Hawk I can borrow? I promise I will return him!

[Edited on 4-21-2007 by Sallysouth]

DavidT - 4-20-2007 at 10:23 PM

My Grandfather claims they used to place large glass eggs in the henhouse to encourage the hens. He swore one day he walked in and found a snake with a large egg shaped bulge about the midsection.

Remember, a chicken is just an eggs way of making another egg.

Iflyfish - 4-21-2007 at 12:30 AM

I have been thinking about Gimpy, slow day here, anyway, I once visited the Flamingo Reserve in Celestun on the Yucatan. There are thousands of these long neck beauties devouring shrimp. They arrive white and leave the color of a plastic yard variety. At any rate, many of them look like Gimpy on on the way to their makeover. Is she by any chance eating shrimp shells? I would think Alo Vera would turn her green?

Iflyfishwhennotthinkingaboutgimpchicks

Neat!

Dave - 4-21-2007 at 08:28 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by jerry
to get even i lite fire crackers and tossing them to the roosters i had to time it right so they picked it up just at it blew their heads clean off

I used them blow up ant hills & then fry the survivors with a magnifying glass. Torture cats and stuff. But I grew out of it. :rolleyes:

Hey, do you like to start fires?

"Thanks... for the memories..lah da da da dah.."

Pompano - 4-21-2007 at 09:01 AM

Dave...you have unearthed a memory that takes me back to about age 10 when I had a Lionel train set which with we improvished our own version of "The Perils of Pauline" with Dudly Do-right as the hero...remember that?

My buddy, Randy, and I were little devils. We had my train set all laid out in our basement and were having lots of fun running the train...me yelling "You gotta pay the rent..you gotta pay the rent!"....Randy yelling back, "Oh..I can't pay the rent! I can't pay the rent!"..and so on.

Then the train would go bump .. bump, and fall off from hitting an obstacle on the track...and my mother would yell down the stairs..."Roger-Randall, you two untie those mice right now!"

Randy is a train engineer to this day. I got out of Leavenworth a long time ago.

Ants

Tim - 4-21-2007 at 12:02 PM

When I was a kid I used to take old candy bars and set them outside for about 2-3 hours. Come back and they'd be full of ants -- so I'd lite a couple firecrackers and watch them blow up. If lucky I'd catch a fly or two that would stop by.

Rooster

Tim - 4-21-2007 at 12:08 PM

In Tijuana our friends have a guard-rooster. They don't need a dog because this bird will make noise and warn against anything coming. And if you get too close it will peck you. Funny thing it only attacks men - my wife and niece were able to get by and it went after my nephew (still sitting in the van trying to get out).

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Iflyfish - 4-21-2007 at 06:20 PM

The chinese use geese as sentrys.

Iflyfish

FARASHA - 4-22-2007 at 09:20 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Iflyfish
The chinese use geese as sentrys.

Iflyfish

Europeans did too, farmers used them to be warned from all kind of predators, and also from thieves.
There is even a story about it, involves the Saint Martin.

boe4fun - 4-22-2007 at 10:58 AM

A little known historical story: The American rebels during the war of independence with England would train game (fighting) c-cks to attack red. During the war a squadron of these fowl actually captured a group of Redcoats. Hence the phrase "Chicken catch a torry" :biggrin:

turtleandtoad - 4-22-2007 at 11:02 AM

Now that's a groaner!!!