Upon decided or should I say receiving our chickens (the first six were a gift to my husband for his birthday from my wonderful mother-in-law) we quickly agreed that we would not have a rooster on the farm. Nothing against roosters but we do have a small child that we want to keep safe and the many rooster stories had us a bit leery of them. However, as with many things we say around here things do CHANGE; and we now find ourselves with a rooster and not only one but two; Dapper Dan and Russel Crow as we refer to them as.
Dapper Dan is a Dominique that we purchased from a friend who was doing a 4-H project with her students. We purchased five from her at around 1 week of age; we had no idea weather they would be male or female chickens. We were hoping all would be hens to produce lots of eggs for us.
You can see Dapper Dan on the far right of the picture running from little miss E. He has a beautiful set of tail feathers that this pictures just doesn't do justice too. (I am not a good photographer that's for sure). He is a vey young rooster and walks around struting his stuff the entire time we are around. I think he has his days and nights mixed up because he crows all evening. Someone needs to change his a.m. and p.m. settings.
Right now we are glad to have him around as he helps protect the other hens. And he will be allowed to stick around the farm as long as he continues running away from miss E and not towards her!
Russel Crow is pictured below, he is also a dominique chicken.
We never set out to get a rooster but have been blessed with two I guess you could say. :)
Have any of you had an encounter with a Rooster? If so, we it good or bad?
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