My cock situation
 

So we inherited a bunch of classroom birds and they are looking pretty cocky. Is too much cock a first world problem?

Cocks!

this dude too. he's gonna be huge

Well there's plenty of whine here to make coc au vin

I'm rooting for the Bantam Cock.

This is culture shock for Griftopia, which has been Estrogen dominated for years. now Griff has all his cocks in a row to reclaim control of the kingdom. Or not. ;)

Looks like all Plymouth Rocks. Did the teacher pull a fast one and give you all the cockerels? Very nice birds, but in the end ... You Only Need/There Can Only Be One.

What will you do with the rest?

Let 'em eat ticks. ;)

if memory serves my rooster problem consists of one Plymouth Rock, two Dominique who were bred here, a Rhode Island Red, that fancy dude who is gentle as a lamb, and two mostly white dudes who may be leghorn crosses. I'd say the farmer who gave them to her sexed them. I get the last laugh though there is a Lakenvelder hen.

I didn't actually need more birds since I have 4 Dominique laying and 6 young Plymouth Rock starting. The old Dominique rooster committed fratricide over the summer so the position of #2 rooster is open. I might keep 3 if they get along.

I can think of two roosterless flocks nearby and the one dude would make a pet. Soup is the likely outcome for the remaining.

Plymouth Rock!!!! I could not remember the name of the breed.

Anywho...I was driving through the local city park when I saw something move in the corner of the windshield. Right there on the side of the road, right behind the creekside swing, was this magnificent bastard of a rooster.

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He had a stark, white hen w/him. It had stormed the night before, and I figger they crossed the creek somehow from the hobby farm on the other side.

Haven't seen 'em since.

OMG. Now we know why the chicken crossed the creek! :D

When my dad visited from Texas we built a chicken coop out of old shipping pallets. It can probably house about a dozen egg layers. I still need to finish the roosts and nests, so far got the roof finished before rainy season.

We want to get goats next. Like, goats instead of a lawn mower.

Word to the wise, goats prefer browsing trees and bushes to eating grass. A couple sheep would mow the the lawn though.

Thank you, wise man. Sheep might be less trouble and more cute.

I've known goats before.



eta: not, like, Biblically