RE: GRAND EGGS!

I never had too much trouble with having two roosters, but I don't know
what your situation is like. A couple times a hen would have a clutch
and the young roosters would grow up subservient already, so there was
squabbling but mostly they stayed in line, no one got hurt. We have
introduced half-grown chicks to adults before, but there were so many
young'uns the older ones didn't try to attack them much. And we have a
pretty decent sized area for them, so the beta males had room to run
away. What I always thought was amusing is that only the dominant
rooster gets to crow, we would never hear any of the others until the
boss got removed. Then the others would squabble amongst themselves and
within a week or so only one voice would be heard again. Separate them
so they can't get at one another and they all go off.

Cyndi


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From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of Jesse Bell
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 8:57 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] GRAND EGGS!

Yeh...I'm going to have to deal with that situation pretty soon. My old
rooster is realllly old (about 9 years old...which is old for a rooster)
and I would like to keep one of the new "doodlers" because he is SO
pretty....but I don't want them fighting. The young one would probably
kill my old one. I ended up with 5 doodlers out of the 13 new chicks.
Gonna have to find some homes for 'em.




Daryl <pulis@mindspring.com> wrote:
  I guess I'm a greatgrandchicken several times over, but I had a head
start -
I've been raising them for more than 20 years. I kept the shell of one
of
the first eggs around for a long time. I don't know what happened to it.
I
can still remember the thrill of that first egg. I found it when it was
still warm. And the first grand egg was a thrill, and the first great
grand
egg...

Alas, I don't have any more descendents from the original batch. They've
all
gone on to the big coop in the sky. I have some 2 year olds and 11 month

olds now, and I'll get some new chicks when they come into the local
feed
store. It saves on having to decide what to do with the surplus
roosters.
I'm too old for that now, and there aren't many people locally that
still
keep birds. One rooster would be ok, since our old boy died a month or
so
ago, but two is just too much fighting.

d


>I think this makes me a Great Grand Chicken or something. Maybe I
should
> "bronze" one of those little eggs and put it on a platform. (laughing)

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