Why I will ALWAYS Have Roosters in My Flock 

What a sweet reason🙂

Love this!

Not sure if your still active but congrats to your son getting married this month.

@@darthvader5532 thankyou

That was so beautiful. Your sons are lucky to have you.

All roasters are same 😊

Our rooster was raised as a hen until we discovered he wasn’t...LOL. So he was handled from the beginning. I’ve done several submission training sessions with him to make sure he knows I’m in charge. He doesn’t mean that he hasn’t tried to show me up. I ended up playing broom hockey with him twice because he got a little aggressive. For the most part he’s great to have around.

@Big Daddy I agree, as a kid a rooster would always chase me at my grampa's farm, I hated that mother#@*er.

Mine too!!!!!! I enjoy watching him care for his girls

I love the little call the rooster makes to bring his hens running to the food, and how he holds off eating any treats until all his hens have had their fill.

That is rough. I am sorry.

Dang man that’s sad. I love my pets so a pet getting killed is the worst.

Amen God bless your rooster

Rest in peace Hero

@@Nelson0 Worse is that the ingredients of pet-food partly or even mostly come from factory-farms where the inmates suffer every minute of their entire lives.

That's a super-long saying.

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@@KennuhWayne ☺📜🐓

That was apparently before all the Californians “flocked” to southern Oregon. Nowadays if you have a rooster all the neighbors complain about the noise… even out in the county.

Wow! It's changed! What part of Oregon are you in? I'm in rural New Hampshire.

Joe Smith it’s not very nice to keep your mother in law locked in the garage though...

Such a noble Bird, warrants having many hens with which to reproduce.

What dose he do to alert

Dogs and roosters do that the best imo.

Judy ZimShad they bark !!

Me too, and I really want to get three chickens....

Hahaha...we all have time to learn stuff now..

It's great to learn, cause knowledge is power!

We lived in a subdivision where they allowed you to have a few birds but no roosters. We had 3 chickens for quite a while. We got a few roosters accidently (kids hatching eggs) raised them until they started crowing and then found a home/plate for them. Since we started with the three we decided to find a place (actually not to far down the road) where they allow chickens and livestock, along with roosters. Still a tad in the city, still in a subdivision but a bit more spread apart. We now have 13 chickens and 1 rooster and he keeps them well in check. It's doable even around the cities depending on where you live.

Same lol

My rooster will straight Bruce Lee my dog if she gets too close too the hens, and then she mopes around all sad like it hurts her feelings and she just cant understand why he would do such a thing.

Ohhhh… that’s why my dog hates the rooster with a passion😂

I have a hen that ended up being a cock & it really was a blessing in disguise. Supposed to be sexed chicks I bought from TSC but obviously they made a tiny error when sexing them.

@@christopherjohnson769 LOL😂

My dog will actually protect the chicks!

That was a good rooster.cRIP❤️❤️❤️

Awwww how sad

Most city folk have no idea as to what a rooster will do to protect his girls. The best part is you don't have to train them to do that; like a dog barking at a noise at night, it's just what they do naturally.

Probably a barred rock rooster btw.

​@@maypliego1240 might have been a Dominique also.😊

Amazing.

Glad he survived 👍

D.C.

That is pretty awesome story!

Great

Senior.

PETA drones, that’s who.

Thats a good question. 600 people. Amazing. I would love to talk to one of them to see how their mind works. What makes them think, that was horrible?

Some people are bullies

Only haters. They only here to be a thorn in the side of decent Humans.

Lmaoo that's funny 😁

It’s the same with women, I take care of you we do the bang bang

They are a lot of work. But it's worth it I think. I find solitude and peace by spending time with my new flock.

a rooster can be priceless. they crow a beautiful and welcome song whenever it suits them and we love it. he loves his girlfriend, she him, and he is priceless. that’s “blackie”, he loves living in japan!

Now that's a real man !

Yes the real man had 2 wife’s

I witnessed my Rhode Island Red ASSAULTING a German Shepherd that slid under the fence with FULL CONFIDENCE and jumped over to ESCAPE with his furry carcass intact!

@wiseandgreen I think he's saying the rooster took the fox on in a fight

@wiseandgreen how did the girls stand up for Joe? Hes the one that is fighting, not them. Idiot

Love the story, thanks, I got a big laugh.!

😂😂😂😂

No,you were successful. They ran for cover. You obviously warned them of a hawk.👏👏

Utube are you a good person by living waters my friend

I wish I could have seen that

ME TOO! LOVE HEARING THEM CROW! SOME OF THEM CROW FUNNY ..... BUT I STILL LOVE IT!

You know its Been a while sense I had a flock. Two divorces kelp me humpin or struggling. I just retired not exactly how I wanted it but I just purchased 4 acres and house. No mortgages. It's small house buts it's to my liking . Just got move in very next day I started my chicken coop pen. I'm kinda in hurry to get set up. At 62 you wanta be done with the hard part . I got fish and chicken's on the brain. It's to hot for me to fish at the present. Really it's to hot to be working out doors for me that's is I've spoiled myself the last two years not working a regular job. But I got this new homestead. I probably want get to deep in garden few tomatoes plants next year maybe some bell peppers if I can grow it out of bucket I'm good. My old knee's or wore out I still get around pretty good yes it pains me some. But I enjoy getting cup of coffee going out to chicken pen kick back watch the squirrels and the birds not to mention the chickens I haven't had any for sometime I'm not waisting time getting set up. I'm getting into it just for pure enjoyment. I went over to flea market guy's has some bb reds year old . I like bantams breeds I really like them all but thoes little bb rooster's hard to beat for good morning show cock of the walk you might say. I got the three in dog crate In the basement . Coop under construction hopefully I will be done with it by end of the weekend. Got my outdoor table and chairs set up for my morning routine. Yes the whole point takes away past troubles. But I tell you the move and all the labor I'm gonna threw is definitely exhausting. I'm in the country near the Tennessee river 3o miles round trip to town . Doing the electricity turn on mail change water changing banks got get tags change. Keep yard mowed hunting inexpensive furniture. Single old fart not planning on entertaining. Basic necessities. One of my needs is thoes chickens simply because they relax me . That little bb rooster is in the basement he definitely let it be known he's in the neighborhood. Being in the country ain't country if you cant hear a rooster crow.

Ikr🐓💕

Absolutely they are a good focus in these times. Such individual personalities!

I talk to them when I go over to my buddies house. They are so cute. It’s hard to believe I love eating them. I try not to think about it when I’m talking to them. 🥴

I love my chooks but they are the ones who are crazy, that's why they are such fun!

Is he named after the guitar player?

@@bonek350 no he was named that because his feet were all messed up 😂😂 we arent that clever

@@aymaba1177 Did it get fixed? i know this is 1yr later

@@Buna2808 His feet or the hawk problem? No to both. He had messed up feet till a hawk carried him away. He was a bantam and so he never got big enough that the hawks left him alone. He had curled toes and as an adult bird its hard to correct without special boots and most of the time at his age it doesn't really work. He still got around and ran and it didn't cause him any issues so we never bothered with it.

Interesting. This reminds me of office politics where the team is mostly women.

@@SilverSunPublishing lol

But once you have a rooster you can't eat the eggs, right?

@@tbird2249 yes you get to eat the eggs, you just pick up your eggs daily. Its not a matter of fertilization with chickens but a matter of incubation and usually a chicken will lay for a whole week before going broody and incubating them. You shouldnt eat the eggs of a chicken that has been incubating them and that is why you pick them up daily

@@tbird2249 You can eat the eggs.... but chickens go through a " clucking " stage. They sit on the nest for long periods... and if all eggs are not picked up daily........and mixed in with other eggs you might sell.... There will be a nice bright " eye" with some blood in it looking back at you !

Sadly that's about all they can do is take the hit from a predator. They seem like fighters with other roosters but don't stand a chance against raccoons, foxes, hawks even a cat. Plus this fellow should put fencing over the top of fenced in area. Don't know why his chickens don't fly over that short fence.

Very true. I was thinking the same thing.

Stfu

My chickens fly over my fence all the time even though I put another 2 1/2 ‘ of extra fencing on top of my existing pen. Then their fox bait.

@Nunya Bidness hi, i read your comment about flying and I've found it depends on the breed, for most part larger breed do not fly as much but the bantam types seem to be fairly good flyers and we have some that fly into the rafters of our barn to roost. About 12' up. Ducks and other lage species tend not to fly much either except some of the wildish like Guinea or Turkey or mallard ducks and geese. Have a nice day! And enjoy the birds!

Rocky the Jamaican people who lived in Gutanamo, Cuba on base with us had wild chickens that they would feed and raise. Loved it! They ate all the bugs.

@@rebeccaharden2196 They spread leaf litter better than any rake, I cannot begin to tell what a difference its patina makes to the 'natural' look of a garden.

I’ve worked some animal rescues in my life and ran into a couple 3 ft tall Roosters. Monster birds!

MY ROOSTER FOUGHT OF RACCOONS HES A BADASS HE SAVED HIS HENS ALSO

Chickens are one of the dumbest animals on the planet.

Did you get new hens? That rooster would make great chicks.

@@mr.puddles5246 not in time for him. They were free range chickens and one day the neighbor's dogs got loose and killed him. He was such a badass and so beautiful. I really do miss him though.

They are a very noble creature, when all is said and done. Never forget the T-Rex DNA lurking beneath those feathers. Here's to all of our magnificent , fearless roos who saved their flocks. ❤

it is sad that we call a coward a ...chicken after you experienced this bravery from your rooster who is the real coward, man or chicken?

Wow this is SAD! My chickens all went indoors on concrete! The predators here are bad! I bought a huge rooster and found him decapitated when they were free-ranging.

@@lizngotho I feel your pain Racoons wiped out my beautiful flock. tore through the wall of the chicken coup and just went nuts slauhtering my flock. so I turned my pit bull on him.. still in the coop! he bit my dog in the chest after the pit bull threw him all over. My dog ran off in terror

@@rogerd4559 I get you have to do all you can to protect your birds. But set a live trap to relocate the raccoon, no need for both chickens and raccoon to get killed just for the raccoon trying to feed itself. Live traps exist for a reason.

Yeah, roosters can be vicious. Buddy's not met the wrong type yet, is all ;)

MYSLACS LLC Lawn & Landscapes I’d have had him first!

A mountain lion ?

Years ago I had a spitzhauben rooster. Early morning at 3am I heard a bang on my backdoor. Scared the shit out of me, I thought someone was breaking into the house. Turned on the light and looked out the door window it was my spitzhauben rooster with a great horned owl. The owl was sitting on the porch rails while the rooster was on the porch deck. Apparently they had been fighting. I opened the door the owl flew away. I grab the rooster and put in back in the pen. To my surprise I all of the hens were alive and well. I can't remember how the owl got in the chicken pen but was happy my Roo did his job.

Now that is a badass rooster.

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Just watched a video on how to deal with an aggressive rooster. It involved wearing gloves and holding it down and petting it. Holding it down mimicked a dominate rooster holding down a rival rooster. You should check the video out. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-I91CcqwnNgg.html

Rooster can become aggressive if one provokes it. After several provocations, he becomes aggressive all the time.

i was going to say we had a leghorn that got so bad at attacks he once took on a 50 ford..spurs were bout 1.5 inches long

My brother has a rooster that sometimes goes after him and his wife, especially the wife. She beat him with a stick and we were sure she killed him. But next morning he was crowing. I can hand feed him and have never been attacked. I have never been afraid of him. Why that is, is a mystery to me.

It's in the breed. I am yet to see a Leghorn rooster that doesn't attack humans and I've seen a lot.

Let the city people move back to the city

I have caught roosters actually giving the hens a break and setting on the eggs to keep them warm while the ladies fed and releaved themselves

that is the problem i have.. city transplants they move in from the city then complained about my roosters and sick thir unleashed dogs on them

jim halcom put a bullet in the dogs ass or shoot it with rocksalt

Glad you love your birds! Funny how city folk find crowing annoying but not trains, car horns, traffic and people yelling on sidewalks!! LOL!!

Happy for you and your flock! I too have (seven) roosters on a farm and they are all hand raised and come visit and in the house for snacks. People think roosters will fight but not if they are raised together.

Hey so I have a question, when they crow is it rlly loud or just I little bit because I live in the city and I’m afraid that if we get a rooster from our chicks we would have to give it to a friend who lives on the country.

You give eggs to your neighbor, you'll really be cherished. Would also help if you wanted to get a second rooster.

@@vlanix6875 yes they are allowed. If you are in the city you can easily hear that 10 houses away.

Oval eggs are female, pointy eggs male. Mark eggs, hatch them and see for yourself.☺

I can't keep them myself but the farm where I buy my feed has a small cafe and the roosters wander about the outside tables. They like eating bits of ice lolly from my hand and they are so very gorgeous when the sun hits their colours.

So true

Exactly the same thing happened to me man!

I typed in "Hot Chicks" now I'm watching this ....LMAO

So that the eggs taste really gross?

@@valeriepittman5066 the eggs taste no different being with or without a rooster

Aww That’s so sad My whole flock died and then we got more then a Hen died and another one died then another died. 😭😢😭😢😭😢

My rooster ran the furthest during a hawk attack and let a hen get killed. And he also ripped the scalp off a 4 week old chick trying to screw her. Needless to say, we no longer have a rooster

@@kphoenix137 Try a guard goose, they are way more aggressive to predators and stronger over all. They are also a little bit less noisy than a rooster.

I had a wonderful rooster once. He was an amazing yard manager, protector and serviced the girls without injuries. All my roos since have been compared to him. So far no one has lived up to him. He died protecting his girls. RIP

Awww, so sorry. Always sad. Hope you can get another for your girls . ❤️🙏🐔

Now i say i say son you are right.

Leghorn is a chicken breed, get a leghorn rooster and you can have his clone.

Yeah - like my bantam white phoenix doing his "business" on my australorp hen even as she's taking off like a rocket across the yard! Man, do I wish I caught that on video!

I'm a rooosta boya i say roostah not a chicken... My fav toon!

lol

lol I though my two brother roosters Heddie and Lamarr were oddly named

My two roosters Hedi and Lamar did the same thing, but my cornish hens were good flyers and would venture in neighbors yards, but fly up in trees if their dogs chased them

Love the names! haha

My Cys - Gendered wife and I will tag team anyone who comes into our yard.

@@brunskies92 And?

try turning over an old plank on the ground for them, call them over to gobble up all the crickets under it, a real treat for them

Marsh industries has all that information in a book about chicken behaviour

I have three boys and many people warned me there would be issues, especially when the third, Scruff, was showing rooster signs... However I feel there is a difference between introducing 3 roosters all together at once, and having three roosters all grow up together as a family unit. It has been a year now and they are all still getting along and the hens are just as happy and especially safe, no bird of prey (... Or pigeon) can sneak up on them and the nesting wildbirds are also being kept safe as no cats want to get chased by angry balls of fluff.

That’s terrific. Sometimes I think I’m just lucky for now and I find myself waiting for the other shoe to drop. I’ve had more brutal fighting with my five week old turkey poults - the worst go around yet just today. I can only assume two toms that battled it out. But they’re too young to tell yet. It was so bad that I had to step in. Ive never had to get in the middle of my roosters. I’m so glad someone else is fortunate like me with roosters. If I must, I’ll get rid of my hens first before thinning my rooster flock. Roosters are the best. I hope I don’t have to choose between any. I think you’re right- when they’re raised as one unit, your odds of a peaceful flock existence increases dramatically. My five actually work together to banish threats (dig, cat, etc). The three or four will confront head on while one or two s Sam around from Behind. Not much stands a chance with my five renegades. Yet, they love each other for the most part. And is too. Granted, when a strangers in the yard - they beat the German Shepard to the car door usually. And people tend to be more timid of poultry than dogs it seems. I find this extremely comical sometimes. Provided no one ever hurts them. They just greet strangers and seem to ask what they want. I’m always wondering the same thing anyway. 😂

A rooster can seriously hurt a small child, so people with kids are not being chicken. They're being responsible. Also there are roosters who will overmate with the hens and injure or kill them.

if you handle the roosters alot they will be willing to learn simple tricks, fly up on your shoulder etc

If you have a insect problem, mosquitos, crickets, ants, spiders, they will clean up your property

Just got my first. I had no idea they are smart.

@@kmbytt984 nice

@@kmbytt984 all chickens r smart. They can recognize up to 100 faces and 200 words. I also learned to mimic chicken sounds and they love it. Mine are all named and know their names. If I leave for a few hours, when I drive up, they run to great me. 25 hens, 1 roo. Love them!

funny how they lore the hens over pretebding to find food, then when close enough they jump them XD

I trained my Seabright rooster to fly up on my arm for food he was afraid of other roosters but would attack people trespassing in my yard

Yeah every time I throw them a hand full of scratch he starts clucking " HEY GIRLS LOOK WHAT I FOUND "!!! lol

@@DS-kn4bs My rooster used to cluck like that so to draw them near enough to jump on them! He would use the food I threw down as a bait lure haha

@@rogerd4559 the one I got rapes them 🤦🏻‍♂️ He'll stay on top beating the 💩 out of them, rip feathers out by the dozens, and then stays in top stomping them. He'll ether be traded for another rooster or become dinner.

ear Creek Woodworking , Really ? Well , try this . Eliminate all of the human roosters from your human flock and see what happens. You know don't you ? Your human flock will go extinct ! It is the same with chickens. No rooster and your flock of hens will die off until you have no flock !

You honestly thought roosters had no purpose? That's really sad and ignorant.

James Furey you have no idea instead waffling dribble crap , it’s been mentioned so many times what roosters do for a flock and the character of it and how it functions. You truely are a breed of stupidity .

@@dande-lions What do you expect in a society that teaches than fathers are only good for a paycheck when raising children. And that a single mother is to be honored and that she can do it all.

chickens clean your yard of insects I never had an ant problem until I lost my chickens to damn raccoons

GR. Hollman I agree. Mine would eat out of my hand. That requires you to get down to their level and give them some bugs or treat foods. They’ll love you forever. Funniest sight to see two hundred chickens come running down the hill when mommy comes home!!!

@@1MSally1965 How delightful Sally! They are great little companions. ☺🐥🐔🐤

I had a rooster named "Chauncey" that used to watch sesimy street while laying on his back in my lap. I sometimes would wake to him gooming my eyebrows and facial hair

@jake filmore Idk. Why dont u go ask them

I do too

I have chicken for the first time. I lost 5 to a possum, but still had 10 chickens. One turned out to be a rooster. I put 23 eggs in the incubator and hatched out 9. I didn’t do anything right, and was so excited to get 9 more chickens. Can’t wait to see how many are hens. I have 2 roosters so any of the 9 are roosters will be put in the freezer

LOL! Most towns ban roosters and if you have one they confiscate him and fine you.

Lol

That’s exactly why my city forbade is from having roosters. Only chickens were allowed

Brent Carrington Yep. That was my town

Amen

Panzer Blitz it also cuts down their years of production. If you want more eggs that's fine, but you need to replace hens every other year...

Panzer Blitz And most importantly, they don't need a male to do it... Just the extended light, proper nutrition, and a clean, warm coop. While people 'believe' that having a male around ups egg production, the scientific fact is that it's simply not true. If it were, you'd see roosters at egg production farms.

John Williams Bullshit! I have the same flock that's SEVEN years old! I keep daily records of their egg production. Just because of your comment, I grabbed the calendars and did the quick math. They have produced pretty much the same amount every year (peaked at years four and five). I've sold my eggs for years to the local bakery, and they've always complimented me on the fact that it's obvious that my birds are incredibly healthy. You do NOT need to replenish hens every couple of years. You need to take good care of the ones you already have.

Tracy Harlow-Cummings no disrespect, but you're wrong

Ok, Tracy you're just an idiot! Most chickens only live seven years, and damn sure don't lay consistently throughout that life span. I don't need to prove anything to your dumb ass, anyone can research my claims...Google will prove my point!

Karen Hernke how are they going??

having fun? I got mine this year, love them so much.

GOOd luck and enjoy I had one of each type of breed for a while from old English to Cornish to seabrights to Silkys to Black Manorkas, rode island reds, barred rocks, silver leghorns. red Junglefowl. They were beautiful like walking flowers

the most exciting I think is, when your fertile eggs start to hatch and your children get to witness that new life fighting its way into the world as it breaks through the shell

So much enjoyment from chickens! Enjoy! They love you hanging out with them. Bring them kitchen scraps, etc...they do tricks. Fun!

If they bit off tge neck and head it was probably a raccoon. That's the way they kill. I raised 65000 broilers and had a coon killing my chick's and broilers. Finally got the rascal with a fan to keep air stirring in the chicken house. Cost me $400.00 to replace the fan but got the coon.

we need videos of that it would make for wonderful viewing! Did the fox drop the hen?

I can already hear that sound 🤣

I ended up with 2 roosters that were supposed to be hens. I bought some no-crow collars on Amazon for a few dollars. They will still crow if someone comes near their run, who they don't recognize, but it is a soft crow, quieter than the hens after they lay an egg. It's hilarious when you first put the collars on them. They run backwards trying to get out of it, and dance around for a little while. After that it doesn't bother them. I live in town, so it's either the collar or being rehomed.

Sounds like your chicken pen to close to your house!

Sunday roast

We live in suburbia with a total of seven units on either side of us. Having eight silkies our roo has his feathers full , but we were concerned with all the neighbours about that with his crowing early in the morn we'd get complaints. A collar didn't work, so I built a sin bin out of 12 hay bails with a large internal cavity and black plastic as a water proof floor . I've also covered the lot in black plastic to keep the sin bin waterproof. One of the bails serves as a door, so when Duke ( he walks like John Wayne) crows in the morning he gets put into the sin bin, works great like a sound proof room. Comes a more respectable time of the day like 8am he's out and back with his girls. No complaints so far from the neighborhood.

God bless you, Tom.

As he says they will be for meet lol. God is cruel

@@probliss2193 God is cruel but humans are more cruel

Joe King i have a couple " sweaters" 1 of them put up a fight with a small hawk and put a whoopin on em'

My seabright rooster died to protect my property. H thought he was a pitbull

Depends on breeds and temperamanets. My boys are so docile I only need 2 hens per rooster at most, plus their Polish so their half blind. I add extra Roo security and have no issues with overworked hens =P Now if you got some RIR Roosters forget about, I would recommend 1 Roo to 20 hens on that one haha. Just my personal experience

@@cryptolegend6803 my polish were pretty docile as well dont ever remember them fighting, but would cut back their spurs just in case

Usually the roosters do die because they cannot defend against any predator. Secure coops and livestock guardian dogs are the only "protection" that works. Ive been doing this for 40 years and don't loose any birds nor have any attacks because the predators don't have access to my chickens even during the day when they free range because of the guardian dogs. They also have quarters in the coop at night. Also sink the chicken wire 2 feet into the ground around the run helps.

Awww... God bless you.

A shotgun'll discourage a chicken-thievin' hawk...

StuckinTheCity exactly. We ( my kids and I) now know the call my boy will call out if there is a predator on the property. Last night was a local / feral cat that had been hanging around. Gandalf ( my roo) was pissed and kept parading around until said threat was gone.

So sad😭 One of my 6 chickens got attacked by a hawk ... She ran under a rose bush and a metal fence I had there fell on top of her gosh! That saved her bc When I walked by there not knowing...the hawk saw me and flew away. He tried hard to get hwr but cldnt bc of the fence on top . 🙌🏽My poor girl was in shock. I thought she was dead. I rushed with her inside and gave her some water. She drank and came back! She was shaking so scared. I held her for a while till she knew she was completely safe and she slept inside in our house that night. So she lived! No hurt at all. I Dont let them go out alone anymore. I hate this hawks😖😓😤but I cant have a ruster even Im in the country. We have that rule where we live😏😑

StuckinTheCity it sounds just like hhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwk. I do that sound all the time now.

the chickens are much less nasty to one another when a male is present.