He's a chick magnet.

My friends have this rooster who is a real ladies bird. He chases all of the other roosters off the hens. He has a harem of hens and I swear he sees "action" at least 20 times a day. My friends named him Foghorn. They should have named him Randy because he sure is.

Rooster are rapists.
Rape chicken should be their moniker.
Sure, they get it that often, but where is the consent or courtship?
They're dinosaur remnant rape chickens.

a reply to: the owlbear

So I noticed. They're none too gentle about it either. You can tell who the favorite hens are because they're almost plucked bald in places. They say T Rex is related to chickens. I get this image of a giant rooster with no beek but with teeth in my head. I can't imagine how the ground would have shook from all the mating.

a reply to: Skid Mark

My gf wont let me get chickens for that reason. She had them growing up and gets disturbed at their rapey ways. Besides, we have so many little Amish farms within a ten mile radius, we can get fresh eggs without the hassle of having a feathered rapehouse in the backyard.

originally posted by: Skid Mark
a reply to: the owlbear

So I noticed. They're none too gentle about it either. You can tell who the favorite hens are because they're almost plucked bald in places. They say T Rex is related to chickens. I get this image of a giant rooster with no beek but with teeth in my head. I can't imagine how the ground would have shook from all the mating.

It took at least a million years for all of the dinosaurs that we know about to start re/de-volving...whose to say that time wasnt a whole bunch of rapey dinos pounding down the ground with their feet until such time the fossil record "broke".

a reply to: the owlbear

Yeah, they could have gotten the dino version of Viagra and well, you know...

Payback was b!tch for our rapey roo one day when he had his head down eating and our lonely Muscovy drake took a fancy to rapey roo's feathered butt.

On the other hand, we had a bantam rooster that slept with his chicks under his wings at night and showed them how to hunt bugs. A real gentleman.

a reply to: igloo

I bet his crow was extra high pitched that day.

I want some laying hens but no thanks on the rooster! You will still get eggs without them around (but they do offer some protection to the girls).
They can be funny though- we had one named Cogburn who we taught lots of tricks and would hang out with people. He wasn't as bad with the hens as some roosters I've seen but he could still be a jerk at times.

a reply to: the owlbear

Not to mention that roosters are downright mean and aggressive.

My daughter has kept chickens for several years. She has always been leery of the roosters because of their protective nature. But in the last five months she has killed two that attacked her. The last spurred her before she knew it was sneaking up. She suffered a deep ankle puncture wound that required a tetanus shot and some other shot. The wound has not healed quite yet.

The last one was dispatched with a wildly wielded garden hoe. Her husband, watched the spectacle and now lives in fear of her.

I had to stop here and chuckle to myself. From where I come from, this would not be much of a story, but in today's world where few people know of chickens other that from Popeye's Church's, etc., it may give them more of an insight into the other side of chickens that was unknown. Roosters are bad to the bone!

There was some research done on the behavior of roosters. If a rooster sees a predatory bird like an eagle or an hawk, he will seek shelter and sound a warning to all the hens and chicks. If there is another rooster around in the open, he'll just seek shelter. The gain from having a rival eliminated is higher than losing a hen or chick....