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If you have been reading my blog, you should have read my post about Rooty the wimpy rooster. This is another story about him. By the way, he has started to crow but he is still a bit afraid of the other roosters and some hens.

The other night, my wife and I went to the chicken barn to close in all the chickens for the night. When we went into the barn, Rooty was on the roost with a couple of the smaller hens. One of the older hens from last year was pecking at the younger hens. We watched Rooty take his wing and wrap it around the little hens to protect them from the older hen. We tried to get the camera but as luck would have it, the batteries were dead.

I have never seen such a thing from a rooster. I have seen hens protect their own young but never seen a rooster shield some younger chickens before. It was so cute and though Rooty is still not tough, he showed that maybe he is a protector of the weak. That is the joy of raising chickens, you get to discover new and interesting things everyday.

Rooty is a pure Araucana and he will be the only rooster I am keeping from this years chickens. I have listed some of the other roosters on Craigslist and I will be sending what I do not sell to the freezer via the axe.

Like the cute story of Rooty? Leave a comment to share you own chicken stories!

Well the days of the little chicks are just about gone. I just purchased my last bag of grower feed and starting next week I will put them all on layer bits. The culling of the roosters went great and I learned a lot. We ended up slaughtering five Roosters which gave us an abundance of meat for seven people. I ended up giving away a whole chicken to my brother in law.

The plucking was not bad and I learned that between 142 degrees and 145 degrees was the ideal for scalding. One of them we scalded at 132 degrees and we ended up with a lot of pin feathers to scrap out. The meat was very tasty. It was a little on the tough side but we think that was from the muscles because our roosters are free range and get lots of exercise.

Getting rid of the five roosters have calmed down the flock a lot. There is a lot less fighting and when there is a scrap, it is just minor and not deadly. I have about ten more roosters that I am going to either sell or cull because I am only keeping the hens for eggs. I might keep Rooty (the wimpy rooster) because he is not related to any of the rest but I am not sure.

Well that is all from my chicken raising for now. Have some chicken stories to share? Please drop me a comment or two.

Today was the first of the culling for the season. We slaughtered and dressed five Roosters today. It was the first time I actually did the killing and cleaning. My cousin Kenny came over and taught me how to gut them and dress them. I was trying to bring a little calm to the chicken yard by eliminating some of the more aggressive Roosters.

My sister and her husband are coming for a visit so we are planning a big chicken barbecue tomorrow. We split the chickens in half and are marinating them in a sauce called State Fair dressing. The roosters were just under 16 weeks so they should have a great taste.

One of the parts of today I did not want to do was to kill the hen I told wrote about a few days ago that the dog attack. The first two days after the attack it seemed fine; however, either it was attacked by the rest of the chickens or it ended up with an infection because it could not get up. I separated it for a couple of days to try and save it but it was getting worse. I hate to see any animal suffer so I put it down today.

That’s it for now from the chicken coop. Please feel free to drop me a comment or two!

This has been my first year raising chickens from chicks. As you may know from my previous posts, I had several chicks hatch out this year and now they close to maturity and the roosters are driving me crazy. I had to rescue Rooty my wimpy Aracauna Rooster last weak but now they have found a few other targets to abuse. The roosters will get one of the wimpier roosters and pin them down and just attack till they draw blood.

I decided yesterday to let them all run in the larger pen to see that will alleviate the problems. This has not helped and they are still attacking the weaker ones. Yesterday, I had to rescue Rooty again because they had him pinned under the block I use for the water container. Tonight I separated another wimp into his own cage.

I have decided it was time and Saturday I will be slaughtering at least four roosters for a chicken barbecue on Sunday. I am culling off the wimpier ones except my pet Rooty and I am culling at least one of the more aggressive ones. I am hoping that once the wimpier ones are gone, the other ones will at least fight back so they will settle down some. I will let you all know how it goes.

Anyone else every have the same problems with a group of roosters? Please share your experience.

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Yesterday my wife turned her back for a few seconds to fill up the water dishes for the chickens and one of our hens flew over the fence. My chow chow (the one on the header) attacked the poor chicken. By time I got out of the barn my wife was screaming and the dog had a mouth full of feathers.

The chicken disappeared and I was not sure if it was seriously hurt or not. There were feathers everywhere but no sign of any blood. I waited and later in the afternoon when I checked on the eggs, there was the hen back in the chicken barn. She seemed to be ok except she is missing all her tail feathers and her back feathers.

She is the only one that flies out of the pen and I am not sure why because the pen is quite large with plenty of weeds and grass to eat. I guess maybe she will learn her lesson and stay where she belongs. As for the dog, he is spending a whole lot more time in jail (his chain link dog pen).

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Yesterday I had to do a rescue of one of my roosters. It is a pure Aracana rooster and he is a wimp. One of the other roosters from this year’s batch attacked him and had him pinned under a board in the barn. I had to break the board free to free him. I decided to take him out of the same area as teh new chcikens and put him with last years’ hens. He got beat up by them too.

He is a beautiful rooster but he has no courage. He tried to get back in with this years chickens so I decided to try it and three of the chickens attacked him really bad. I had to take it out again and put back with the hens. He seems healthy and is quite big but I am not sure why they are all picking on him. I had already decided prior to this that he was the one rooster I was keeping to breed with but now I am not sure. I will have to see if he starts to get along with the next couple of weeks. He is 14 weeks old so maybe he will get some courage as he comes into his own.

On the note of roosters, I am hearing another crow from the barn so I will soon be able to confirm at least two roosters plus the one I rescued which is not crowing yet but has a definite rooster tail. I am counting what I think is