Jul 04 2008
Wimpy Rooster
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
Wow, I hadn’t thought of arcanna chickens since I was a kid. I had the blue and green eggs chickens when I was in grade school. I suppose now if I had some chickens, I would have some banty roosters, and I would continually plucking them for fly hackle.
Sorry to hear about your hen-pecked rooster, pardon the pun :). One of my four two-month old chicks is an Ameracauna rooster. He has the looks of being beautiful, no tail, black with a green sheen. Can’t wait to see what he looks like as he grows. Anyway, I hope he doesn’t turn out to be a wimp. I’m going to keep mine separate because I know the main rooster will attack to kill if he could.
I think the Americauna is a bigger breed because I just seen some at the fair and they were huge.
The roosters are out of control right now!