As promised in an earlier entry, I am going to share my flock of chickens I have in my backyard. Today I will start with the head of the flock and that is the rooster. He is a beautiful bird and was born in May 2006; the day my youngest son graduated from high school. He is so friendly. At night I pet him after he gets on the roost. His name is Rooster, like Rooster Cogburn from the John Wayne movie.
Head Rooster
He rules the coop at our house. In our coop we have five hens, two upcoming babies, and Rooster. Right now I have one nesting on no eggs whatsoever. I don’t understand that ritual but I am not a bird so what do I know. We have one hen, an Aracuana that lays green eggs. When I post a photo of her I will also post a photo of her egg. When we first got the bird that was the first green egg I had ever seen.
Let me tell you the story on how the birds came to be in our backyard. My husband attends an animal auction on Thursday evenings. They have birds, chickens, roosters, rabbits, geese, ducks, peacocks; you name they have it. Everytime he attended I asked him to bring me home some quail. At this time we had no animals in our backyard except a dog.
One day I arrived home from a business trip and I was in the kitchen and heard a rooster crow. I ran out the back door and there was a rooster and three hens. That was in 2005. We have been through the first set of animals and have gotten babies and raised a few and lost a few. The first rooster died. He was beautiful also in a different way. He was all white with a dark green/black tail. Another hen died not too long ago and since then I bought two more.
I will share photos of my flock of chickens as days go by. I enjoy backyard chickens as much as watching wild birds.
Until tomorrow, Carole
Additional info 4-8-08: We’ve Moved! Come visit us at our new location http://www.fowlvisions.com. We are moving the rooster and all, so be sure to stop in!
Hello,
Beautiful bird, what type is he? I want to get some chickens, but I would like to have some really pretty ones, like this rooster.
Thank you,
Penny
He is a cross breed between a light brahma rooster and a black sexlink hen. He and his father have the best disposition. I have never had a mean rooster yet but I have heard stories.
Thanks for asking and good luck in your search. Locally we have a lady we buy full breeds from and once I get a bigger coop and am able to keep the roosters separate I plan on bringing in a different variety of birds.
I think his name should be Chanticleer (Chaucer’s rooster) He’s a beauty.
I came across your rooster pic using Google. I think this is a beautiful rooster. My sister has chickens and I am creating a woodburning of a rooster for her. I would like to use this photo as a basis.
What a beautiful rooster! I came across your blog as a result of using google to find some images of a rooster. Your’s came up right away.
A few cyber friends are doing an art project called A2Z… we go through the alphabet and paint or draw something for each letter of the alphabet. I’ve reached the letter R and ‘rooster’ came immediately to mind. Some of them are so colorful! And that’s how I came across your blog. And its a nice one, too. I’m getting ready to go check out the rest of it.
I love your story on your chickens and roosters. Thank you for sharing it. I used to have my own chickens and roosters which had babies and made much more, then we had to separate the roosters and give each one their own hens. But, we moved and where we moved, I could not have them anymore, so I gave them away to a man who promised not to kill them. I think about them alot. Maybe one day, we will move to an area where I can raise chickens and roosters again.
Kathy
He is absolutely GORGEOUS!!! I love him so much that I am ordering some black sex link pullets and one light brahma rooster so I can try to hatch one like him!
Nice looking rooster, but if you get a broody hen with no eggs under her, you need to stop this behavior or it can actually kill her eventually. If you have other chickens laying, slip a few of them under her, and she will hatch them for you! Good luck!
I went to your web page off of Google and have a couple of questios. My first question is We have one, also but we got him at a later time in his life and woundering if he looked like yours with a bright red waddle. His is older red looking so I gusses I’m asking do you know about how old he might be. My Second question is how old is to old to breed them. My final qetion is do we sepate them from the eggs or do we wait until we see babies. We have him in a coop with three RhodeIsland red hens. They have became a part of the family. And would love to see my kids faces when we have babies.
Thank you,
Rudys MOM And DAD.
Absolutely beautiful!
I hope you don’t mind; I captured a picture to put with the poem I just put up on my site.
If you don’t want it there, please let me know and I’ll remove it, but it is so pretty.
It doesn’t look like my landlady’s rooster, but he’s beautiful too – he wouldn’t allow me to get a picture of him . . . .
I got tired of tracking his messes in my place and shoo him away, so he avoids me; for some reason, he likes to hang around my car and leaves his messes there for me to find when I go to my car at night.
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That’s the most beautiful rooster I had ever seen!!!
I liked your rooster so much that he is becoming the star of a painting
my rooster are crazy when i was taking out the trash the chaesd me
Your rooster is gorgeous! It is such a detailed picture of the whole rooster. I would like to ask your permission to let me draw and watercolor it. I will get some copies made and send you if you would like. If this is ok with you just send me how to mail it to you when my painting is finished. Thanks, Marilyn