roosters

[luker3232]

anyone know where to get one(in houston or internet, average price, expeirience? akward pet yes i know.

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[BWSmith]

I picked up some live 2-3lb roosters from a livestock auction recently for $3-$5 each.

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[luker3232]

Live? im pretty sure you mean live.

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[spix14]

A feed store, maybe.

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[BWSmith]

Originally Posted by luker3232

Live? im pretty sure you mean live.

That is why I said "live".

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[luker3232]

haha im not reading good today

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[Hartsock]

go to reptile show or farm show and buy some chicks. Not sure if you can tell the sex from how little they are, but get 6 or 8 and take a gamble. That way they can be familiar with you as they grow because a full grown rooster or a young rooster (almost said "young male rooster" lol) can have a pretty nasty attitude. Then you'll have some hens (if you get more then one rooster --- guess what's for dinner?) and end up with a supply of eggs. Trust me, a rooster is going to need some hens, or you are going to be that release for that aggression, if you know what I mean.

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[John_E_Dove]

Drive up here. I have 14 yearling roosters I'll be butchering in a couple of weeks. I'd have no problem giving one away.

[Lucille]

We were REALLY unhappy with a neighbor who got some chicks for her daughters one year and one turned out to be a rooster. For over a year that bird woke us all at dawn. Finally she took the chickens and rooster to a home in the country,

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[luker3232]

thanks, my neihgbors got one

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[Hartsock]

Originally Posted by Lucille

Finally she took the chickens and rooster to a home in the country,

Meaning that supper that night was "finger lickin good!"

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[boaterr]

I have kept 3 young hens for 2 weeks. They are pretty interesting animals especially when they beg for food. I even thought about keeping the bunch but then I looked at my hungry retic and I knew what had to be done

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[John_E_Dove]

Originally Posted by Lucille

We were REALLY unhappy with a neighbor who got some chicks for her daughters one year and one turned out to be a rooster. For over a year that bird woke us all at dawn. Finally she took the chickens and rooster to a home in the country,

They slept in that late? Mine generally start crowing around the time I get up or any time something wakes them in the middle of the night.

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[BWSmith]

My retic LOVES roosters. I went to the livestock auction and got like half a dozen or so. I did not get home until very late but still had to put them down and package them that night. Come dawn, my wife would have thrown a fit and sent me down with a 9 iron. Even from the crowing and cawing from moving them around my dogs were going nuts. Very pretty birds though. If they weren't food, they would be protected.

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[Lucille]

Originally Posted by John_E_Dove

They slept in that late? Mine generally start crowing around the time I get up or any time something wakes them in the middle of the night.

For years I've awakened around 4-4:30 so most of the time I was up before the rooster started in. Had he started too much earlier, something would have woke him in the middle of the night, ME!

Not to hijack the thread, but my neighbor across the street has a new gf and she visits him. Late. And the dogs bark around 2AM.

He isn't very considerate, he is the same one that lets his dog relieve himself in our yards, but not mine anymore since I took to returning the offering to his front door area.

Hopefully they will find a different schedule.

[Lucille]

Originally Posted by BWSmith

my wife would have thrown a fit and sent me down with a 9 iron. .

I would have bought tickets to that.

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[BWSmith]

Originally Posted by Lucille

I would have bought tickets to that.

Completely off topic. A buddy (not the brightest guy) brought home a 4' gator (mouth secured) at like 3 am and threw it in the tub until morning when he could take it to the display. His wife gets up at 4 am to pee. He gets slung out of bed and onto the floor by one foot at 4:01 am to the sounds of an irate wife. He has to chase a gator down the hallway and tackle it in his underwear fresh out of sound sleep. Not his best demonstration of judgment, but he could have sold tickets.