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| Susan Hogarth |
 Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:53 am |
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I was 'working at home' yesterday ... so of course I spent half the
day checking the hens to make sure they didn't raid the neighbor's
yard/garden. They were VERY happy to be out during the day, though, as
they've been confined most days since they started roaming to the
neighbor's.
So anyway, I got some pics of them. The handsome-but-evil Sumatra is
easy to photograph (but hard to photograph well) because he thinks
it's his duty to stare me down whenever I'm around. It's also easy to
get him crowing because he always crows when I'm around. He must
really detest me!
http://picasaweb.google.com/hogarth/2007january31Chickens
The vids are best if you hit the resize widget at the bottom right and
set it to play at the size it was taken. The Welsummer and Phoenix
hens are in the pics, but mostly it's the Sumatra and the two blue-egg
'mutts' who are our favorites for their great personalities.
Unfortunately my ongoing squabble with the Sumatra roo has made the
hens more wary of me. I know I should soup him, but he really is very
pretty. He's still young so I keep hoping he'll 'settle in' and stop
being aggressive. If anyone in or near NC, US wants a grumpy Sumatra,
let me know.
- Susan |
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| Omelet |
| Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:17 am |
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In article <1170338022.316447.251990@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com>,
"Susan Hogarth" <hogarth@gmail.com> wrote:
Quote: So anyway, I got some pics of them. The handsome-but-evil Sumatra is
easy to photograph (but hard to photograph well) because he thinks
it's his duty to stare me down whenever I'm around. It's also easy to
get him crowing because he always crows when I'm around. He must
really detest me!
I'd be hard put to kill something that beautiful... <sigh> And I've even
harvested silkie roosters.
Do you have the space to build him his own private pen?
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Peace, Om
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| Susan Hogarth |
| Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:53 am |
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On Feb 1, 9:17 am, Omelet <omp_ome...@gmail.com> wrote:
Quote: In article <1170338022.316447.251...@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com>,
"Susan Hogarth" <hoga...@gmail.com> wrote:
So anyway, I got some pics of them. The handsome-but-evil Sumatra is
easy to photograph (but hard to photograph well) because he thinks
it's his duty to stare me down whenever I'm around. It's also easy to
get him crowing because he always crows when I'm around. He must
really detest me!
I'd be hard put to kill something that beautiful... <sigh> And I've even
harvested silkie roosters.
Yah - he was supposed to be a hen :)
Quote: Do you have the space to build him his own private pen?
You know, that never occured to me! I probably could. I guess my
husband would squawk about depriving him of company... but he is a
nuisance to the hens as much as to us, in many ways.
I would hate to isolate any social creature, though. I'd almost rather
kill him outright...
- Susan |
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| Omelet |
| Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 3:20 pm |
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In article <1170341628.100839.28730@v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>,
"Susan Hogarth" <hogarth@gmail.com> wrote:
Quote: On Feb 1, 9:17 am, Omelet <omp_ome...@gmail.com> wrote:
In article <1170338022.316447.251...@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com>,
"Susan Hogarth" <hoga...@gmail.com> wrote:
So anyway, I got some pics of them. The handsome-but-evil Sumatra is
easy to photograph (but hard to photograph well) because he thinks
it's his duty to stare me down whenever I'm around. It's also easy to
get him crowing because he always crows when I'm around. He must
really detest me!
I'd be hard put to kill something that beautiful... <sigh> And I've even
harvested silkie roosters.
Yah - he was supposed to be a hen :)
Do you have the space to build him his own private pen?
You know, that never occured to me! I probably could. I guess my
husband would squawk about depriving him of company... but he is a
nuisance to the hens as much as to us, in many ways.
I would hate to isolate any social creature, though. I'd almost rather
kill him outright...
- Susan
More than one person has built rooster pens...
and penned several roosters together.
They do just fine without hens, so long as they are out of sight.
Seriously.
Or you could give him one or two more tolerant hens.
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Peace, Om
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