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⌈ Secret Post #3970 ⌋

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Comments

Argh

[(Anonymous)]

At this rate I’d be willing to pay $200 to ship my accidental rooster to someone who wouldn’t kill him, eat him, or use him for cockfighting. On the other hand, most farm sanctuaries are at capacity for roosters, and one of the farm sanctuaries that takes roosters requires that you also give them all your hens (because “splitting up families is immoral”), buy a $350 coop from Home Depot, pay a couple hundred bucks on surrendering them, and pay for their food for the rest of their lives.

It was legal 5 years ago to have roosters here, dammit, and it’s not like I wanted one, but now that the hatchery fucked up and I’ve got one, I want him to have the same quality of life my hens will: food, shelter, space to roam, treats, kindness, and vet care when they need it, even if they all live 16+ years like Scruffy, my hen who hadn’t laid an egg for years and spent the last year of her life as basically a housepet. I have pictures of her on the couch next to the dog. Beetlejuice deserves a good home, and I’m afraid of what’ll happen if I can’t find him one soon.

Re: Argh

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who has gone through a fair bit of personal suffering for pets, I understand how you feel, even though I personally hate roosters and kind of want someone to turn yours into sandwiches.

Re: Argh

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT—do you hate them because they’re noisy or because they can be mean? Mine has hit the five month mark and will occasionally chase one of the hens to try to mate with them even though none of them are laying eggs yet (and I don’t think he’s been successful either) but he’s never chased or bit me. But then, once I realized he was practicing crowing I started picking him up and carrying him around, so I don’t think he’s gonna mess with people.

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

Just the noise, really.

Some roosters are OK, I guess. But when I was little, we rented rooms from a family with a pet rooster. He wasn't completely insufferable, but he crowed all day. Granted, I now realise he was the only bird in the house and probably lonely.

Re: Argh

[dani_phantasma]

Oh wow I hope your pets find good homes!

Re: Argh

[(Anonymous)]

At the very least, I hope you got a refund from the hatchery. If not, get a new hatchery. One of the rescue shelters around here takes all kind of pets -- they end up with chickens a lot. Maybe see if there's someplace in your area that's similar? You could see if there's a college with an ag sci or ag vet program near you or call your local 4-H chapter.

Re: Argh

[(Anonymous)]

Our local 4h chapter is inundated with people who enroll their kids in 4h to get around rooster restrictions so they have enough to run cockfighting rings—otherwise, even in the county, where there’s not a blanket ban like in the city, if you have less than an acre you can only have, I think, 4 roosters. There are no local ag schools. The school across from my house has a garden and chickens, but roosters aren’t allowed in the city, period.

The zoo used to have roosters with small harems of hens wandering around, right alongside the peacocks, but they’ve been gone for awhile, probably since 2012 when roosters within city limits were outlawed in return for letting people keep 5 hens with no permit and no offset from property lines. With 15 feet of offset people can keep 15 hens, which is what I have.

And yes, the hatchery refunded my $20, just enough to buy a rooster collar that he figured out how to take off in a day. My vet is asking her chicken-keeping friends who live in the county if they’ll take him and not eat him, my best hope at this point is one of them says yes.

Re: Argh

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh, that sucks. I hope one of your vet's friends comes through.