Return of the Daily Chicken!
Hey y'all! Our first trio of chookies is getting used to their new home, and I'd like to formally introduce them as an update to my Fundition Proposal.
Their names are Bonnie, Donna, and Clyde the Rooster. They're Cream Crested Legbars, and very cute!
Bonnie is the cutie with a little tan on her.
Donna is more gray, but still just as cute. Lookit their cute little bonnets!
I don't have a pic specifically with Clyde yet, but he and I have been spending a lot of time together. I'm trying to hold him more than the girls so that he'll be used to me and be less aggressive. That's him in the front of the pic at the top. Ain't he purdy? Check out his dad:
Clyde looks a lot like him. I got to see and hold him at the breeder, and oh my goodness. He's a big bird. And pretty docile, too! Today was Clyde's first day crowing. I'll upload a video looking around the forest garden with him crowing as tomorrow's daily chicken. It was exciting to wake up to a rooster crowing. It used to be annoying with our last rooster, but he crowed incessantly and sharper. Being a little bannie, he thought he had a lot to prove (little chicken syndrome). This big boy has nothing to prove.
The reason for a rooster this time around is sustainability. New chickens each spring will equate to long term sustainability and regeneration. As the chicken population expands, I'll be taking steps to expand the forest garden. Not just to accommodate the chickens, but to compound the benefit of the entire system. Compounding regeneration, I suppose. If we reach a point where we can't expand or have too many animals to handle, they'll be listed for sale locally and possibly on Homesteader's Co-op to help cover expenses and expansion. Livestock for sale on the Co-op would be really cool
The birds are currently going between the coop at night and the run in the day time. I need to make the run a little more secure sometime this week, but it is containing them well. The squash plant in the run was one of the volunteers we've found all over the yard. I ran over it with the truck while bringing compost material back. The birds are still pretty timid, and I haven't seen them going after it. They still don't equate me with food I don't think. They'll get it though. The reason for the coop and run at this stage is to get the chickens used to this being their home. That's how I did it with the old flock, and it worked well. Adding chickens to a new space without them knowing that it is home can cause them to wander off in search of a new place to hunker down. Once they're established here, they'll live in the forest, and the run will be taken down. All that material will be repurposed or sold.
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Those little hairdos are just the cutest.
Gosh, aren't those little roosters such annoying crowers! The shrill crow goes right through you and then they feel the need to repeat it incessantly!! My big boy has a beautiful, crow and rarely uses it. Admittedly he has been trained not to crow once I bring him our for the day, but if he does then its not as easily noticed and doesn't deafen you when you're right next to him.
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Ok, I'll bite: How does one train a rooster not to crow?
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Lol!
He does crow, but only in the morning in his box, which is his bed. I bring him in at night, so he doesn't upset the neighbours, then he goes out around 9am once he's finished his morning crowing. If he crows while out (which he does maybe once a month) he gets put back in his box, if a cuddle in front of his ladies doesn't do the trick.
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That's amazing! You legit trained him like a dog!
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That is really cool! Did you just figure out this is what he did, or did you do some sort of training when he first started?
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No, we trained him when he first started crowing. It helped that he was never a big crower anyway. For the first year we would get the odd week or two where he'd crow daily, so we'd just keep bringing him back in. The older he's gotten, the less that happens.
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Yeah, that little guy was too much. I'm looking forward to Clyde though. I get to hear him when I get home in a few hours :)
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Looks like things are going well this time around. The rooster's dad sure was handsome.
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He was a really pretty bird. I'm excited to see Clyde grow up. They're getting settled in now. Been scratching and eating well.
Where they lived before was pretty conventional for backyard chicken keeping. Bare soil, clipped wings, no forage. They're gonna have fun here being the best chickens they can be :)
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