Rural Gardening: What kind of roosters do I have?, 1 by fleursdefouquet

fleursdefouquet wrote:
We had a traumatic evening. All three roosters showed up behind the house at dusk - my theory is for protection. - they have been sleeping on the front porch. Maybe they thought the dogs (inside a fenced yard) would scare away a predator. They sat on the fence a while then came in the courtyard and looked around. Dewey and Louie tried to roost in a tall ligustrum shrub but there wasn't room for them. Hewey, for some reason, flew into the dog yard. Yes......it was horrible.......our dobi/lab mix, Sugar, grabbed him and ran off. My DH got him away from Sugar but his neck was broken and he didn't live long. Dewey and Louie were traumatized. They went to his body and didn't know what to do. Hewey had been the alpha rooster. They are now back on the front porch and we have all the exterior lights turned on. Ugh! I hope they make it through the night.

I'm not sure I want to do this chicken thing. If they aren't smart enough to stay out of the dog yard they will all be killed for sure. Even with a coop they would be let out during the day - the reason we got them was to eat ticks.

This is just moments before Hewey was killed.