Sid Vicious, our Golden-Laced Bearded Polish cockerel, now 17 weeks old, is becoming a full-fledged rooster. He started making crowing attempts a week ago much to our entire family's amusement. I could only take some video of him through the coop fence because whenever I walk in, he runs over for treats. He is such a character. (Let me know if the video works. I never have much luck with them. If it says 'no longer available, come back in a bit because it takes some time on You Tube to show up)
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Sid Vicious becomes a Rooster
Sid Vicious, our Golden-Laced Bearded Polish cockerel, now 17 weeks old, is becoming a full-fledged rooster. He started making crowing attempts a week ago much to our entire family's amusement. I could only take some video of him through the coop fence because whenever I walk in, he runs over for treats. He is such a character. (Let me know if the video works. I never have much luck with them. If it says 'no longer available, come back in a bit because it takes some time on You Tube to show up)
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The video worked great for me and that wasn't a bad crow at all - at least to me as an unexperienced rooster person.
He really took out after those hens.
Dan
He is too cool looking. I hope his personality matches his looks! Congrats on your crowing Sid. We love you!
He sounds like he will get the hang of it in now time!! I love his crazy wild rooster hair!! He is very handsome!!
So cute and I think that is a pretty good rooster crow, I'm no expert though. You know I love your chicks.
Awww, what a cute video, :^).
I just noticed, it's really cool how the chickens can go under their coop in that area...
What a nice crow, ;).
I LOVE the sunflowers that are around your chicken coop. Oh, and I think that your hens weren't quite as impressed with Sid as he was with them...lol!!!
Great video! He's sounding pretty good.
Rocker Sid is doing his thing!
I love your sunflowers but I am envious how green your "desert" is. We haven't had rain in weeks and everything is brown!
I love when their crow comes in. It's just like a teenage boy--voice cracking and testosterone.
Yep, it worked for me. What a pretty colorful boy. You will get some interesting chicks from that brood.
Young roosters finding their voice has to be one of the most amusing things! Glad Sid has found his with gusto!! :)
Hey Twinville, I read your blog on my reader because I have dial up and it takes it so long to load a lot of the blogs. When I saw Sid Vicious, I thought he looked just like our bad boy rooster that we ordered as a Golden Polish. We thought he was lookin unusually big,... bigger and meaner than the other Polish Chickens. (he attacked and killed a Silver Polish Rooster).
After seeing your rooster and comparing him to mine, bad boy is definetly a Golden Laced Bearded Polish instead of the regualr Golden Polish.
I guess I will have to order him some hens now.
My husband kept saying that bad boy had different markings and feathers than the other Golden Polish.
I so glad Sid is nice.
Pam
Hi Dan,
Thanks. He surely is growing into his crow. The chicken he was chasing was actually the other roo. A silky roo to be exact. So far they don't battle each other because the silky roo never challenges Sid. Hopefully the status quo will remain that way.
Awww, you're so sweet Mim. He is quite a character, too.
Hi Andrea,
Yeh. Isn't his roo hair crazy! It just makes me smile every day :)
Grey Horse Matters,
I know. I'm glad you do. I love sharing them with you. :)
Hi Mel,
Thanks! When I designed our henhouse I knew I wanted a 'cubby space' for the chickens to be able to get out of the weather (rain, snow, shade) and to keep the house up high so rodents, snakes or other varmits would be kept out, too.
Hi Melanie,
Thanks for the comments. My husband loves those sunflowers, too. They really seem to soften the chicken coop, especially since it's right beside our house. My 5 yr old daughter and I planted the sunflower seeds together.
And yeh, the hens mostly ignore Sid for now. They seem to think I'm the roo and always follow me around everywhere. hehe
Hi Farmer Jen,
Thanks! :)
Hi SugarCreek stuff,
Rocker Sid? I love it!
Sorry about your dry spell. It's been raining here almost on a daily basis for over a month. And it's been cold, too. Did I mention we live in a desert state? Crazy!
CeeCee,
I like your comparison to a teenage boy. Funny!
Hi Goatgirl,
Glad you like him. We have no intention to 'breed' him for chicks because we always harvest all of the eggs and it doesn't seem that any of our hens go broody for more than 2 weeks at a time. Plus we don't need anymore chickens! haha!
Hi Wrensong Farm,
Thanks for visiting. And I agree. Roosters are new for us and Sid is an interesting fellow for sure!
Hi Pam,
What is a 'reader'? Sorry about the slow picture loading, but I do think it's neat that we have the same breed of rooster. These Polish roos sure get handsome in such an exotic way, don't they?
So, you are planning on breeding them? For sales? Do you have other polish hens right now?
Did Bad Boy kill any other roosters on the farm?
Wow! What drama! hehe
Thanks again for stopping by my blog and leaving such nice comments :)
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