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[Rob <becida AT comcast.net>]

At  9/21/2008 02:07 PM,April Frazier wrote:

> We used to have a rooster and he used to go after both my husband 
> and my daughter. He would come up and eyeball me especially when I'd 
> pick up one of the girls and they would squawk some.  Then I'd let 
> the chick go and head after him, and he would run! He never took to 
> all the "Mamma love" I dished out.
>
> I stopped hubby from shooting him after he got our little girl 
> because even though the attacked her, she loved him. Then a few 
> weeks later, he got taken by a fox.
>
> April

In Minnesota I bought my first batch of straight run Rhode Island 
Reds from a place (just once). At least 3/4 of those were roosters. I 
looked out back one day and saw a rooster chasing my 4 yr old & she 
was scared. It took me 5 min to catch that rooster, we ate him a 
couple of days later. My daughter was happy.
After that I thinned out the flock and went shopping for some more hens.



Rob
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