Give a Cheer
The New Boy In The House
My good old rooster Joe hurt his leg a while back, and over the past few weeks he just got progressively more lethargic and miserable. The foot was obviously painful, and even though I could not find any physical injury, it became clear that I needed to end his suffering. I did that today.
My neighbors up the road were taking a bunch of their surplus birds to the sale this afternoon -- it's supposed to get really cold this weekend and they don't have enough inside coop space -- so I drove over to talk to them about getting one of their roosters before they went to the sale. Nat said, "let me pick you out a good one. What kind of hens do you have?"
This young, handsome boy is about a year old. The hens aren't really quite sure what to make of him, but they're eyeballing him like a bunch of junior high girls ogle-eyed at a cute new boy in school. And since he's never been around hens before, he's not totally sure what to make of them either, but he's checking them out like a young boy with a serious case of puppy love.
He's pretty handsome, and I'm pretty sure he'll work out, but he's got some HUGE spurs to fill if he's going to win the hearts of my hens the way Joe did. He's just not cool - at least not yet. Right now, he's just young.
He needs a name, and I'm thinking I might call him Lucky, since he so very much WAS.
10 minutes longer and he'd have been on his way to the fowl sale - where young roosters make good stew birds. There were 11 other birds in his shipping crate, and he's the one that Nat selected for me, making his chances about 8% of getting out of a one way ticket to the stew pot. And instead of being stew, he's got HENS. How lucky is HE?
Yeah. Lucky. MISTER Lucky.
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