It turns out that one of the four chicks that we bought at the end of last year is a rooster. Gandalf was starting to make some funny noises similar to the sound of a rooky rooster. My husband was not happy and neither was my son
Gandalf is not a rooster, Gandalf is a female chicken- My son
We had explained to our son that we can not have a rooster in the middle of suburbia and he had many tears trying to come to terms with it.
One of our friends kindly offered to help us deal with Gandalf and I’m very grateful that she suggested and offered one of her hens to replace our rooster. As soon as we told Zachy about the new hen, he immediately cheered up and named the new chook Tenor.
So today our friend who writes Just like my Nan made came to our place and turned our rooster into something that we can now bake. She also arrived with our beautiful new hen called Tenor.
Last Sept we got 8 little chicks from the school (they had them for their Kindy incubator program). We knew we’d end up with roosters. There were three out of 8 so that wasn’t too bad I suppose. Of course we live in Suburbia too so we gave ours away on gumtree. I’m glad you were able to swap yours!
at least you have five hens xxx
We love our chooks, they give more than eggs 🙂
Agreed, although for some reason ours prefer to lay eggs right during church when its message time (we live next door).
they want to join in xx