New Roo in the zoo
The new rooster has arrived!
The ladies like him.Actually he spent most of his first day trying to avoid them. They were following him everywhere, grooming his ruff, and generally crowding him. The girls couldn't get enough of him and he just wanted to figure out where he was.
They were just determined to follow him around.He is very handsome as described, with his Copper Maran feathered feet.
He got some peace on the roof of the coop.
We were checking on him frequently during the first day, not knowing whether there would be a bloodbath (there wasn't). Once we both went to the GH and he wasn't there. We looked all over, under boxes, in the corners. He wasn't even in the coop. With nowhere left to look, I lifted the lid on the Silkie coop, saying "Well he can't be in here!" He was. He was in the corner of the coop with one Silkie hen on the other side, probably there to lay an egg. I guess the hens really got out of control.
He's like a member of a royal court, with breeches, buckled shoes, and maybe a rapier.
I thought I might call him Jacques, since when I was driving him home I couldn't remember any lullabies but Frére Jacques. Over and over and over... But I'm not sure it fits.Things have settled down since the first day. He started doing his job, announcing food discoveries and doing a bit of dancing.
He crows a lot. He's got a deep voice. And I've seen him mating a leghorn. But I've seen more unconsummated high-speed chases around the greenhouse.Then the Silkie rooster, one third his size, automatically responds to the sounds of a screaming, running hen. He in his white pint-size majesty comes lumbering over silently, looks at "Jacques", and Jacques runs off to hide behind something. Very funny. I'm real glad that they don't fight at all, but also hoping that this guy will get a bit less timid over time.
He likes to be up high. On the bales, or the coop, or...I was standing in the middle of the GH, bent over at the waist to knock some persistent ice out of a water fount. There was some warning flapping behind me, and the new roo flew up and landed on my back. It was a nice shelf. The times I'm not carrying a camera! When I finished laughing, and messing with the fount, I transferred him to my arm, where he contentedly settled down on my elbow as if to stay a while. He's a big heavy bird. Friendly though.