Drstratton - My Backyard Journey Journal

[thistlebloom]

I'll be interested in how your FBCM's work out. I've had them before and they were the meanest chickens I've ever owned. The roosters were horrible, chasing and beating up the hens. very rough and not gentlemanly at all. The hens were super domineering and always seemed to be picking fights. I got them all from the same breeder though, so maybe it was a lineage thing. I hope yours are nice and work well for you.

 

[drstratton]

I'll be interested in how your FBCM's work out. I've had them before and they were the meanest chickens I've ever owned. The roosters were horrible, chasing and beating up the hens. very rough and not gentlemanly at all. The hens were super domineering and always seemed to be picking fights. I got them all from the same breeder though, so maybe it was a lineage thing. I hope yours are nice and work well for you.

Oh wow...I hope it was just an issue with the breeder not choosing for temperament! One of the Maran hens is definitely more aggressive than the other and she is putting the newbies in their place! We had an extremely mean rooster once and he became chicken & dumplings, hopefully that won't be the case this time!

 

[thistlebloom]

Mine all met their Maker prematurely.

 

[drstratton]

Mine all met their Maker prematurely.

That could happen here too...lol

 

[Baymule]

My mean Easter Egger rooster, as of today, went on vacation to Camp Kenmore.

 

[drstratton]

My mean Easter Egger rooster, as of today, went on vacation to Camp Kenmore.

What's for dinner...Chicken & Dumplin's???

 

[farmerjan]

Glad that you caught the dog, and that he went the sheriff/animal control route. This way you will not feel guilty about him and only feel as you do, feeling sorry for the animal.

 

[SA Farm]

I’m raising up some BCMs for the first time as well. I really hope the lines I have are good tempered. No nasty animals live long around here either. If the hens turn out nice and the roosters are nasty, perhaps I’ll think about getting a legbar or ameraucana rooster to cover them for some olive eggers

 

[drstratton]

Glad that you caught the dog, and that he went the sheriff/animal control route. This way you will not feel guilty about him and only feel as you do, feeling sorry for the animal.

Thank you! Yes, we decided that was the best route! If we didn't take care of it someone else eventually would have! The sheriff was pretty impressed that we were able to trap him and to be honest I wasn't sure it would work, just glad it did!

 

[drstratton]

I’m raising up some BCMs for the first time as well. I really hope the lines I have are good tempered. No nasty animals live long around here either. If the hens turn out nice and the roosters are nasty, perhaps I’ll think about getting a legbar or ameraucana rooster to cover them for some olive eggers

I hope that yours turn out nice and friendly too, mine are kind of standoffish, so hopefully that doesn't mean they will turn out to be good for nothing but the frying pan!
My husband and I were just talking about that! In fact he surprised me by saying that if there were some that we really liked we could separate them and breed them however we want to and I said, yes we could get some olive eggers! So, I have a feeling I will have some green eggs in my future!