Not very often that I get to feed Bo’s chickens and ducks, I had to take care of them several weeks back. He feeds them twice a day, morning and afternoon so it was a busy weekend for me. The last time I feed them was during the winter when he had to go out of town for a funeral in Canada. The winter weather was harsh, I was sick but I certainly felt worse for the chickens and ducks having to stay outside in the cold. This time it’s in the Summer so it wasn’t so bad, I had to take care of them for 3 days. The first feed I got attacked by the rooster, it’s almost comical and I went out to get my camera and thought I would take some photos for Bo to see. When I got back he greeted me by the front gate, if looks could kill!
Then he proceeds to come toward me, I’m shaken in my boots at this time but determine to get some photos.
Then he attacked me, he is one mean fighting rooster. He pecked through my jeans and gave me 4 bruises and took out some skin. At this time I was extremely worried, not sure how I would go in and feed the chickens and ducks.
I kept my distance, and he kept his watchful eyes over me, certainly not in a good way.
I called Bo and he was hysterically laughing, he said that he should have warned me about the rooster. It is a fighting rooster bloodline from Thailand. He told me to bring in a net and he will leave me alone. My only weapon at this point is a fishing net, and sure enough he stayed away from me for the rest of the weekend.
The rest of the chickens and ducks are real nice
Even the mean looking ones are nice.
She is nesting, we have some hatched this week.
The rooster is the least of our worry right now, there is something that has been coming into the coop at night and eat the inside organ of the chickens and ducks. It has been killing 1 and sometimes 2 per night, and so far Bo has lost over 10 chickens and ducks and mostly females since they are weaker and couldn’t fight off the predator. The coop is secured, it’s fenced in and has net above so not sure how it got in. At this point, we thought it might be a weasel and have set a trap out for it.
Nye Noona 
Hope you catch whatever is killing your chickens and ducks…
It’s a raccoon, and apparently, that thing is smarter than me. 😦
What a story, Nye ! I am happy you could escape this fighting rooster. You were great to take pictures of this situation. Good pictures you shared. Did you find out what the predator was ? How terrible !
Hi Isa, I was crazy to even attempt to photograph the rooster. It’s warming up to me now since I have to feed them a lot and still carrying my net around. We found out it was a raccoon and I’m working on securing the fence but not doing a good job right now. I will have to come up with a more permanent solution.