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02-02-2010, 08:09 PM   #1

Edward will be joining us tomorrow.


We have a new cockerel joining us tomorrow, called edward. He is a black pekin and sounds lovely. He has to be rehomed because he was meant to be a girl, he was called Abigail. His owner is not allowed to have cockerels after an agreement with her neighbours, so he needed a new home. We will put him in with Buffy and Silvy, our 2 pekin girls, who came with a hen house we bought. Garcon, who is in with them at the moment, but a bit big, will join the slightly bigger girls. I hope they are all OK with the changes, but I think it is best.

We lost 4 out of 5 cockerels this last year, so will now take in a couple more to give them a chance of a happy life, nobody wants cockerels because of the noise, but we quite like it and the neighbours haven't complained yet.



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02-02-2010, 08:45 PM   #2

Re: Edward will be joining us tomorrow.


IMO it is much nicer to wake up in the morning to a cockerel calling than an alarm clock. We noticed it when we moved here about 15 years ago as our next door neighbours had a bantam cockerel. Took a while to get used to it, but much prefer it now.



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02-02-2010, 09:05 PM   #3

Re: Edward will be joining us tomorrow.


Welcome, Edward! Pics would be nice.

I had a pet chicken when I was a child who turned out to be a cockerel (quite illegally, we didn't know then it was against the law); we found out to my mom's enbarassment when a police officer showed up at the door because a neighbor had complained about the crowing! I rather liked it myself.



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02-02-2010, 09:13 PM   #4

Re: Edward will be joining us tomorrow.


Hope Edward settles in nicely with his ladies. Please post some pics when you can.



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02-02-2010, 09:38 PM   #5

Re: Edward will be joining us tomorrow.


Thats a good name for a cockerel..hope he settles in well. I imagine that lots of people need to rehome cockerels due to the noise thing. You will be overrun.



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03-02-2010, 09:40 AM   #6

Re: Edward will be joining us tomorrow.


Well done for giving him a chance. It's a very sad situation with cockerels. I currently have lots of eggs incubating and will be faced with decisions over the boys when the time comes.



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03-02-2010, 12:29 PM   #7

Re: Edward will be joining us tomorrow.


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Originally Posted by Kazz
Thats a good name for a cockerel..hope he settles in well. I imagine that lots of people need to rehome cockerels due to the noise thing. You will be overrun.
Thats the problem, you can only have so many because they will fight and the hens can get injured with lots of males looking for love, so it becomes a welfare issue. We will hopefully get some ex commercial hens and a couple of unwanted cockerels in the spring, once we move the ducks into their new accomodation.



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04-02-2010, 08:01 PM   #8

Re: Edward will be joining us tomorrow.


meet Edward-





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04-02-2010, 08:54 PM   #9

Re: Edward will be joining us tomorrow.


What a super looking boy! Hope he settles in well farthing.



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04-02-2010, 10:55 PM   #10

Re: Edward will be joining us tomorrow.


What a pretty Edward



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