Re: Free Roosters in Ohio Winter?

Ron Hardin wrote:
Grizzly wrote:

Ron Hardin wrot

Tina

I sort of expected hawks to nail them, taking them to be a protein
source in the winter (though they seem to ignore them so far).
That would be a daytime threat, though.

At night they're always high up in a Maple tree.

Do they need feeding in the cold? Or just snow? They have access
to the normal wild bird leaf-scratching and turning-over food,
whatever it is they find there, in the fence rows and fields.

They do stick together, in spite of minor fight beginnings, and
head out every day with a single mind to go somewhere.

Throw them some cracked corn each day and they should do all right.
Since they were dumped on you there is no obligation to do so. If
you don't want them around, put an add up at the local feed mill
saying free leghorn roosters, you catch and see if someone comes
around to get them.

They're all seven still hanging around, so snow and cold doesn't seem
to have phased them.

I will put it to you one more time. Despite having them dumped on you,
either you feed and shelter them or find them another home. I am sick and
tired of seeing you watch them hang around to see them starve. I am
beginning to think you are trolling and you are one step away from being
killfilled unless I hear that you are doing something sensible about these
cockerels in the next 24 hours. Am I clear?

Tina






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