Re: Rooster battles?

Christina Websell wrote:

"Jill" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ron Hardin wrote:

Animal happiness isn't what you're hallucinating it is.

Christina knows more about animal psychology and physiology than you do.
The content of your posts indicate your ignorance.

There is nothing "fluffbunny" or anthropomorphic about what we are all
saying.
It is simple animal husbandry. Its almost amusing to accuse this
particular group of poultry keepers of not understanding - most of us are
very happy to eat our birds, and are very pragmatic about what they need
and don't.
These are domestic creatures - they bear only a superficial resemblance to
their wild, original ancestors, who were not native in Ohio either.
They have been completely created by man, to be fed and cared for by man.
You took possession of them from the moment you described them as "my".
You asked for advice for "your" cockerels.
You were given good advice from people with a wide breadth of experience.
From your continued posts you have ignored all the advice and from the
content of the posts you have not taken on board any of it and you are now
a direct cause of suffering to those birds.
It is that which no-one can stomach here. It is not necessary and you no
longer have the excuse of ignorance.


The roosters have to take "the consequences of their actions" Which is
what? Getting dumped?
I can't join in this thread any longer, because I will just go mad and make
a spectacle of myself.
Anyone who has an animal or bird dumped on them has a duty of care.

dumped

Hunting for, finding, food. They have a regular routine.
They're not cooped up. They're not bored.

They have a need, and the fill it, every day.

They dive for cover when an airplane goes over low enough to be a hawk.

They judge the distance to the neigbor's golden retriever, and keep a wary
eye out for that too.

So much going on in their little minds.

Much of where they go I don't know. They're out of sight for hours,
but always come back to the maple tree.

Furthermore they've had a couple months of easy living to practice,
when bugs ruled the lawns and were found in any square foot you studied,
to a gradual need to look under pine needles and leaves.

A neighbor's bird feeder has seeds under it that they sometimes pick up
but often leave alone. Evidently they're finding better food someplace
else.

It seems to me that they're eating grass, but I don't know.

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