Posted on 10/06/2020 8:27:39 AM PDT by Red Badger
“One morning we had the door open letting the dogs come and go and looked up and he was standing in the living room" 👋🐓
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Chaz Sanders and her family were relaxing at home one day in the beginning of September when, out of nowhere, a stray rooster wandered onto their property. Everyone was immediately confused.
“We don’t have any neighbors other than family for about 2 miles so we have no idea how he got there,” Sanders told The Dodo.
The rooster, later named Ronnie, kept his distance at first, but after a few days he decided that this was his new home and he wasn’t going anywhere.
“One morning we had the door open letting the dogs come and go and looked up and he was standing in the living room,” Sanders said.
The family definitely hadn’t been planning on adopting a rooster, but the more they got to know Ronnie, the more they loved him. It quickly became clear that he’d walked onto their property that day for a reason, and that he was meant to be there.
“I instantly fell in love with him,” Sanders said. “I’ve grown up around animals but never had any type of birds/chickens. He follows us around like a dog and loves attention. The first few days he kept his distance and wouldn’t let us touch him but after he came in the house he warmed up, no problem. He basically took over and now does whatever he wants.”
The family also has two dogs, Addy and Merle, and they quickly accepted Ronnie as their new brother. He now has free rein of his new home and does whatever he wants. He isn’t always a fan of following the house rules, though — he’d much rather make his own.
“[He’s] sassy but definitely loyal for a chicken,” Sanders said. “He is a diva and acts like a teenager. He screams if he doesn’t get his way and he will do what you tell him to but it takes you telling him a couple of times.”
Ronnie especially loves hanging out in high places where his family can’t reach him very easily, like the chandelier or the ceiling fan. He may act like a dog, but at his core he’s all rooster, and loves waking his family up as early as possible every day.
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After doing some research on how best to care for Ronnie, his family decided to adopt some other chickens to keep him company. They’ve never owned birds before, but now they have five and they couldn’t be happier about it.
No one has any idea where Ronnie came from or why he chose to wander into the yard that day. His new family is so thrilled he found them, though, and can’t imagine their life without him.
“Definitely meant to be,” Sanders said.
You can follow Ronnie on Instagram.
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Cool!
No but easier than trying to evict.
Perhaps as with cats, his dogs clean up after Ronnie the Rooster.
Looks pretty small on that guys shoulder, so probably a banty. Problem with chickens is that they don’t housebreak....
I’d invite him to Sunday dinner.
Looks like a Welsummer...
He’s a handsome bird.
The dogs are scheming. They are waiting for Ronnie to get a tad bigger before they make him a meal.
Does it have talons?
Welcome to egg farming.
It looks like a cross breed.................
...they got him a couple hens. He was still great but you didn't want to go near his hens.
Maybe you had to be there but this is a great story. I was inside their home one day and I heard the wife scream bloody murder outside in the backyard. I ran outside to see the family dog (who they usually kept away from rooster) chasing Rocky (the rooster) into the woods. I chased them and saved the rooster just as the dog was about to turn Rocky into lunch. But the great part of the story is that apparently the dog got off of her leash and started towards the hens. Rocky saw her approaching and flew right into the dog and then took off the other way to save his hens. He was actually sacrificing himself because if I wasn't there he was about to die. When I grabbed the dog, Rocky scooted back to the hens and ushered then back into their pen. A real hero.
It can catch a delicious bass.
Yeah, probably...
It sure is a beautiful bird. Looks smallish, too.
That being said, after spending a summer in New Hampshire on my brother’s farm, and interacting with the hens and the rooster — I sure wouldn’t want a bird like that in my house.
Maybe in my oven, with a nice herb rub on it’s skin... but that’s another story.
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