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.
You know how roosters are...Just like Laz...They’ll hit anything...;^)
I like his wings... they’re real puffy... and I wonder if its a practitioner of Rex Kwon Do...
Roasting rooster?
One that can be toilet trained, hopefully!
A great movie.
Ronnie is certainly a pretty bird!
I think you are correct. But it looks like a cross breed with a miniature breed....................
Some farms birds definitely have personalities similar to regular household pets.
We had several turkeys we raised from chicks and about 4 of them decided they were pets and we treated as such. We still have 1 of those toms and he will follow you around a like a dog while your working on the farm.
We also have a roster that is blind in 1 eye that receives similar treatment.
They just want to hang out...
Turkeys.....the mellow hippies of farm animals.
The guy’s name is Sanders? Maybe he’s a Colonel?
It’s a Laced Wyandotte. (’Why-an-dote’) They come in a number of colors. Looks like it may be a Bantam rooster becuase he’s pretty small.
I knew an older couple in Indiana who had a small horse ranch, and they were also “adopted” by a rooster. The husband took the rooster around to their neighbors, who took one look and said, “Oh no! That isn’t mine!”
Eventually, his wife said that the rooster was probably lonely, “so we should get him *a* chicken to mate with”. And the rooster proceeded to mate with the chicken so much that it looked like a disheveled ball of feather. And the rooster became more and more aggressive.
Finally, an old friend of the husband came to visit. After hearing about the found rooster, he had a look and said, “That’s a game cock! No wonder none of your neighbors admitted to owning it!”
“No,” he insisted, “It’s a Rhode Island Red.”
And then his friend saw the poor, oppressed chicken. It was an easier sell to him that the rooster needed at least half a dozen chickens in his harem, but the man just shook his head. “The wife thinks that more than one would be immoral.”
The epilogue to this was when one of his dogs, who was partially blind, but mean, decided to attack the rooster and was seriously injured by it. After seeing the fight and breaking it up, and patching up his dog, he decided that yes, indeed, his rooster was a gamecock, and he definitely needed more chickens to resolve his anger issues.
The President and Mrs. Coolidge were being shown separately around an experimental government farm. When Mrs. Coolidge came to the chicken yard she noticed that a rooster was mating very frequently. She asked the attendant how often that happened and was told, "Dozens of times each day." Mrs. Coolidge said, "Tell that to the President when he comes by." Upon being told, the President asked, "Same hen every time?" The reply was, "Oh, no, Mr. President, a different hen every time." President: "Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge."
Umm - chicken type rooster?
I got a beautiful rooster once, put him in the coop with my dad’s 80 or so hens. Everything was fine until my dad killed a few hens to eat. After that it took 2 people to get the eggs, one to keep Red busy chasing to protect his hens while the other one quickly gathered the eggs and escape.
I just posted my rooster with hens story, although your’s is more thrilling.
My dad’s favorite hen, Gertrude, was my first drinking buddy.
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