Rooster Round Up

Oh my goodness, last Spring I was given a chance to bring agriculture in my classroom, so I took it! My friend, Daphne, brought me a chicken incubator and 24 fertilized eggs. No big deal, they sat in my classroom doing their thing, while I did my thing; and then one day they started hatching. They were so cute, but yet so stinky. I keep them around in my classroom while they grew and grew and finally they were out-growing their space. I took them to Roseville where they got their own special living quarters custom made. Well, as they grew they got noisy and mean. They seamed crowded, so I started taking some of them, two and three at a time, up to the ranch. I targeted the roosters to go up to Auburn, leaving behind the girl chickens-egg layers. It wasn't too long before I had at least 16 Roosters up in Auburn. After all this crazy-iness has gone on for months finally enough was enough, time for the rooster madness to stop. The darn roosters crowed all the time from sun up to sun down, middle of the night and even the middle of the day. A few Roosters got out of their cages and eventually lost their lives, one beautiful Rooster was able to live outside his cage, he is still free to roam about. But the other Roosters that were moved into the big cage (dog kennel) wouldn't leave each other alone. So I called Daphne and asked her if the guy that she got the eggs from wanted the Roosters back. He did! Yes, so yesterday I got a bunch of cardboard boxes and rounded up all the caged roosters, and the turkin! The turkin is a cross between a turkey and a chicken. It took some doing but all the rowdy roosters were loaded up. The turkin broke the fishing net. I drove the boxes of Roosters all the way from Auburn to Elk Grove, about an hours drive, to their new home. We un-boxed them and the guy clipped their wings. They were released in a huge outside pen. I say good riddens noisy roosters!