But as you can see
It's not false advertising. These two are seriously ticked at each other. The neighboring birds have taken notice as well while the farmer, ready for his morning coffee, has taken leave. Soon, the two are squaring off.
After several tense moments and rude comments tossed back and forth about the others mother,
the first move is made.
White rooster leaps high just as Black rooster comes in for a serious peck to the chest. Two of the Guinea sisters come in for a look. Or are they the Guinea brothers? We don't know for sure, we're had 4 perfectly matching Guineas for years, with no babies ever, so whatever sex they are they are definitely all firing blanks.
Anyway, white rooster comes back to earth.
And Black rooster , without missing a beat lands an excellent shot to his opponents noggin. All other snooping fowl have left the scene now except for the sterile Guineas who having nothing else to do, decide to hang around for round two. Suddenly...
Both both White and Black leap into the air in a majestic fluttering of feathers attempting to peck each other to death mid air! But gravity wins out, they fall to the ground and suddenly lose all sense of time and direction and purpose.
I take advantage of the brief intermission, rush into the feed house just behind them and scatter some feed. Like the pea brained birds they are, they forget what the brawl was about in the first place and commence with breakfast.
If only we humans could be distracted so easily.
It's always difficult to know if one should just leave them to it. I think I might have employed the hose pipe!! A dose of cold water usually helps them to concentrate on other things.
ReplyDeleteI had two get in a bad fight to where I made them both get out of the gene pool. I try to eliminate aggressive behavior and finally I ended up with a rooster that didn't fight and took care of the hens, it is amazing to watch him signal if a hawk fly near and if I give him something to eat he will lay it down for a hen to eat.
ReplyDeleteif syria could be handled this easily!
ReplyDeleteSuch a good example of 'ruffled feathers'!
ReplyDeleteYour title worked for me! I was expecting to see some chicken in a stew pot, however. Good luck with those two bad boys.
ReplyDeleteWhen our two roos Diego and Weenut decided to see who was going to be king of the coop it was a fight to the death and unfortunately Weenut lost out to the much bigger and heavier Diego! We were not home when the dual went down but I did discover the body when I gathered eggs that evening. Wish our birds were as easily distracted....
ReplyDeleteYour new camera got some good action shots.
ReplyDeleteYour title was too inticing to bypass. The photos are great considering the speed at which the feathers were flying. I love it when the photos tell the whole story. Roosters are lucky to be such pea brains, otherwise there would be a much higher rate of post-fight burials. Those two will never know that a little distraction & lack of short-term memory saved their lives.
ReplyDeleteHose pipe with cold water sounds like a good solution to me and could be sprayed from a safe distance
ReplyDeleteRoosters are trouble! I didn't enjoy mine, when they were here! The dose of cold water sounds like a good idea!
ReplyDeleteAs for those lethargic guinea fowl...I learned from my grandparents that the male makes a two syllable call and the females a single one. the boy says buck-wheat and the girl says...chit....at that's the polite version of her call. other than that....maybe candles and wine...
ReplyDeleteWe always figured the guineas with the more upstanding um...combs? funny knobs on top? What are those things called...anyway the ones with the more upright ones were male, the females had ones that tilted back...you got some great shots of the rooster ruckus.
ReplyDeleteYou never fail to crack me up! Cocks will be cocks, I guess!
ReplyDeleteI think one has to have had roosters in order to appreciate this. Animals, particularly chickens are not kind toward one another, especially competitive roosters. We've kept it down to one rooster, which is really all we need for a dozen hens. We've got cockerels and pullets coming up, so we'll be doing some culling soon. We're actually going to change our breed of chicken, which means out with the old and in with one lucky new.
ReplyDeleteWe now have one nice rooster and seven happy hens. The mean one was dealt with earlier this year - don't know why we waited so long but I guess we were hoping he would get nicer! He didn't!! So, he's gone. We had many a fight like yours but they never drew blood. The mean one would always back down surprisingly.
ReplyDeletethank goodness they gave up easily!
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