Chicken Joe

[onarock]

I guess he is now a pet. He started hanging around the property a few months ago and sleeps in the tree in our back yard. He loves to start crowing about 4 in the morning. All he does is walk circles around the house all day scratchin for bugs.

 

[John]

Finally a pic of the infamous chicken joe!!

 

[dmmj]

Any relation to cotton eye joe?
I don't know if I had an animal waking me up at 4 AM it might become dinner.

 

[onarock]

Yup there hi is John. I'll tell you what... that bird has some *****. He stands about 2 1/2 feet and is fearless. My cousin was trying to talk me into catching him, cutting off his comb and taking him down to the **** fights.

 

[dmarcus]

That is cool, he is keeping his territory safe..

 

[yagyujubei]

Careful, chickens can carry coccidiosis, so don't let him go in the torts pens. He looks pretty young. I love the crowing.

 

[african cake queen]

wow! he looks like he owns the place, thats what they do. nice picture. lindy

 

[Yvonne G]

I LOVE Chicken Joe!

 

[Kristina]

He needs 3 or more girlfriends... He is one handsome dude He looks like he has some Onagadori or Yokohama or other Asian blood in him.

 

[ALDABRAMAN]

Nice.

 

[GeoTerraTestudo]

I hope he doesn't bother your torties.

 

[Neal]

lol, do chickens run wild all over the place there? **** fighting legal there?

 

[onarock]

Yes, chickens run wild all over here. **** fighting is not legal, but is VERY popular here. There is always legislation at the state to legalize it.

lol, do chickens run wild all over the place there? **** fighting legal there?

 

[Neal]

Guam has them all over too. **** fighting was legal over there, those things can get pretty ugly.

 

[Edna]

Careful, chickens can carry coccidiosis, so don't let him go in the torts pens. He looks pretty young. I love the crowing.

That is a very pretty rooster!

My understanding of coccidia (and coccidiosis). There are many kinds of coccidia and they occur/are present in the soil. A given area, like a yard, will have a couple dozen types of coccidia in the soil. Coccidiosis is an infection or reaction to coccidia. When we raised chickens at home we fed only non-medicated feed so they would develop an immunity to our local coccidia. We had to watch when adding new adult chickens from other farms because they had immunity to their own set of coccidia, which might be different from ours. The introduction had be gradual so the each group could develop an immunity to the new coccidia.

My Torty's first fecal showed the presence of some coccidia, as would be expected because he had soil and earthworms in his enclosure. He did not have very many coccidia, and the vet was not concerned.

I was just reading that other than toxo-plasmosis, coccidia are species-specific. I wonder if the resident vet would comment on chickens as a health threat to tortoises??

 

[terryo]

I LOVE Chicken Joe! Our Rooster was very territorial, and would chase the mailman down the street.

 

[ChiKat]

Gorgeous rooster!!

Guam has them all over too. **** fighting was legal over there, those things can get pretty ugly.

Ugh HOW can that be legal?! grrrr

 

[Neal]

Ugh HOW can that be legal?! grrrr

Different culture...different standards.

 

[ALDABRAMAN]

 

[Isa]

I am in love with Chicken Joe I am sure he is an amazing pet and I would loveee to have one in my yard

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Guam has them all over too. **** fighting was legal over there, those things can get pretty ugly.

Ugh HOW can that be legal?! grrrr

I totally agree! :-/