A strange contest takes place
here every morning.
The activity kicks off about
daybreak, with the high-pitched
“cock-a-doodle-do” of a rooster
ushering in the morning.
And, almost as if in echo, a
more deeply-pitched crow
bounces off the still, quiet air.
Our local Crow-Off has gone
into another round.
Until recently, only one rooster
voice greeted the dawn’s coming.
Then a newcomer stalked into the
wooded housing development
which adjoins our pasture. A sort
of diminutive, half-pint chicken,
this boisterous fellow is probably
at least partial bantam lineage.
What he lacks in size he makes up
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for in vocal ability.
None of our good neighbors
seems to claim him. We suspect
his original home was on an
adjoining farm, where the' small,
pet flock gradually diminished in
number to this lone rooster. Seek
ing companionship to his lonely
life, he came scouting out the few
remaining chickens - like two -
still jacking around our place.
Our own old, tough, but still
very handsome rooster hasn’t
taken kindly to this neighborhood
newcomer. As they both get to
crowing insults at each other
every morning, our golden
feathered fellow edges farther and
farther out into the pasture, hurl
ing chicken-type insults toward
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his challenger.
“Just try and move in on my ter
ritory!” he seems to be daring the
smaller bird.
Now, he has even more reason
to defend his turf, with the hatch
ing of a nest of a half-dozen fluffy
baby chicks to our sole hen. That’s
what remains from a flock that ten
years ago numbered some three
dozen assorted hens, chicks and
roosters.
Until a week or two ago, there
was a second hen. She, too, rose to
the seasonal instinct to nest. It was
her choice of site that probably
ended her life.
This hen squatted down to
hatch in a round bale feeder on the
sun-baked west side of the old
bank bam. Cows and heifers tear
ing the bales apart to eat continu
ously covered her with hay and
munched their way around her.
And, she was repeatedly evicted
by The Farmer, who removed her
every time he refilled the feeder
with another bale.
The unseasonably hot, dry
weather which has continued to
plague our area the past two
months finally took its toll of at
least one chicken. Steadfastly,
with single purpose, this hen
simply refused to move to a more
sensible spot, or even to leave
long enough to eat or drink. She
literally baked herself in the
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dreadful heat.
Much as we praise and admire
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vior is not always pretty, or even
sensible. Sometimes it seems
downright cruel.
For instance, we recently
intervened in another very natural,
but un-pretty, instinctive behavior
that threatened this year’s Canada
goose hatch at the pond.
Most farm ponds offer hospit
able living conditions for snap
ping turtles. Over the years,
friends and relatives have occa
sionally caught some whopper tur-
tles from ours. These snappers
boast nasty, beak-like “choppers”
that reportedly can bite through a
decent-sized stick and do major
damage to a finger or toe - given
the opportunity.
One of their favorite meals is
newly-hatched ducklings and
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I suspect, if he could pull it off
somehow, our resident rooster
would figure out some way to
introduce his crow-off challenger
to the remaining snappers.
But when roosters swim, we’ll
know the balance of nature has
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goslings, which they grab from
underwater and pull under to
drown and down. When turtles
snagged two of our five baby
geese, within mere hours of their
hatching, we decided the pond’s
balance of nature was hanging
lop-sided against the geese. There
is plenty of other stuff for those
turtles to eat besides the baby
geese.
Of the two turtles we snagged,
one was moved to another body of
water and the other ended up in a
soup pot More remain.
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