photograph by Audrey Pavia
I helped a fellow deliver a snowy Araucana cock , Drumstick , and my neighbors adopted him .
When one of my colleagues at work secernate me he had a friend with a cock he did n’t experience what to do with , I recognise I was in trouble . This admirer keptreptiles , not bird , and somehow terminate up with this crybaby . He had no clue how to take caution of him , my colleague enjoin . So , of line , I had to get regard .
So a match of nighttime ago after work , I drive to the reptile hombre ’s place to take a facial expression at this rooster . I was on the QT hop it was a biddy that I could just deliver and add to my spate . It did n’t take long to bring in that even though the guy kept snake and lizard , he knew the conflict between a rooster and a biddy .
A white Araucana , the rooster was huddled in a Have - A - eye humane trap when I saw him , with no food for thought or water . All rational intellection leave me at that moment . All I knew was that I had to help the cock . I had no idea what I was break down to do with him since , my two roosters scantily got along with each other , never mind an outdoor rooster .
When I got home , I put the rooster in an empty poultry hutch I had in my yard just for such occasions . It was dark-skinned out , so he did n’t eat the food for thought I left for him , but I knew he ’d devour it in the aurora .
The next day , I racked my mastermind seek to fancy out what I was going to do with this guy wire . He was a rare Araucana . Perhaps someone on my local chicken message dining table would need him ? I posted something , but all I got was compliments for good luck . I would involve it since cock are so hard to place .
Then it dawned on me . Maybe our next - door neighbors would take him . A wonderful animal - make love couple , they had a duet of free - roam Formosan duck they prevent as deary . Maybe they ’d like a cock to hang out with them .
Sure enough , my neighbors quickly say yes to my go . The hubby narrate me he would issue forth over that even to get the cock and would come after my stern ordering to keep him bound to a coop for a few days to get him to settle in .
I assumed I would be home to aid the new rooster owner retrieve his chick from my shanty , but seems he was too eager to hold off . Instead , he enlisted the services of my married man , Randy . hold and raise in Manhattan , Randy ’s chicken - handling skill are n’t the greatest . My neighbour was born and raised in downtown L.A. , and also had absolutely no crybaby - handling skills . So I was n’t surprised when I learned that the cock got past them pretty quick once they opened the hovel door .
“ He flew at us and then ran off , ” my husband later explain .
The rooster spent that night roosting in a George Herbert Walker Bush . The next morning , Randy and I cornered him . He was delivered to our neighbors , who right away named him Drumstick .
Every morning , Drumstick is crow like crazy when I go outdoors to permit my flock out of their coop to roam the curtilage for bugs . I get a warm tactile sensation whenever I hear him , knowing he ’s in a adept home because I just could n’t aid myself .
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