Keeping Chickens Newsletter

John Myron and Miss Ruby

This is the story about how I got in the Chicken Business (2 birds) Ha!
But, a true story..........John Knesek.

"The chick is Miss Ruby, and there is a long story behind her. ............

About 1-½ year ago a big white leghorn rooster showed up at our house and started roosting in a tree by our bedroom. He would start crowing about 2:30 am each morning. I asked around the neighborhood and no one claimed him. I tried to trap him, then had my pellet gun aimed at his head, then talked myself out of killing him, I even would sic the dogs on him and try to run over him with my riding lawn mower. . I eventually got used to him so I do not hear him anymore, so now I am feeding him, I also named him "Gallo de Cielo" (rooster from the clouds) (after the Tom Russell song). I have been feeding him since last summer. He would normally eat each morning then walk around our yard and a couple of the neighbor's yards then come to our back yard each day around 4-4:30pm and I would feed him then around 6:30 he would fly up into the tree and roost for the night.