When no longer in possession said plumage, they tend to hide in shame.
We became aware of this quite by accident. Remember the mention of "Crazy Eddy," the insane and unbelievably aggressive Polish rooster? He would fly at you from out of nowhere and spur indiscriminately...he tore more than one pair of jeans, and left a couple of scars behind. Several years ago, Ellie May was trying to defend herself from one of his attacks and inadvertently grabbed a handful of tail feathers, which were then removed--technically BY Crazy Eddy, because of his screaming, flapping display of roosterness.
Once his fanny was featherless, he hung out in the doe barn for a couple of weeks, rather than strutting around the coop yard forcing all other living beings to bend to his evil will.
It was a lovely and peaceful couple of weeks, as i recall.
Somehow, the dogs seem to be aware of the effect that the removal of tail feathers have on the roosters. Ruby tends to employ this technique very effectively on an as needed basis. Every once in a while there will be a rooster that gets out of line, and we will find a pile of feathers at the location of the "final straw" offense. She never hurts the roosters, just pulls their feathers, and the roosters then give her the appropriate respect, and a wide berth.
Now, this is third party hearsay...i did not actually witness the following, but Ellie May did see it, and i trust her word.
It seems that a rooster was harassing The Bob's the other day. The Bob Formerly Known As Isabell instigated a plucking party, and was joined in short order by the other Bob's in emasculating the offending rooster.
Said rooster has not been seen since.
Hmmmmm, am thinking we could solve many problems if we could just figure out how to pluck a few hiney's in a certain District.
Perhaps i should put Ruby on the project.
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