#BCM

[thafreedomwall]

M27 RWK (Reconnaissance Weapons Kit) clone, the Marines have the coolest service rifles right now, I would probably take this over an URGI.

[kedreeva]

A couple months back, my neighbor wanted to get some Spitzhauben hatching eggs for his wife, so he asked me for help finding some good ones, from a good breeder. So I dug around for a bit, since Spitz are a bit of a rare breed, and found a few options that looked decent. One of them happened to be in Michigan with us, maybe a little over an hour from us, so I arranged to go pick them up in person to avoid the stresses of shipping on the eggs.

I picked up a dozen (baker's dozen, she added a few extra just in case), and a half dozen of the Marans eggs for myself (she gave me a discount because fertility hadn't been tested yet, as long as I promised to report growth/hatch rate and update about what comes out) because she claimed to have good quality and her eggs looked to be decent quality. She was really nice, very chatty, and the eggs looked great in person, too.

12 of the spitz eggs hatched, and 3 of the BCM. The BCM chicks looked great but they were being stressed OUT by the quail chicks they were in with, so I snuck them into the brooder with the spitz when I closed up the neighbor's birds one evening while they were out.

I've visited them a few times since, and they've been looking good, but they're finally to an age where on the BCM you can tell sex- perfect ratio, one rooster, two hens.

Now, I used to keep and breed BCM a long time ago. I had wanted to get into showing (never got around to it for several reasons), and I'd dealt with several lines. My original line that I'd mixed from a couple different people always produced REALLY stellar roosters- big lads with sweet, docile personalities that were 100% ready to die for their ladies, whom they always treated well. For roosters, those are all REALLY important qualities. The ideal is a rooster that treats his ladies well, is willing to fight to the death to defend them if something comes after them BUT--- importantly can tell the difference between a predator and a human who is messing with the hens (picking up, moving, treating w/ meds, whatever). Ideally, if a hen makes a noise of distress, the rooster come BOLTING to her at top fucking speed ready to kick ass, but stops dead if he sees it's just a human. And I HAD that- I used to sell the roosters to folks (SELL them, I never had to give away a rooster) as flock protectors, and I would get people coming back to buy another after their guy died defending the girls while free ranging. It's sad, but it's also one of two reasons to have a rooster.

And I see all the time people posting about their mean roosters, about how to handle roosters that are mean to humans, or people telling others oh the rooster is just young and roosters are mean when they're young and they'll mellow out when they get older, just keep putting up with it. Power through.

NO! There is almost* NEVER a reason to tolerate a nasty rooster- one that's mean to the girls, or to humans. This BCM rooster is only a few months old, but you can already see the purpose that's been bred into him. I picked up one of his girls and she went :( and he came RUNNING over to see what was wrong, looked me up and down and went nah that's cool, and then checked on all the other girls. Just in case. I went to move them from their cage to the big play pen that's set up for them, and I thought oh this is going to be a circus, trying to catch them all. The Spitzhauben were acting insane, like I was trying to kill them by looking at them. I braced the carry bin on the edge of the door, expecting to reach in to (try to) grab each bird and put them in. But no. This rooster walked over, got in, called the others, and they all chilled right out, came over and jumped into the bin with him. He's in the playpen right now just watching over all the others. If someone gets into an argument, he runs over and gets between them, and then checks on them both after. When he lies down, the others come lie down with him. On him.

THIS is what a good rooster looks like. Not in a year, not in two years. Right from the getgo, the instincts are all there. Hormones shouldn't eliminate/supercede this behavior- they shouldn't turn a bird into an asshole. They should instigate a second set of rooster behaviors- dancing/courting, tidbitting, and mating attempts. Running girls ragged, pulling feathers, causing injury, attacking people- these are all poor breeding and/or handling problems. These are things that can (and SHOULD) be selected against when breeding fowl

*The "almost" never is that a breeder starting out may not have a choice when it comes to shitty personalities- they may find themselves having to tolerate the least shitty for a few generations, until the personalities show improvement. In this case, most (good) breeders know better than to dump the wash outs on the unsuspecting, and will instead do hard culls for food or sell to folks raising food or who are aware of the personality problems. In any case any tolerance should be an in-progress tolerance, not an endgame result.

[check-ur-squad]

Fuegoleon Vermillion in Black Clover Mobile: Rise of the Wizard King

[kalolasart]

BC mobile Swimsuit Charlotte

18.09.2024 Birthday girl

[jaycrakhead]

More [BCM] [Secret Agents] [Zora&Vanessa]

Bonus:

He will crash the car in the nearest tree, he is so done- but Zora switch with me please-

[fyodorwybombilazoty123]

shhhhh... she's eeping

[kalolasfantasyworld]

Royals are officially OFF THE COUCH!

@f-oighear, @thoughtfullyrainynightmare what has happened to our squad??? 😭

[thafreedomwall]

[kedreeva]

I celebrated my first anniversary with my dear friend and husband. I finally talked about autism with my sister. I saw the eclipse with my best friends. It was AWESOME.

[check-ur-squad]

Let’s have a party! // BCM

[kalolasart]

Party Kahono

BC mobile

[jaycrakhead]

Zora

Since Zora came out on bcm I've been acting like an animal

[hehedoesntdrawhere]

How can nozel nebra and solid be so mean to her. Like LOOK AT HER. isn't she the cutest little sister?

[blackcardmems]

HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH FROM BCM!! 🖤💚❤️

Remember to celebrate and uplift Black creatives not just now, but ALL the time!!

If you're a Black creator and you have any cool creations to share please show us in your reblogs!! We wanna see art, writing, cosplays, all of it!!!

Additionally, HAPPY FOUR YEARS OF BCM!!!!

Thank you all so much for being a part of this community and celebrating creatives of color with us year round!

Here's to another four more years and a month of celebrating Black Excellence!!

[thoughtfullyrainynightmare]

He is amazing~ ❤️‍🔥

[ravioli-fries]

divider asta is funny looking