But it ain't too late for full-growed roosters to crow!
Slowly it dawned upon Young Pete that it was not considered good form in the best families of Arizona to slay law-abiding roosters without explicit directions and permission from their owners.
It's right late for young roosters to be crowin' that way," he chuckled.
We were wanting the eggs, all right, and those ten or twelve speedy-looking roosters ought to go to the platter without much delay.
There was a lump in his throat as he thought of the injustice of it, of the insults he had patiently borne, of the futility of explanations where grown people, who loved and treasured roosters above everything else, were concerned.
They thought more of roosters than of anything else.
When I saw, a while ago, that there was only a little coming down, not enough for the hens androosters to drink, I thought something had happened.
And how the hens and roosters flocked about grandma when she scattered the feed!
How can I get the young roosters off quick and the hens to lay in winter?
I have fine roosters a year old this April; would you advise keeping them for mating with the same hens next season, or do you advise selling each year and getting fresh stock?
The beaks of roosters are tied, or they are placed in small baskets, so that they cannot stand up to crow.
The most common method of securing wild roosters is by means of a series of slip nooses attached to a main cord or band (Fig.
He insists that Pitache wags his tail and barks in French and considers all cats Protestants, and that Miss Sally Ruth's hens are all Presbyterians at heart, in spite of the fact that her roosters are Mormons.
Something seemed to be wrong in the chicken house, and when Dorothy looked through the slats in the door she saw a group of hens and roosters huddled in one corner and watching what appeared to be a whirling ball of feathers.
Mrs. Hotchkiss says it's because they are roosters and immoral.
All the cold weather has gone to glory; and it's really spring because the roosters crow all night.
In the barn-yards of the little farms scattered around about the town roosters were crowing, hens were clucking, cattle lowing, and horses stamping and neighing, eager for their breakfast.
But the little boy finally prevailed upon the old man to allow 'Tildy to remain, and after a while he put matters on a peace footing by inquiring if roosters crowed at night when it was raining.
Since dat time, dey aint none er de Mr. Roostersbin fool' by dat w'at dey see on top.
Except for many mongrel dogs that attacked us, and the roosters that began to challenge us from every garden, we had not been observed, and, so far as we could distinguish, the approach to the town was totally unprotected.
The moon hung empty and pallid above the cold outline of the hills, and although the roosters were crowing cheerfully, the sun had not yet risen.
The culls are packed in barrels and all kinds of chickens from fryers to old roostershere sojourn together until they reach their final destination, as potted chicken or chicken soup.
The chickens as purchased are grouped into the following classes: Springs, hens, old roosters and (at certain seasons) young roostersor staggy cockerels.
As soon as the hatching season is over old roosters should be sent to market.
The former trouble may be avoided by having a relay of roosters and shutting each one up part of the time.
The second spring the two old roosters from the original purchased eggs are used with the general flock.
A common mistake is to allow a large troop of young roosters to overrun the premises in the early fall.
And that waked the other roosters and they flapped their wings and crowed, and the hens waked, and all the roosters and the hens flapped their wings and flew down to the ground, and began to look about for their breakfast.
All the roosters and the hens and the chickens that were half grown up flew up into the trees when it was beginning to be dark, and they sat on the branches in long rows, and put their heads under their wings and went to sleep.
Sometimes the roosters would fight, but they didn't fight very hard, for they were not the kind that fight hard.
She was a small chicken when the travelling hens and roosters settled at the farm.
Well, one day Page brought home a big white rooster, and when he let it go it climbed up on Page's stack and crowed, to see if there was any moreroosters round there.
A great many roosters were to be pitted that day, and each one was trimmed and gaffed.
The gaffs were fitted, the roosters were placed in the pit and held until both were sufficiently mad to fight, when they were turned loose, and each struck at the same time.
The evil that roosters do live after them, but the good is oft interred with their bones.
Harriet had sacrificed the promising careers of two young roosters upon the altar of this important occasion.
Through the clear morning air I could hear the roosters crowing vaingloriously from the barnyard, and the robins were singing, and occasionally from the distant road I heard the rumble of a wagon.
I jest had time tu see that Jase had got his lions and roosters and crouchants pictered off on the curtain that hung round his seat; and then I jumped into the carriage as spry as a cricket.
At four o'clock, when the guinea fowl were screeching like demons, and had awakened the roosters and the dogs to swell the infernal chorus of a West Indian morning, Rachael sat up in bed and laughed noiselessly.
In society where the sweet amenities of life are monopolized by the young, the aged beau is met by the flaming inscription, "Old roosters not wanted.
It is an advertisement of a poultryman for poultry, in which he says with rough frankness, "Old roosters not wanted.
It used to be a few years ago, what we were going to do with you, but the tables have been turned and now it seems to me that the cemetery gate is the only place not decorated with the legend, "Old roosters not wanted.
If a congregation loses its pastor and commences looking around for a successor, the first thing it does is to print in large letters across the pulpit, "Old roosters not wanted.
The world is all growing and crowing--the roosters are crowing their heads off!
The world is all growing and crowing,--the roosters are crowing their heads off.
You have often started all the roosters in your neighbourhood to crowing, no doubt; even so you can "whistle up" the mystified orioles, who are always disposed to live near our homes.
But screech owels an' jay birds an' er heap mo' 'sides chicken roosters is got speerets in 'em in dese days too.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roosters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
