The Rooster Project

Greetings, and thank you again for supporting The Rooster Project.

Springtime seems to bring higher spirits for everybody, and that includes roosters. At our sanctuary in Vermont as well as our satellite refuge for roosters in Maryland, roosters have been stretching their bright feathers in the sun and eagerly exploring the increasingly green pastures and foraging yards. We feel hopeful too, but also soberly aware of how much more work we will need to do to make the world safer for them.

As usual, spring has brought an uptick in calls, from both individuals and other sanctuaries, for help with problematic rooster behavior. When I heard myself answering the same question for the third time in a week, I realized that we needed a quick and easy way to share answers to FAQs widely. And so, while continuing to move toward publication of our long-form handbook on rooster care as well as the online "rooster wiki" for shelters and sanctuaries, we set up an online discussion group that is open not only to shelters and sanctuaries but also to individuals who care for roosters in their homes.

If any of those categories includes you, you can join that group here.

Looking ahead, everything seems to take longer than we estimate (which I guess is not surprising given everything we are trying to do simultaneously) but we do have a hard deadline of the National Animal Rights Conference in late June for the publication of both the manual and the rooster myths and facts brochure, so that we can use the ocassion of that event to directly give those materials to the many other sanctuaries that will be present.

In the meantime, thank you again for supporting The Rooster Project. As a reward to yourself for that generosity, please follow the lead of our fine-feathered friends and take yourself outside into the spring sunshine sometime soon!