can you disarm a rooster?

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9. thought i would update this-

i ended up with 2 roos out of a dozen chicks. easter eggers. they are the prettiest things i ever saw. they are not that noisy, unless there are strangers about, or me, for whom they crow like mad. they don't have much in the way of spurs, which i would have expected by now (born in april). they aren't mean at all, just skittish.

right now they are in bachelor jail, in a dog crate in the basement, while the hens get their feathers back. they kinda need those for february in chicago.
we intend to raise some chicks, and are looking at playing around a little with breeding for color. i have 2 red hens and a duckwing type with a black head. the roos are alike but not identical. being a muttly breed, i am sure there are some colors hiding in there.
sorry to say, tho, that after they donate their dna, they will be chicken and dumplings. breeding our own chicks, we will have more roos coming.

some nice new pics of the hens here-
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.417550171600001.91989.410796658942019&type=3