submission squat

I’m just curious about my hens and roosters behaviors. I have 12 hens and one rooster, all about 16 months old. The rooster has gotten very very very aggressive with the hens (and my husband and myself but that’s beside the point)… He chases them, grabs the back of the head, and there’s a lot of...

I have a 5 month old silver laced Cochin rooster that was supposed to be a hen when we got him, and it shows. He’s grown up to have a lovely personality and look, but just out of curiosity, is it normal for a rooster to do the submissive squat? Whenever I put my hand on him even very lightly, he...

this is my second attempt at raising chickens..first time was a flock of 30 ,but, now that im retired I just have 5 little hens that are more pets than anything. we live in a small town so I have neighbors and cannot own a rooster..this spring I accidentally got an unsexed polish bantam..I was...

I’ve seen this question asked several times, and almost always it turns out the ‘rooster’ was in fact a hen. I am 100% sure mine is a rooster, he is full grown (32 weeks), full comb, significantly larger than my hens, and has never laid an egg. Since we have a commercial table egg laying...