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I hear what you're saying, but like. we have had viable eggs from him mating with the hens. Isn't that, like, the most surefire sign of being a rooster, or at least not a hen? It's getting a little bit frustrating to defend the fact that he's not solidly a hen to every new person that replies...

That's what we thought too! We could find nothing online about roosters going broody, but we've seen him sitting on eggs, and when we lift up the nestbox roof, he shrills and puffs up his feathers and chuffs like a broody hen, which is definitely not typical rooster behavior

We've seen him mating with the girls, so he's at least not completely a hen lol

I have a one and a half year old black copper maran rooster, and we've been pretty sure he's a rooster (he's got a rooster tail, and mates with the girls. We got a bloody-insided egg a week or two ago that must've sat under a broody hen for a day two long), but he's...very strange. He's the...