Rooster is to vague a term of a term for male chicken when discussing behavior. It is OK when age is included. Terms of cockerel, cock and juvenile get closer but still can involve age with birds less than about 18 months. The failure to recognize difference every much contributing to...
Below are aggression categories as I recognize them. I also think maturation process needs to be introduced to discussion where the term ”rooster” is avoided. Also, many of the forms of aggression below are not exclusively the realm of males.
1) Is he just running over, pecking / flogging then...
I have a lot of roosters, more than most have in terms of chickens total so do not have time for fooling around with man-fighters. Many of my roosters also live several years and a few are used for intensive social interaction with human public. That public is populated by people that assume...
Aart, with all do respect sometimes we may be promoting concepts that not agreed upon by all, and may have considerable potential to promote problems that keep getting repeated over and over.