A rooster that act like a brooding hen! He incubates egg and make voices like a broody hen!

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I have been around chickens my entire life
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, and have never seen anything like that.
 
I have a 1 year old Brahma X Roo that I rescued from the frying pan from a friend. He had way too many roosters, so I brought him home. Now the story behind this particular rooster is that he had been confined in a pen with 3 other large and more dominant roosters all of his life. In other words, he became the "hen," so to speak, and he has the battle scars to prove it.

I am not anywhere close to a "chicken psychologist," but this rooster does the same thing. He sits on eggs and makes the "hen sounds." He actually follows one hen in particular, and as soon as she get's off the nest, he's on it. Sometime over 15 minutes at a time.

I guess my stupidity will prevail, but maybe since he's been treated like a hen, he thinks he's a hen! However, he does exercise his husbandly prerogatives.

Here's a photo of him sitting on a nest.
 
Not at all uncommon for a rooster to pick a nest site and 'call' a hen to that area. The OP's rooster is something that I have NEVER seen in over 70 years of having birds.
 
I have seen a hen that at 4 or 5 years of age transgendered into a rooster because of an ovarian tumor, but in addition to the feather and physical changes, she also acted like a rooster - mating hens and crowing.
 
sourland said:
I have seen a hen that at 4 or 5 years of age transgendered into a rooster because of an ovarian tumor, but in addition to the feather and physical changes, she also acted like a rooster - mating hens and crowing.
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I think that thia is the same here!
 
Bird looks like a gamerooster with a lot of oriental in its background. Also appears dubbed which would give appearance of small comb and wattles. Voice sounds male in regards to pitch although vocalizations consistent with clucking and broody warning growl.

Broodiness I have seen many times involving chicks. Condition is inducable and can be predictable when rooster has a small number of hens in harem. Some penned gamecocks will also adopt chicks where mother lost. It has a genetic component as not all roosters are so capable. I have remember reading an account of Grey (Sonnerats) Jungle Fowl where father takes over brooding when chicks reach the juvenile stage. That could be a retained source or it could have arisen independently through mutation. If gamerooster guess correct the breeding arrangements employed by cockers of the millenia could had selected for such behavior.


See thread below for account I documented. Any of my roosters will do such under conditions male operated.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/882368/what-to-look-for-in-a-broody-rooster
 
Akrnaf2 said:
A rooster that act like a brooding hen! He incubates egg and make voices like a broody hen!
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=960819603962126

In my opinion it could be a hen that have some testosterone problem,,,
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Akrnaf2 said:
A rooster that act like a brooding hen! He incubates egg and make voices like a broody hen!
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=960819603962126

In my opinion it could be a hen that have some testosterone problem,,,
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Maybe it was a hen that had one kf her ovaries damaged. I've seen these thing before. When an overly is damaged, the hen makes testosterone and produces large comb and wattles. Maybe that's the case, I dot know much about it,
 
centrarchid said:
Bird looks like a gamerooster with a lot of oriental in its background. Also appears dubbed which would give appearance of small comb and wattles. Voice sounds male in regards to pitch although vocalizations consistent with clucking and broody warning growl.

Broodiness I have seen many times involving chicks. Condition is inducable and can be predictable when rooster has a small number of hens in harem. Some penned gamecocks will also adopt chicks where mother lost. It has a genetic component as not all roosters are so capable. I have remember reading an account of Grey (Sonnerats) Jungle Fowl where father takes over brooding when chicks reach the juvenile stage. That could be a retained source or it could have arisen independently through mutation. If gamerooster guess correct the breeding arrangements employed by cockers of the millenia could had selected for such behavior.


See thread below for account I documented. Any of my roosters will do such under conditions male operated.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/882368/what-to-look-for-in-a-broody-rooster
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Thanks for the interesting information !
You think that this behavior is breed dependent?
If I had the opportunity I would do a blood hormone concentration screen of
This rooster and compare it to the concentration of hormones in a standard rooster. I know that in mammals the concentration of Oxytocin in the male blood
Influence the male behavior making heme more sensitive and more "motherly".
I wonder if there is a harmon in chickens that change the behavior?
 

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