rooster behavior

Hello. Has anyone else had sudden, and violent pecking of all hens from one rooster? We have one barnevelder rooster, 1 barnvelder hen, and 3 naked neck hens. This is the second winter in southeast Michigan with them since they were chicks. As of a couple days ago, when the temperatures have...

Hi lovely people! Quick question. I farm sit for a wonderful lady that’s got a bunch of chickens and roosters that all roam together in the barn, however not once *knock on wood!!!!!!!* have any of her roosters shown aggression towards me except for the two turkeys when I bring a scoop of feed...

Not long after waking up I went out to count up the chickens as last night I heard one make a strange noise. They're all accounted for but while I crouch down to pick up a stray egg off the ground, Mr Frizz flew up onto my shoulder. He's normally scared of me and wants nothing to do with me. I...

Hello, We have an Ayam Cemani who we thought was a hen but has recently started crowing. Our chickens are only 2.5 months old is this typical? It doesn't crow the full cock a doodle doo, it's more of a half crow. Is this how they first start? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here is a...

I have a 14-week-old buff laced Polish that just started crowing a few days ago. His first time was in the afternoon right after trying to mount a pullet. He crowed about 5 times in a row (each getting better). It was loud, but not horribly loud. He crowed when my husband went outside the next...

So I started with a nice flock of ten straight-run Lavender Ameracauna chicks this Spring. But then I found some adorable black copper marans... and some speckled Sussex... and some other color americauna, and TSC had $1 clearance RIR and golden comet chicks, and then an elementary class needed...

I hope this is the right place... Last year when I was 17, I was given 4 baby chicks, 3 female and 1 male, to take care of as a way of easing my depression. I bonded with my rooster the most and love and favor him the most despite his rooster instincts kicking in/becoming more aggressive at...

Hi guys!! So, I have a quick question. We just figured out that one of our EE/Ameraucana chicks is actually gonna be a roo, so we wanted to know how quiet they typically are. I get that all roosters have different personalities, and Archimedes is actually really sweet as far as petting and...

Hello BYC! So-- I've been waiting to post about this for awhile now because I didn't want to jinx it! But I finally think I can share my story: I ended up with only 2 hens from an original 6 last April. I proceeded to get 6 more chicks and hatched 2 'legacy' chickens of my own (between March...

My Cockerel Crow About On 3:30 Am Daily And Hr Made My 2nd Cockerel Crow Also ..He Crow Like Insanely Pls Anyone Help ..I let them sleep in dark , put a circulation for air with ceiling fan (temperature is hot) plssssssssss guys my neighborhood complained alot

Please give me your feedback about your experiences with those beautiful, protective and zany Roosters - having more than 1, adding more, what you've done and how you've managed. Although I've had experience with various birds, I'm fairly new to the Chicken World. I love my Roos dearly, they...

Wondering if anyone has had similar situation. I had a flock of 7 hens and 1 roo. All was peaceful for the first year and Juan Carlos Hathcock Santana (roo) was a perfect gentleman and flock protector. Their first adult spring came and all but two hens went broody. The non broody ladies got bare...

We have 4 Buff Orpington hens and 1 BO rooster. While Stubs, the rooster, is extremely friendly (with me anyway), he has a fit whenever I clean out the coop. He watches me closely as I'm cleaning it out. Then, when I'm finished, he will go into the coop and lay his chest to the floor, raise up...

My plymouth rock rooster Reggie who has just turned 1 is a sexed up demon. His girls have lost their feathers from around their necks from when he jumps on (feather loss is not mites or lice btw, I've had them checked. This aggressive behaviour be seems to be putting the egg layers off as well...

My rooster, hades, had been lonely after his brother left him to go with all of my other chickens. I had tried to get them together but it didn’t work. I took out a gentle hen who was a golden laced wyodnette hen. The two bonded and he never mated with another hen and took extremely good care of...

We had a fox attack a couple nights ago and luckily all my hens survived, but just in case we repaired all the fences and nearly doubled their height (we think he jumped over). We had also heard that cockerels can also protect the hens so we thought it best to get one. We’ve had him two days now...

We recently gave away our Star Spangled Hamburg because he was spurring and scaring me, as well as attacking some of the sweet hens we have. But our hens are confused and broody even without an egg underneath them. They have been pecking each other and making very loud noises and very anxious...

Since the coons wiped out my flock, I am left with ONE hen and my a$$hole rooster Cogburn. (I also have 2 rabbits in pen, it’s large.) I got 6 new pullets yesterday from my neighbor. I use “pullets” loosely since some of them do look like they may be cockerels. He said they are abt 12 wks old...

Ok so this guy is 3 months old. And he actually acts a lot like a hen. He is a fravolles. He likes to sit in a nesting box with the the fravolles hen behind him like a lot. he will a lot of times be in the nesting box and she will be out of it still close by. The other hens pick on him and his...