Can a rooster become a mamma hen?

[CartierChicken]

I so should have brought a camera to the coop. I have the coop slit in 2, and just moved my 5 week olds back in there. They were 2 1/2 weeks when they lost their mother, and have been inside ever since. I have a heater in there. I have also been nursing my poor rooster, as he has been ousted by the new rooster. I decided to put him in with the chicks as he seems so unhappy kept in the house. When I went in to see how everyone was settling in, I found my old rooster on the perch with 2 chicks on him, 2 under his wing on one side, and 2 under his wing on the other side, then on pressed in to him. I could not believe my eyes.

 

[Mom2sixpeeps]

Awe, how sweet!!!

 

[chicken delighted]

sounds like he a great guy. i am going to say yes because i have a bantum rooster named hermie. he is a sweet heart when my broody hens chicks come out for the frist time it is hermie that will jump in the pen and help take care of them he will call them for feed ,protect them along with the hen,walk around the barn yard like a proud parent. he just the best rooster

 

[stargirl]

Oh my gosh! My heart just melted!

 

[mississippifarmboy]

We have a pair of bantams that the hen just hatched 6 out of 7 eggs a couple of weeks ago. Yesterday the rooster had two of the chicks under his wing. The other four were across the coop with Mamma.

What's really funny is they are seperated because this roo fights every other chicken on the farm.

 

[kano]

That is very common in Bantam races, and some araucana roos.

 

[henney penny]

I have silkies and when the babies are to big to all get under mama they get under the rooster

 

[merry hens]

How delightful! I once had a Sebright cockerel who adopted 7 chicks (they were his younger siblings) and never left them.