Confused Rooster?

[DoctorGoose]

So, this afternoon, I heard the characteristic 'proud chicken' clucking--the one that they make after laying an egg....

So I ran out to the nesting boxes....no egg....and look around to see who's clucking, and it's my rooster, Calligula!

Never having had a roo before, do they often do this? Maybe he had just "got some"?

 

[greyfields]

My roosters cluck too. It seems that certain hens victory-clucking just set them off. I have ran out there a few times thinking a hen had just laid a boulder; to find my rooster was making the fuss. I think it's pretty common if not universally true.

 

[fopzuu]

The rooster we have clucks when there's something amiss. I usually find him under a shrub hiding. I'm guessing a hawk. He also clucked when a little dog down the street got out and chased him all over the yard! Pretty funny because this roo is 3x the size of that pooch So I think it's a siren, of sorts