Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

Fun! Another crocheter!

Crafter is more accurate, but I started with crochet

 

[Shadrach]

Me too. Those bites are quite awful and they were pretty high up his body. He must have a lot.

It's those short legs again...

 

[micstrachan]

There she is again!

 

[micstrachan]

What did she get wrong Shad? I hope not the 'contented' noises because I interpret those the same way in my tribe!
I also enjoyed the slo-mo peck on the head.

For one, she's calling a mature rooster a cockerel.

 

[BY Bob]

I’m just going to take one example of this nonsense and that’s the idea that roosters dance for their hens and the purpose of this is to entice the hens to mate with them. It would have helped a little if the women in the video could differentiate between a cockerel and a cock or rooster….nvm.

In all the years of watching chickens I have never, and I mean never, seen a rooster and hen mate after the rooster, or cockerel has done this “dance”. I mean not once, never, zilch, zero, nil, times. It would be reasonable to expect to see mating after the dance if that was it’s purpose say 50% of the time even for a rooster who was a crap dancer wouldn’t it? I suppose I could have watched lots of roosters who couldn’t dance well enough, or perhaps all the hens had headaches. Come on. Evidence. Where is her evidence for this assertion? She’s got a good clip of a rooster trying to mate with a hen who wasn’t interested didn’t she. The rooster chased the hen round the garden ffs. Maybe he should have done a dance!

This so called dance is for herding the hens. A show of dominance if we must use that word.

I’m sure the women is a very nice caring person and all that, but she doesn’t know shite about chickens.

I will back that up. I never once saw Jabber mate with a hen after doing the wing dance and I never saw him do it with his #1 partner Hattie. He was always wing dancing with Lilly or Patsy. The dominance battle between him and Patsy was quite real.

Jabber gives Patsy wing

Patsy gives Jabber a smack down

 

[BY Bob]

It's those short legs again...

That's not funny. I should not laugh at that.

 

[RoyalChick]

For one, she's calling a mature rooster a cockerel.

I did spot that and wondered vaguely if the Brits used the words differently (but remembered Shad and decided it probably wasn't that).

 

[RoyalChick]

That's not funny. I should not laugh at that.

I managed to hold back until you said that.

 

[micstrachan]

I will back that up. I never once saw Jabber mate with a hen after doing the wing dance and I never saw him do it with his #1 partner Hattie. He was always wing dancing with Lilly or Patsy. The dominance battle between him and Patsy was quite real.

Jabber gives Patsy wing

Patsy gives Jabber a smack down

That’s good stuff, Bob!

As I’ve mentioned to Shad before, both Bridge (alpha) and Lucky (middle ranked) have given me a subtle wing. They really just drop the shoulder. Interestingly, they’re a couple of my strongest lap sitters. And Bridge has done it after calling me over, when I approach. I’m not sure what to make of it, as I’m not a chicken, but they seem to sometimes communicate with me as such.

 

[BY Bob]

That’s good stuff, Bob!

As I’ve mentioned to Shad before, both Bridge (alpha) and Lucky (middle ranked) have given me a subtle wing. They really just drop the shoulder. Interestingly, they’re a couple of my strongest lap sitters. And Bridge has done it after calling me over, when I approach. I’m not sure what to make of it, as I’m not a chicken, but they seem to sometimes communicate with me as such.

Jabber never"winged" me. With us it was all out warfare. Here he is coming at me.