It's always interesting and amusing to observe the flock dynamic.
When you think you've seen it all, you still find something new.
The protagonist of this interesting behavior are:
Kiwi: She's around 1 year old, started laying at 4 months and hatched her first chicks at 5 months old, a very good mother.
Caruso: he's a 7 months old cockerel, he will replace his father when he's mature enough.
Caruso and Kiwi are in the sidewalk in the picture below, their father is the CL rooster in the distance, the salmon rumpless bird in the grass is their mother Peach.
Caruso is trying hard to impress the girls doing everything a good gentleman does. Wingdancing, tidbitting, looking for good nesting spots. However the girls are still dad's girls and only a few morally loose hens will submit to him for mating.
This morning Caruso found a large earthworm. He called the hens and Kiwi was the only one to give him attention. Kiwi carefully inspected the treat, while caruso did the wingdance.
At that point Kiwi wingdanced back to the cockerel, ate the earthworm and brutally pecked Caruso in the back of the head.
Then Caruso and Kiwi had a standoff you normally see between roosters, where Caruso was completely still, keeping the head low in a submissive posture while Kiwi was walking around him dominantly.
When you think you've seen it all, you still find something new.
The protagonist of this interesting behavior are:
Kiwi: She's around 1 year old, started laying at 4 months and hatched her first chicks at 5 months old, a very good mother.
Caruso: he's a 7 months old cockerel, he will replace his father when he's mature enough.
Caruso and Kiwi are in the sidewalk in the picture below, their father is the CL rooster in the distance, the salmon rumpless bird in the grass is their mother Peach.
Caruso is trying hard to impress the girls doing everything a good gentleman does. Wingdancing, tidbitting, looking for good nesting spots. However the girls are still dad's girls and only a few morally loose hens will submit to him for mating.
This morning Caruso found a large earthworm. He called the hens and Kiwi was the only one to give him attention. Kiwi carefully inspected the treat, while caruso did the wingdance.
At that point Kiwi wingdanced back to the cockerel, ate the earthworm and brutally pecked Caruso in the back of the head.
Then Caruso and Kiwi had a standoff you normally see between roosters, where Caruso was completely still, keeping the head low in a submissive posture while Kiwi was walking around him dominantly.
