Hen doing the wingdance to a cockerel

[Altairsky]

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.

 

[Perris]

Interesting; thanks for sharing.

 

[BDutch]

Great to experience such behaviour. My chickens, all hens, so obviously less interesting, amaze me too at least once a week.
Yesterday, my 3 oldies roosted in the prefab coop half an hour before roost time, and finally 2 hens choose other roost spots for the night.

 

[Tired old Rooster]

I have four hens. My flock dynamic is eerily similar to the TV "Golden girls" from decades ago. I think Betty White would be thrilled to see my Goofy, reprising her role as Rose.

 

[debid]

BTDT. Mine was an EE named Gertrude and although she grew up with the cockerel from 3 days old, she was absolutely convinced that she should be in charge, not him, and she wasn't having him as leader. She would reject his amorous advances and I witnessed her full blown fighting him on multiple occasions, she won every time. She didn't draw blood, she was only interested in keeping him in his place so each time he tried anything resembling assertion of dominance, she'd make him pay for his audacity with her own display of dominance. She had no hormonal problems, had a long and productive laying life. She was just keen on being in charge. After he was removed from the flock, she was the unchallenged leader for many years.