is this nomal?????

[RedDrgn]

Reading this makes me wish my neighborhood allowed roosters! I never knew they could be so kind and loving toward the hens. Often times the only stories I hear about them are bad and how they "break the eggs in the nesting boxes" or "are so aggressive toward visitors and the other chickens". This really shocked me- I never knew this!

Ours will go into the nest boxes, sit, and call to the girls (like he does when he finds a treat for them) while he stamps down the nest box materials and keeps sitting and then spinning in it. It's hilarious, because he really doesn't fit well in the boxes with the big tail and just looks like a big ruffled mess when he wedges himself out. He his aggressive towards strange humans, too, but we don't mind that since he's never out when we have visitors that are actually welcome.

 

[donrae]

Sounds like a good rooster, for starters anyway. Mine will often pick something up and taste it, then put it down and call the girls. As stated, my roosters rarely eat treats, they call the ladies for them.

 

[coffeychicks]

This is so good to hear my first rooster killed a hen he became dinner 2 one would run the girls off of a treat everytime he became aggressive to the hens and us he became dinner. But to see this one do this was a shock to me. Mind you I thought it was cute

 

[chooks4life]

Quote: They can be wonderful pets like any other. Never believe those who say roosters are naturally violent. Keep what you want, breed what you want, and that is what you will get! It really is that simple, even with mixed breeds. I often have a 50:50 ratio of roosters to hens all free ranging together, and none of the boys fight, none of the girls bully eachother, none of the chooks kill babies, none of them are violent to eachother or people or our pets either.

The hens don't get 'overmated' as some phrase it when a rooster is too rough or the hen's feathers are weak and showing she's not at top health; people will use many reasons as to why roosters are violent or hens kill babies or whatever the negative behaviour is, but the reality is at the end of the day they are how they are because they were bred that way and then trained that way by their environment. Expect and demand the best from your poultry, don't accept vicious animals that damage you or others, and you can have the flock you want. Once you move to where you can have a rooster, of course, lol!

My roosters like to find new nests for the hens and don't break any eggs in the nests as they shape them for the girls; they are very kind to the hens and each rooster is with whatever hens he is with because they chose him, not because he was all there was available. This helps there be no fighting; each is satisfied with their chosen mates. Hens swap roosters with no fuss on anyone's part, some hens like to spend each breeding season with a different rooster, whereas some other roosters and hens want to mate for life. Each rooster has that one girl he thinks is irreplaceable and they get depressed and don't recover if that one dies, despite having so many others available. Since they often possess great instincts for finding their best genetic match letting them choose tends to give good outcomes in the offspring. Good roosters are a joy, violent ones a nightmare. I hope you never keep a bad rooster thinking he's normal and as good as it gets when there are so many great boys being culled for want of a good home. They can be excellent fathers, they will even snuggle the babies like a hen; I had one rooster who had eyes on a certain hen, and he wooed her by getting her babies to bond to him even though they were a week old so already bonded to her. He was just a good provider and they knew it. He would call and the babies would fly across the yard to him, their mother running anxiously behind, forgotten! lol. She had her own broody cage so he would wait outside it in the mornings until I let her out too. Good mothers get attached to their own cages and even when not brooding or mothering can be offended when I let another hen use the cage for her bubs, lol.