Poll: Which of these does YOUR rooster do?

[CoopBoots]

Does your rooster lie to the girls for a chance at some action? Is he a complete sweetheart? Which of these have you caught your flockmaster doing out in the yard??

(Mine is pretty great, but I only trust him with the hens, not people. He exhibits several behaviors below I consider aggressive, and he's definitely taken a swing at me before!)

 

[Shadrach]

Treacle demonstrating his boot fetish.

 

[Sussex19]

I voted for

Dances/Wing-drops hens
Tidbitting/Calls hens for food
Mates via usual grab/consent squatting
Makes/suggests nests for hens
Approaches you as soon as you are visible
Makes various whistling or screeching warnings for perceived dangers
Beats his wings before crowing

Yes I'm proud of my boys! They are the best to their hens, and bring them to me much of the time, but other then that they don't interact with me much.

 

[Sussex19]

You should add, Goes to fetch hens when they hear the egg song?

 

[CoopBoots]

You should add, Goes to fetch hens when they hear the egg song?

Good catch! I never noticed that behavior until I read about it here and started watching more closely.

 

[Shadrach]

Good catch! I never noticed that behavior until I read about it here and started watching more closely.

If I may, it's an escort call, not an egg song.

 

[CoopBoots]

If I may, it's an escort call, not an egg song.

Ohh shoot. I can't seem to edit the poll wording but I'll work on my terminology. Appreciate the correction!!

 

[fluffycrow]

Well, I have two adult males. Both tidbit, give warning calls, suggest nest sites, respond to escort calls, do the herding shufffle, and sometimes beat their wings before crowing. My older male, does not approach or does any of the behaviours that require a human. He has attacked me in the past, but we are on good terms now. My slightly younger male, is an absolute sweetheart. He will let me give him head scritches (which he will initiate by coming close to me). He will also fly up on my arm. He also tidbits for me, and has done the herding shuffle, but without the crazy leg movements, which I've found I'd more of a form of accepting someone in their space, as I've seen with new hens being added

 

[Ponypoor]

Does your rooster lie to the girls for a chance at some action? Is he a complete sweetheart? Which of these have you caught your flockmaster doing out in the yard??

(Mine is pretty great, but I only trust him with the hens, not people. He exhibits several behaviors below I consider aggressive, and he's definitely taken a swing at me before!)

I lucked out in the Roo department; I got a nice mature Polish Roo last year and he is a gem. The ladies love him, he is hilarious when he suggests nest locations and the ladies ignore him. He ignores people and makes all sorts of chit chat and songs, whistles etc .

I have a number of young Roos - his sons- right now, who are terrors! But he whoops their butts

 

[Kay-T-Hammer]

I voted for

Dances/Wing-drops hens
Tidbitting/Calls hens for food
Mates via usual grab/consent squatting
Makes/suggests nests for hens
Approaches you as soon as you are visible
Makes various whistling or screeching warnings for perceived dangers
Beats his wings before crowing

Yes I'm proud of my boys! They are the best to their hens, and bring them to me much of the time, but other then that they don't interact with me much.

Mine do most of the poll items. But they do not attack me (most of the time. The little one still tries on occasion.). They do, however, approach me from behind. Usually when they want to use my pants/legs as a napkin and they do not wish to be yelled at. Or whenever they randomly want to be petted or fed from the hand.