Random Rooster Questions/chicken psychology

[MROO]

I'm just glad there is a reason iv'e been smelling BO.
Iv'e done the self sniff more than I care to admit.
That ment a guy in dire need of deodorant is in my coop a whole lot or there is a bear that smells like Coney island close by.
I wonder if having another male around turned up his volume?

Doesn't it always? ... No, wait-a-minute. That's for "peoples." My bad!

 

[Duckfarmer1]

Question 1: Has your roosters been rolling around in anything smelly?
Question 2: Put some hot pick spray on your roosters. The hens will not like it. You won't either, so be careful not to spray near your face.
Question 3: Maybe this hen is the feather picker or she is a certain color that he don't like. My chickens are afraid the color orange.
Hope this helps

What is hot pick spay.. I asked on here before about my roosters neck and bumm but people thought it was a hard molt but we’ve seen them pick. And it’s not just one hen. Maybe he’s too loud..lol

 

[Chickassan]

Yeah there is a decent age gap between these.
Negan is a 2017 and Prince is this year's stinky boy.
Man, I think back to all those times i'd just take a big snort of his chick self and love it.
He smelled like warm laundry.
Those days are over, long live king chili dog.

We have three cockrels in one flock and for in the other. They are all around the same age though. They become roos in February and March. Things may get stinky as the age progresses.

 

[Kris5902]

I don't usually cuddle the roosters here but for your sake I've been sniffing the odd rooster as the opportunities arose.
None of those I've sniffed ( they have not been impressed by the sniffing I might add) smell very strongly but they do smell differently to the hens.
I'll do further investigation when the peck wounds on my nose have healed.

Appearance is very important for the average rooster. I have had one, or two who were a little less diligent about bathing and grooming, but I haven't had a rooster have his tail stripped by domineering hens yet. I would be hard pressed to decide if any change in demeanor was due to the indignity of being bullied by a hen,
or his actual appearance.
However, going by the expression on young Cillins face in the picture below if you asked him if his tail feathers mattered that much I imagine he would respond with something like 'would you be happy looking like this'.
I should point out that no animals were hurt in conducting this investigation and if you want to know what happened, ask the weasel.
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Hope the weasel got the sharp end of his spurs! Poor guy looks a lot like my Mr. Eyebrows does... sad. Though, if he lost them going up against a weasel and he’s still here to look depressed than he did a great job! Beautiful Boy BTW, even minus his tail.

I will add that the oldest male has much, much worse BO than his son.
There is nothing slight about his scent, he's a clucking hot dog stand.

Oh my... @Chickassan you and @MROO have me in stitches!

 

[Kris5902]

What is hot pick spay.. I asked on here before about my roosters neck and bumm but people thought it was a hard molt but we’ve seen them pick. And it’s not just one hen. Maybe he’s too loud..lol

You can buy products designed to help prevent pecking/feather picking. They are those sorts of things. It’s a topical liquid that is supposed to smell or taste bad to the chickens doing the pecking. IMO not worth the $. I initially bought it for a pecking issue in my cockerel pen while growing out my leghorn cross cockerels for the freezer (hoping they would get bigger before they got too violent, they didn’t).

So far none I tried have been very effective, so I didn’t even bother this time. I Just separated him, let him heal up on my coffee table in the living room for a few days in front of the heater. Once he was feeling well enough to get off the table and start exploring (and crowing a bit more robustly in the morning, traumatizing my cats) I put him back in with the girls and so far have not had a repeat.

As an aside, my boy was also molting when the tail plucking occurred, but it was a “rip out every single tail feather” situation and he bled a lot. I’ve got a lot of molting birds right now, but only this one issue. And it was more a dominance thing I think. You might want to try pinless peepers on the feather pickers? That would have been my next step, had the boys not been headed towards the freezer already.

 

[Aunt Angus]

This whole thread has me cracking up! I have two boys, but they're still too little to have a lot of testosterone, and we are having a "wind event" here in Cali at the moment, and I am not keen on going outside with the 65mph winds if I don't have to. I'll give 'em a sniff later. They like to be held just before bed... spoiled little things.

But I have a thought about this:

there’s no cute rhyme like “happy wife, happy life” for husbands that I know of...)

What about "happy man, happy clan?" or "happy hubby's a lil tubby?"

 

[Kris5902]

This whole thread has me cracking up! I have two boys, but they're still too little to have a lot of testosterone, and we are having a "wind event" here in Cali at the moment, and I am not keen on going outside with the 65mph winds if I don't have to. I'll give 'em a sniff later. They like to be held just before bed... spoiled little things.

But I have a thought about this:

What about "happy man, happy clan?" or "happy hubby's a lil tubby?"

Maybe I should try to keep my hubby a little less happy then? He’s got a little beer baby thing going on we don’t have enough people in our household for “clan” to really work, but the other farmer does have a family of 4, so maybe...

 

[Chickassan]

@Kris5902 Hon I see that you wear glasses, just how blind are you?
Im pretty freakin blind myself so other senses are better than id like.
My nose absolutely hates me.
I can smell the dumbest things, like BO on a rooster.
I feel for you haveing so many and im envious to the people who have noses that aren't jerks.

 

[Kris5902]

@Kris5902 Hon I see that you wear glasses, just how blind are you?
Im pretty freakin blind myself so other senses are better than id like.
My nose absolutely hates me.
I can smell the dumbest things, like BO on a rooster.
I feel for you haveing so many and im envious to the people who have noses that aren't jerks.

I attribute it more to quitting smoking two years or so ago, and moving out of the city. -1.75 in my right eye and -3 in the left, with a slight astigmatism and a freckle on the left as well. Granted the one boy is pretty darn stinky... compared to the rest and all things considered! They are all about the same age, so I can’t blame age for the stronger scent on him. And the number of Roosters is somewhat by choice, I’m working on a breeding program and growing the flock. 79 chickens and counting

 

[Chickassan]

I was trimming spurs when I sniffed Negan.
I had him directly under my nose.
I have never smelt anything closer to a male armpit that wasn't one.
I even made my hubs sniff him so id seem a bit less like a weirdo.
Im going to feel for you, after a freaking rooster made my nose run iv'e got no choice.

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I attribute it more to quitting smoking two years or so ago, and moving out of the city. -1.75 in my right eye and -3 in the left, with a slight astigmatism and a freckle on the left as well. Granted the one boy is pretty darn stinky... compared to the rest and all things considered! They are all about the same age, so I can’t blame age for the stronger scent on him. And the number of Roosters is somewhat by choice, I’m working on a breeding program and growing the flock. 79 chickens and counting