Rooster Behavior

[greyfields]

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[Lunachick]

Rufus - Well said.

 

[Southern28Chick]

I figure it has to be a dominance thing. I had 2 female mice once and the dominant one would hump the other. My parents have 3 female dogs and one is always humping one of the others. It's so gross to see though.

 

[Rosalind]

Some animals just seem to be wired that way. I remember a couple of bugs in my Invertebrate Zoology class who wanted nothing to do with females no matter how many were put in the cage with them. Watch a herd of dairy cows, you'll see some heifers mounting other heifers.

On the scale of nasty things raising poultry involves, roos mounting each other is pretty low for me. Cleaning out infected wounds, chickens eating each other's barf when they drink too much on a hot day, cannibalism all rank much higher on the yuck scale.

 

[donrae]

This zombie thread was dredged up from years ago. I truly hope the OP has made peace with his roosters.

 

[TheGeekySheep]

Oh my goodness you're right! That makes it even more hilarious! "jedage13in2012" aka "byc lover" resurrected this five-year-old thread just to sling his Hatorade around.

 

[azygous]

I'm going to stick my neck out and try to explain something, hopefully bestow a little enlightenment.

"Gay" is a slang term for animals, of which humans are one of these, that have an orientation or attraction toward other creatures of the same sex. This orientation occurs in about ten percent of all species. It has nothing whatsoever to do with "thinking" or "performing sexual acts" or sick perversions or morality of any way, shape, or form. It's an attraction, sort of like what a magnet does with iron. It is not a decision or a choice, any more than you decide to be a man or a woman. It just is. No one "decides" to be attracted to the same sex any more than you "decided" to be attracted to the opposite sex. It is just the way things turn out.

As for whether anyone else has had a rooster who has had this attraction for another rooster, yes, I know someone with two roosters, one of which wants to mate with the other rooster, and has no interest in the hens. However, the second roo is average in his orientation to hens, and firmly discourages the first rooster from mating with him. Oddly, the two roosters get along extremely well with each other, except for settling this "conflict" every so often.

It's really no big deal.