Rooster behavior

[WildBillHicks]

I have noticed my Rooster makes a specific call when he sees food. It's a signal to the hens to come get it. A lot of times he won't even eat whatever it is, he's just looking after the girls. Kind of neat. I guess this is probably nothing new to you veterans but it was a cool discovery for me. All I had noticed him doing before was mating.


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[Jonaboo 16]

Mine does that to.

 

[nurse_turtle]

Yup. He's a good boy. Some roosters have good manners and others don't. I have a little black Japanese roo that will pick up bits of food and drop it as he's calling the girls. Neither him not my black silkie roo will eat until all his girls have had a chance. I have another that takes his food ands runs!

 

[Jonaboo 16]

My BB red rooster does not even eat it he just lets the girls get it.

 

[jak2002003]

Your rooster is behaving like a real rooster should!

I have 5 roosters at the moment and each one has a very different personality. Most are like yours, they won't even eat treats like mealworms. They will hold them and call for the girls to come get it.

One of my roosters loves to 'mother' the young chicks and 'teenagers'. He herds them around and is very protective of them. So funny to see him in the middle of his group of pupils. He is like their teacher.

My boss roosters loves to do the 'rooster dance' around the hens, dragging his wing and showing off.

I have a 'selfish' rooster. He pushes the girls out the way to get to the treats and eats them down as fast as he can. I never saw him share any. He also likes to trick the younger birds to run to him by calling them like he has a treat......then he will give them a really hard peck on the head...sending them screaming off. He is low down on the rooster pecking order, but he is always pushing his luck, mating with the hens right next to the boss rooster, and pushing to get the feed. He always gets a telling off and is chased off, but he keeps sneaking back!

He also snatches and food off me.....all my others take the treats quite gently.

I love watching all my roosters and chickens interacting. Very relaxing...like watching a fish tank.

 

[Aschenfire]

I have two little boys now, a 19 week old Silkie who does the dance for the girls (not seen him sharing food yet though), and a sweet little 11 week old modern game bantam who is sooooo cute. I let the bantams into the big back yard this evening for a while, and he was softly calling *bokbokbok* to the girls when he'd find a reaaaaallllly nice clump of pretty green stuff! I was proud of him. He just started crowing this week, a few days after the Silkie crowed in the other pen