Rooster in the nesting box

[Candy11]

My pullets have yet to start laying but their boxes are ready. So my daughter goes out to let the girls out of the barn and our Roo is in the nesting box..well resting. Does he need a spelling lesson?......Is this normal?

Candy

 

[lightchick]

Sometimes roosters help coach pullets on laying eggs. Pullets and roos sometimes go through a stage of "playing house", were they pretend to be laying and roosters try to show the pullets how to lay eggs or something.

 

[aart]

When I got my flock of adults and put them in my brand new coop, the rooster settled in to the double nest (the only one he would have fit in) and talked to the girls for a good half hour.....never got in there again to my knowledge. I imagine he was saying 'Hey, girls this is good spot!'. The next day I had eggs.

Got a pic of it, that's my avatar.

 

[Candy11]

Thanks for the responses guys. I'm sure he is doing his job now.

 

[Dark Siren]

My Buff rooster "Hugo" in one of the nesting boxes.

 

[Candy11]

How funny! Okay so my Orpington Roo, Gregory Peck isn't so strange after all. Do you have Orp chickens too? I have 6 Orps + Gregory and I have 3 Sex Links & 3 white Australorps. Waiting for them to begin laying.

 

[lightchick]

My Buff rooster "Hugo" in one of the nesting boxes.

Cute! Welcome to the forum!

 

[JeanR]

You got it! It's part of the courtship. Like the old song..Rosemary Clooney.... "Come on'a my house...my house a'come on!",,the sooner they begin to lay, well......and the hen is most fertile just after laying her egg--he wants to be there, right then!

 

[chickyen]

Do you have other roos? I've heard that some roos act like hens to hide from the other roos because the others are aggressive/ they just want some alone time.

haha